Short Films

Short Films

Short films created by award-winning independent mediamakers from around the world.

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  • Mood

    Mood highlights mental health and its issues. A young lady with dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder struggles with herself.

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  • Choco-Ache

    When a die-hard chocoholic suffers from a bothersome toothache, she faces a tough decision between her health and chocolate. While learning the hard way to break old habits, will she be able to break free from her addiction?

  • Liminality

    Matthew Caudwell finds himself trapped in a labyrinth of never ending hallways. As he walks, Matthew finds there is a shadowy figure that is following him. He rushes through the maze of infinite hallways in a desperate attempt to get out. Only when Matthew gives up hope and accepts this place, is...

  • Last Hand

    Consumed by his weakness, a gambling addict loses everything he has. Even then, he still finds it impossible to give up his addiction.

  • Boogie

    A kid is duped into summoning dancing ghosts that want to wreak havoc on his high-school dance.

  • Forbidden Love

    Devonte and Senamika are an interracial couple who have their love challenged due to cultural and racial differences.

  • Nature Made Multivitamins

    Inspired by American Psycho, Joe Goldman religiously follows Patrick Bateman's morning routine to perfect himself in every way possible but forgets to take his multivitamins.

  • Never Silly

    A young woman hides in an empty classroom away from classmates, teachers, and friends. She is at the end of her rope and she makes a dramatic decision. When another distraught student storms in looking for a place to hide, their relationship will teach them something important about themselves a...

  • Speaking Of These Things

    Laura and Elena are two friends who know each other very well, but they have realized that this is not enough. In recent years, they have drifted apart and lost the confidence to speak candidly about what really matters to them.

  • Kid Chocolate

    In a world plagued by the harsh realities of the streets, five young boys forge an unbreakable bond as they strive to rise above their circumstances. Guided by two seasoned ex-fighters, they embark on a path to transform their lives. However, the challenges they face to protect the children from ...

  • Broke Down Drone

    Poverty, death and hopelessness is all that can be expected in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Chicago. For Roc and DeVontae, on the brink of potential stardom, the opportunity to escape all three is within reach, if only...

  • Wild Birds

    “Wild Birds” takes a poetic approach in raising awareness to some of the main issues concerning Latinx communities: home, forced immigration, and “belonging”. It takes place in Highlandtown (and its surrounding neighborhoods), known to be one of the most culturally rich areas in Baltimore that pr...

  • La Desaparición De Eva | The Disappearance of Eve

    Eva and Sofia, two teenage friends, meet again after eighteen years.

    Behind their backs looms a traumatic past when Eva disappears at the age of sixteen, without giving any sign of life until now.

    Eva, unsure of her own memories and of herself, decides to accept Sofia’s invitation to her cabin ...

  • Running Star

    Afraid that her success and freedom may have all been an illusion, a young woman, endlessly repeating the same enslaved history of her ancestors, finally breaks away.

    A cautionary tale of self and societal oppression and the cyclical/intergenerational trauma of our past and present. It’s “Goldil...

  • Split Ends

    Rosa is an exhausted mother of a newborn baby and an owner of a village hairdressing salon. One day, a beautiful young widow Ines returns to the village and asks for a job in the salon. The return of Ines stirs the village, and also Rosa's baby who cannot stop crying. Rosa is spiraling into the p...

  • Ter Chono. A Mongolian Story

    The thirteenth century finds more than half of the world known under the rule of the Mongol hordes. From southern China to the near border of Vienna, nothing seemed to stand in the way of these terrible steppe warriors. However, the struggle for power and the desire of the great Kublai Khan, the ...

  • Still Got It

    A drama/comedy about a group of HBCU majorette alumni who try to get back together to perform at their annual college homecoming game.

  • Tsunami

    A marriage is tested when a secret is revealed while the couple have yet to come to terms with a recent death.

  • Fried Hard

    Love Well Done | A 1970's love story about a young black couple chasing their dreams in a city of madness. History, black love, social commentary, laughs and more.

  • 3.15am

    Every night at 3.15 a.m., a thud sound of shovel from under the bed begins to haunt a man. Perplexed with the sound and other happenings around him, he suspects that his wife is haunting him. But night after night the happenings intensify until he decides to deal with the situation. On the final ...

  • Africa, USA

    Africa, U.S.A. follows Naomi, a young 25-year-old discovering herself, as she explores Igbos Landing, an area where Igbo descendants decided to rebel and where African descendants built the historical Harrington School; Oyotunji Kingdom- a real Yoruba Village in South Carolina; and, Africatown lo...

  • The Source 1996

    A saturation diver discovers an old sea chest at the bottom of the underwater oil rig in the southern Caribbean Sea and carries the chest away with her. To her surprise, the chest brings unforeseeable trouble for her manager on the ship.

  • Love Is A Losing Game

    Ramona, a somber spirit, has her (after)world rocked when she falls for a living man.

  • Peat and Patty

    A fun, comedic short story of environmental scientist Patty and, her parrot, Peat striving to complete an experiment that could potentially solve the environmental condition of their world.

  • Mitja Lluna I L'estel

    "Mitja Lluna i l'Estel" captivates through a handcrafted short film, blending Al-Andalus' symbolism. Using 2D pencil animations, it unfolds in Granada's Alhambra. A young woman's initiatory journey unfolds against a backdrop of migrating storks, desert scents, and Andalusian winds. Souls and star...