Short Films
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1 seasonShort Films by Jess X. Snow
1 season
The exquisitely textured, sensorially immersive films of Chinese Canadian artist and filmmaker Jess X. Snow are works of immense heart and healing, opening up a compassionate, imaginative dreamspace in which queer Asian American characters seek liberation from social and familial trauma through e...
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MovieMeshes of the Afternoon
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Directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid • 1943 • United States
Starring Maya Deren, Alexander HammidCinematic trance-maker Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid launched an underground revolution with this avant-garde landmark—shot in their Hollywood home, but a world away from the co...
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1 seasonTwo Shorts by Dwayne Leblanc
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In his acclaimed short films, Caribbean American director Dwayne LeBlanc has shown himself to be a rising talent already in full control of mood, tone, and visual texture. His mesmerizing CIVIC and its gorgeous follow-up, NOW, HEAR ME GOOD, each center on a young man named Booker (played by Barri...
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MovieMy Back Pages
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Directed by Nick Canfield and Paul Lovelace • 2024 • United States
Meet Mitch Blank, the world’s foremost collector of Bob Dylan memorabilia and recordings, all kept in his tiny New York City apartment. This affectionate short follows Mitch as he donates his life’s work to the Bob Dylan Center i...
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MovieWe Were the Scenery
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Directed by Christopher Radcliff • 2025 • Philippines, United States, Vietnam
In 1975, soon after the end of the Vietnam War, Hoa Thị Lê Chế and Huệ Nguyên Chế fled to the Philippines in a makeshift boat. There, they were held in a refugee camp and, along with nearly one hundred other refugees, ...
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MovieOne Day This Kid
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Directed by Alexander Farah • 2024 • Canada
Starring Massey Ahmar, Mahan Mohammadinasab, Elyas RahimiSpanning more than ten years, this stirring, deeply felt short alights on the seemingly small yet formative moments that shape Hamed, a young Afghan Canadian man, as he navigates both his queer ...
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1 seasonTwo Shorts by Sofía Camargo
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The complex dynamics between mothers and daughters is at the heart of these beautifully understated shorts by Colombian director Sofía Camargo. In BY THE RIVER, an unspoken grief hovers in the household of a newly single mother and her two daughters, while in NOSTOS, a young girl acts out in defi...
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1 seasonHoliday Shorts
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A stocking stuffer of holiday shorts captures both the magic of the season and the melancholy of what can be the loneliest time of year. From a cozy stop-motion treasure (A CHRISTMAS DREAM) to striking early works by renowned auteurs like Lynne Ramsay (GASMAN), these by turns festive, funny, and ...
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MovieCaring Cabin
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Directed by Chelsea McMullan and Douglas Nayler Jr. • 2025 • Canada
Starring Beverly Glenn-CopelandStarring electronic-music pioneer Beverly Glenn-Copeland and conceived by his wife and creative partner Elizabeth, this never-before-seen pilot for an unproduced children’s show is a joyous, color...
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1 season7 Films by Suzan Pitt
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Enter the wild and wondrous world of the late Suzan Pitt, an independent animation visionary whose oneiric psychosexual odysseys are direct channels to her dreams, nightmares, fantasies, and inner desires. Straining a diverse array of influences—from Leonora Carrington to Betty Boop to magical re...
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1 seasonLGBTQ+ Shorts
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Stories of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and the simple but radical, often dangerous act of just existing as a queer person are on display in these empathetic and innovative shorts, which reflect the wide spectrum of experiences that make up the LGBTQ+ rainbow.
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MovieAugust Visitor
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Directed by Ifeyinwa Arinze • 2023 • United States
Starring Odera Adimorah, Isley Key Brison, Lauralie MufuteWhen her widowed mother has a male friend over for dinner, an observant Nigerian American teenager acts out, setting up a clash that ultimately leads her to a deeper understanding of her...
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1 seasonPrismatic Ground Presents
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One of the most exciting and adventurous film festivals to emerge in recent years, Prismatic Ground brings together aesthetically innovative, politically radical work at the intersection of experimental and documentary cinema. This selection of shorts from the festival’s first four editions offer...
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MovieBurnt Milk
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Directed by Joseph Douglas Elmhirst • 2023 • United Kingdom
Starring Xavier Alexander Keating, Tamara Lawrance, Clover Webb“When we dream, we dream in patois.” Una (Clover Webb), a Jamaican woman living in 1980s London, reveals her feelings of alienation through a poetic, patois-inflected inner...
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Directed by Keisha Rae Witherspoon • 2019 • United States
Starring Koko Zauditu-Selassie, Kherby Jean, Jesus MitchellIn this stylistically dazzling, deeply moving, and unclassifiable short, a film crew follows three grieving participants in Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R...
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MovieOpen Mic Solitaire
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Directed by Julius-Amédée Laou • 1983 • France
Starring Serge Ubrette, Marilyne CantoPlaywright Julius-Amédée Laou’s first foray into filmmaking is an explosive call to revolution in which a young Black artist—after learning that his brother has been murdered in Paris by far-right racists—hijac...
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1 seasonOscar-Nominated Shorts
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These exuberant and inventive Oscar-nominated shorts span animated, documentary, and fiction work, including eye-catching early films by Andrea Arnold, Richard Lester, and Shirley Clarke. At an awards show often dominated by stars and industry titans, the short-film Academy Award categories tend ...
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1 seasonShort Films by David Lynch
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Delve deeper into the labyrinthine psyche of surrealist nightmare-weaver David Lynch with these unsettling, hallucinatory shorts that reflect the origins and evolution of his singular style. Spanning the early experimental and painterly works that laid the foundation for his cult sensation ERASER...
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MovieGod is Good
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Directed by C Prinz • 2024 • United States
Through an ecstatic fusion of monologue, music, and dance, this at once lusciously stylized and emotionally raw collaboration between actor-musician Jeremy Pope and filmmaker C Prinz explores and expands notions of Black masculinity as it confronts the ...
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MovieStoney Knows How
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Directed by Bruce “Pacho” Lane and Alan Govenar • 1981 • United States
Meet Leonard St. Clair, a.k.a. Stoney: a paraplegic little person, a carnival sword-swallower as a child, and a tattoo artist since 1928, he is a font of strange and incredible tales about the art of tattooing and other unrel...
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1 seasonThree Short Films by Mackie Mallison
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As ecstatically inventive as they are warmly heartfelt, these deeply personal shorts by rising director Mackie Mallison are multilayered explorations of Asian American identity (including his own Japanese American heritage), family, displacement, and memory. Combining the dreamy textures and inti...
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Lush: A Far from Home Movie
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Directed by Phil King • 2024 • United Kingdom
Starring Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson, Chris AclandOne of the defining bands of the shoegaze wave that washed over the indie-rock world in the 1990s, Lush mesmerized with their otherworldly vocals set against a swirling wall of sound. Assembled by fo...
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1 seasonJames Baldwin On-Screen
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Towering literary lion, fierce social critic, and inimitable cultural icon James Baldwin opened up a new space for the frank discussion of race, sexuality, and identity in American society. He also left behind a dynamic cinematic legacy, as seen in these portraits that capture his electrifying pr...
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1 seasonShorts for Days: Dance on Film
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One of the world’s oldest art forms meets one of the youngest in this suite of shorts that showcase the beauty, grace, grit, and endless innovation of dance in its myriad forms. Including boundary-breaking works by directors like Shirley Clarke (DANCE IN THE SUN, A MOMENT IN LOVE), Alexander Hamm...
