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A pair of feuding raccoons, having found shelter from a winter storm, receive an unexpected guest.

A fake documentary-style film submitted to the Gimme Truth! 2026 Competition at the True/False Film Festival in Columbia Missouri. “I Blame Chalamet” recounts Luke’s awful first date in high school that ended in ice cream induced vomit all over the date’s car. The premise of the movie is to determine whether or not they are telling the truth- is this story fiction or did Luke really have to live through that experience?

Jade reflects on a relationship from a different time

Without the lifeline of communication, four immigrant families find life in America full of obstacles. As they persevere, pursuing the simple goal of learning English, they cross paths with Americans eager to help, form lifelong friendships, and discover a new sense of belonging.

This cheeky short conjures the paranoid sensation we feel when there’s a fly buzzing around the room, but offers a surprising resolution to the issue.

An 18-year-old girl, Vanessa, spends an evening with her ex-lover, Maleek, while struggling against abuse.

A boy and a girl wonders around a cold lac with a radio poem.

Claire Ghiringhelli, a Swiss Paralympic athlete, faces sacrifices and challenges in pursuit of her dream to represent Switzerland in rowing at the Paris 2024 Paralympics. The documentary captures her dedication, physical and mental struggles, and the determination that drives her to overcome every obstacle on the path to the most significant achievement of her career.

Can we keep something as it was, or are we clinging to what must inevitably vanish, despite our efforts to preserve it? "tempus fugit" wrestles with this question, through the exploration of vacant spaces: the filmmaker's family home — vacant after her grandmother's recent passing, a cryonics facility where the dead are frozen for possible revival, and in a composting bin, where worms decompose organic matter. Playing with horror, not as a genre, but as a method, the film contemplates the tensions, and possible harmonies, between rot and preservation.

A thermodynamic melody amidst the machine and the heartbeat, days spent in shadow as shadow, with the streets empty at dusk, and the blue glow of endless day upon us.

A collection of things drawn sequentially in a mini sketchbook, hoping they animate. Each drawing is smaller than a centimeter.

The Phenakistoscope is an animation toy. A Flower Keester Cop is just like that, but with flower power.

Sweet Dreams is an animation film exploring psychological states of transformation.

As his relationship and family structure falls apart, Ben struggles to connect with anyone in his life while spiraling into alcoholism and isolation.

Revisiting lost images and moments. Edited from unused footage shot between 2023-25.

MEMORIES IN SILENCE In an attempt to preserve the memory of sound, Richard Hill visits and records the sounds of the places he is most afraid of losing.

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A documentary short film about a Chinese Medicine clinic standing over 21 years in business, and the fundamentals of Chinese Medicine.

"Asian Adoptees in Dialogue: Notes to Ourselves" is a conversation series exploring the unique experiences of Asian adoptees directly from their point of view through a series of honest dialogues, elevating an authentic and often unheard perspective of our community in a journey for belonging.

The Jovial Pals are shown in a series of shots to the theme of a song by “Evil Rabbit”

An animated short inspired by a long-abandoned student film draft, resurrected nearly a decade later. Russ has spent years consumed by the legend of the Horseman — a serial killer who stalks the city behind a grotesque horse mask. What began as curiosity has hardened into obsession, isolating him from the world around him. When Russ finally uncovers a lead that points to the killer’s hidden lair, the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur. Joined by his loyal friends Isaac and the enigmatic THUNDERBIRD, Russ descends into a confrontation that is as psychological as it is physical. As long-buried fears surface and the truth behind the Horseman comes into focus, Russ must decide whether solving the mystery will bring closure… or complete the very story that has consumed him.

An animated short chronicling the potential exit of the human body.

"Wow look at all of that snow." - QV

When Delilah takes on a new case, she is drawn to Sophie's world. Recently found from an unknown cult - how dangerous could she be?

Community members of a mining town in Appalachia recall their heritage and look forward to the ever-changing future.

Lauren is excited to see her best-friend. She is observed in the time which precedes this.

Animated romance featuring cutlery

Hoʻomalu ʻĀina Maui follows students from Kīhei Charter School as they partner with Kīpuka Olowalu on wildfire mitigation and native planting along Olowalu Stream. Through interviews with students, their teacher, Kīpuka Olowalu staff, and a PhD candidate collaborating on the project, the film highlights the importance of blending cultural knowledge, scientific research, and hands-on stewardship. This student-made documentary celebrates the power of youth learning and working alongside their community to protect and restore the Olowalu watershed.

Nestled in New Jersey ‘s coastal marshes, a fabled research center has quietly tracked the marine life nearby. Now with water levels rising around them, these scientists face a new and unnerving subject to study: themselves.

In his debut comedy special, Evan Hull captures a glimpse of his world from the perspective of a "well-adjusted" 28-year-old. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, and now living in Chicago,he tells tales of erotic dolls, drunk wrestling his own father, and other chaotic anecdotes told from the perspective of a middle child in a far too supportive Jewish family. Filmed at the Laughing Tap in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Evan has shown that while this may be his first special, it will not be his last.

A group of friends try to set off on a camping trip. After a series of mistakes leaves the group stranded in the woods, they find themselves needing to go to lengths never before imagined in order to get out alive.

A jogger is recruited to save a tense birthday dinner on fragile pretenses.

Langely Horsebottom is an aspiring basketball player and showcases his talents on film.

Fragments

A group of friends start to notice strange happenings while watching a movie. | Winner of the 2026 Michigan Student Film Festival Honor Award

A new customer can’t decide if he wants the single or the double.

Pioneering Asian and Native Hawaiian marine scientists grapple with questions of belonging as they confront the long history of exploitation in coral reef research. Their work questions who holds authority in science—and what is lost when indigenous perspectives are dismissed. Grounded in the Hawaiian concept of kuleana — a sacred reciprocal responsibility between people and place — they are building new research models that prioritize the needs of local communities.

Carson is haunted by every mistake she's ever made, by the addictions she harbors, by the person she became, and now by a supernatural being beyond comprehension. A being who is only after one thing: her. Even if she escapes him, how can she escape herself? Can you escape your fate? Or is it over from the second you commit your first sin?

Wind searching his brother Aquila, then to discover a sad truth.

See you in a dream. Feathers tucked to your sides. There in a tree, hazel eyes flicker in my direction. See your lights parked outside. Caught up in the race with time. Lights blinking. Feelings pour out into an open sea. Into more of me. Dancing like a dream. I trust, and I know it’s never over. Rain pours again. It’s getting hard to be someone. Hold my bags, even if they won’t understand. Less is plenty, more is many. Isn’t that what Yeat said? Whispered into echoes through hollow paper chambers in my short term memory. If not for you, I’d never blur my vision again. And in the night I’ll remember the day. Whispering a lovely thank you into the darkness.

Captain T-Rex recounts his mission to Planet X to stop the Space Pirate Hippo and save Giraffe. A fix-up of an unfinished film from 2008.

A sonic rumination on past lives through the lens of C. Ryu's maternal linage of her grandmother's unfinished dreams of being on stage as well as dreams of Ryu's own past lives, this non-linear performance uses storytelling as a methodology to unravel misplaced diasporic longing.

Students from different faith backgrounds come together for an epic World Religions class in a public high school. With the help of their teacher, the mild-mannered suburbanites confront the preconceived notions of their peers’ faiths.

On the night of her wedding to an abusive husband, a bride meets a mysterious stranger that unlocks her darkest fantasies.

A documentary that explores the nature of being our biggest critics, where we come from, and having empathy for ourselves and others.

A short film rendition of Hamlet, through the medium of table tennis.

A glitch can emerge in both a video and a memory. The life cycle of a video file mirrors that of a memory; neither can ever be recalled or survive in a perfectly intact state. Each retrieval brings a level of degradation, with a memory being shaped by factors like nostalgia, emotional state, and environment.

Laura lives under the stalking of "The Dark Invader," a presence that loves her with a dangerous intensity. But when she decides to open herself up to someone new, the darkness that surrounds her begins to awaken.

In 1975, a serial killer who had murdered eight people in the small town of Mapleshade, CT mysteriously vanished shortly after taking the life of his final victim, a young woman named Dawn Elliot. The murderer, Benjamin Thomas Bishop, would become the towns most infamous urban legend: the Devil of Mapleshade. Fifty years later, a group of friends investigate the urban legend themselves. This decision would result in bloodshed and the town of Mapleshade reopening its oldest and deepest wound.

A true happening of some things i remember in ritual or songs of the mind and moon mesmerize in the hypnosis of orbit

At age nine, a childhood stroke reshapes a family’s world; creating a film together gives two siblings a way to share what had previously been difficult to explain.

In the dead of the night in Chicago, the timid Brooklyn faces her fears and orders an Uber Share, a ride that would lead her down a road she never took before. Deep south in the woods of Kankakee Bluffs, a depressed loser named Max dives deeper into the forest seeking the only way out before receiving a phone call that would only add more to his problems.

A documentary style examination of the artistic process, delving into the creation of a project that takes an immeasurable toll on its creator.

A group of friends attempt to escape the monotony of their mid 20s by renting a cabin in Maine.

Liway, the eldest, works day and night to ensure the survival of her remaining family members, Santino and Nene. She finds her role challenged upon discovering her brother’s attempts to shift their dire situation. The relationship, now only tied by survival, intensifies into a heated exchange between the siblings. They either have to swallow or rinse off the pride that they have built in order to continue as a whole.

This film explores the issues of pride and shame in the national histories of states, addressing topics that spark debate in contemporary societies, such as colonial legacies, wars, religious conflicts, and economic exploitation. As demands for reparations grow in number and intensity, monuments are toppled, and moral values are reassessed, the need to distinguish between personal and collective responsibility becomes increasingly important, as does the need to address whether progress can ever justify atrocities.

Sonia can’t stop scrolling through photos of her ex-girlfriend. But when a sleepless night bends reality, she’s forced to face what she’s really holding onto.

After being played by the girl he thought chose him, a lonely teen channels his anger into self-improvement and boxing, eventually earning a chance to fight the guy who replaced him. When she finally reaches back out, he’s forced to decide what winning really means. (This was a short video my friends and I made freshman year for our digital studio class. Looking back, it’s a fun reminder of the good times we shared together that I will carry on with me for years to come. Enjoy!)

A variety of storefront mannequins look at, contemplate on, and talk about public space.

In conversation with Kenneth Anger's avant-garde classic, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), After the Pleasure Dome fuses slow hypnotic performance, live visual effects and underwater footage inspired by a myth overheard while visiting a Sacred Cenote (Cenote Sagrado) at Chichén Itzá. The psychedelic imagery asks: what precious jewels threaten to drown you? Which riches must your expel to survive?