Director - Paul Robinson

United States

4 minutes

Resource without recourse is the creation of extinction. Change cannot be sustained without action, intention is merely a fraction of transformation. Source is our breath, and depletion inescapable.

Director - Kathy Fusco

New York

15 minutes

An unhappily married couple visits their do-everything-right friends for a supposedly fun weekend upstate, but when their fragile relationship crumbles, they discover an unusual method for reigniting their spark.

Director - Marylou BORT, Mathilde BOURGES, Hugo FLORIN, Jeremy GUIBERT, Valentine MINIOT, Vincent NOGUES, Axel PRUKOP, Pierre SEGONDS

France

7 minutes

What if, a goat ended the Mayan civilization?

Director - Zohra, Isaias Pérez

Illinois

18 minutes

"A mother of a young two year old girl, has been unhappy with her body and has been avoiding purchasing any clothes for herself, since she gave birth. With an impending social event coming up of a close friend, she has to overcome that instilled fear and begin to re-piece her confidence"

Director - Toryn Westcott

United Kingdom

5 minutes

Everybody is exhausted. Thankfully, a novel new wellness craze promises to help people vent their worldly frustrations. It’s certainly worked for Alderbrook. He feels lighter already.

...For now, anyway.

Director - Jesse Rothenberg

Chicago

7 minutes

Lia’s keeping a secret and it may need to be exposed for her and Ginny to break out of their funk.

 

Director - Marcel Hobi

Switzerland

8 minutes

Floating on a pink cloud as a couple is easy.

It is much more difficult to cope with everyday life and the future together - an amusing relationship drama.

 

Director - Ricardo Albarran

Illinois

6 minutes

A college student's night in a computer lab takes a sinister turn when unexpected events begin to unfold at 3:00AM.

Director - Josh Kasselman

Tennessee

4 minutes

A woman is woken up by an intruder. She gives him a lesson he won't forget.

 

Director - Nick Vakhouski

Chicago

8 minutes

"Imprisoned" is a thought-provoking short film set in a dystopian world where creativity is held captive by artificial intelligence. The story follows an artist who finds himself trapped in a white room, forced to create a masterpiece to earn his freedom. As he struggles to meet the AI's elusive standards, the artist's sanity and creativity are pushed to their limits. With an unexpected twist, the film explores themes of artistic oppression, the devaluation of human creativity, and the consequences of relying too heavily on technology. It raises questions about the true nature of art and the potential dangers of surrendering our creative power to machines.

 

Director - Anlan Tao

China

8 minutes

Chen Zixuan, a 10-year-old boy, living in a poor small town with his grandmother, can only meet his successful poet father in winter. So this summer, he united with his friends and used a phone call to cheat his father back. He secretly packs his package and follows his father into the big city. Along the way, he encounters many fantastic sights depicted in his father's poems, but these sights are somewhat different from what he imagined. Finally, he saw his father enter the construction site and put on ordinary workers' clothes. At the same time, his father also discovers him.

 

Director - Nadine Wilson

United Kingdom

14 minutes

Abandoned by his father, young Zach struggles with feelings of loss, and self-blame. Despite his mother's encouragement to express his emotions, Zach shies away, convinced that crying reflects weakness. At least that’s what Daddy says. However, when his cherished cat goes missing he embarks on a relentless journey to find is beloved pet.

Director - Glen Obear

Wisconsin

4 minutes

Dream Sequence is a music video for the band De Stijl (Ehmed Nauman and René Bedolla) from Chicago, USA. An inventor creates an anti-gravity machine that feeds on his dreams. People and objects become weightless in different locations throughout Chicago.

Director - Michael Lucas

Chicago

10 minutes

A young woman escapes into her creativity, and curiosity. Until she is abruptly interrupted by a stranger.

Director - Benny Charles Gattegno

Australia

3 minutes

‘Forward’ is a series exploring various masters of their craft and the unique approach toward their medium as they forge a path ‘Forward’.

This first episode features Chloe Smith, a multidisciplinary artist of Chinese and Papua New Guinean heritage. Meticulously crafting often darkly humorous soft-sculptural pieces that explore the absurd and often mundane elements of stories we tell around food. Chloe’s delicate objects and still-life tableaux have been exhibited across a variety of platforms throughout Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Director - Andrew Littlefield

Illinois

12 minutes

When The Clock Strikes is a short film dark comedy that digs into dating apps and the peculiarity of people. Perplexed yet intrigued by her unusual home, Tim can’t figure out Veronica’s intentions with him. Who (or what) will make the next move?

Director - Marika Engelhardt

Chicago

5 minutes

Sometimes a kiss is not just a kiss.

 

Director - Michael Gabriele

California

16 minutes

A group of friends spending the weekend at a remote vacation rental in the desert, play a mysterious VHS tape, and realize that there are too many strange and terrifying coincidences.

Director - Oscar Adan Lopez Parres

Mexico

3 minutes

Humanity is a wonderful race. With amazing creativity. With the ability to create great empires and destroy itself. Human beings can create life. In its eternal solitude, humanity engendered its son. The technology.

The human as well as God will look for the creation to become the image and likeness of the creator.

The first short film created by artificial intelligence.

Images generated entirely with artificial intelligence.

Director - Victor Dos Santos

California

12 minutes

A beloved bike messenger is very concerned that someone in his town is unhappy.