Directed by Sameh Alaa • 2025 • France, Egypt

A playful and poignant tale of family, first love, and self-actualization told through the story of the director’s relationship with his hair—from early barber-shop trauma to balding—this charmingly lo-fi, hand-doodled animated short from Sameh Alaa ...

Directed by Pepi Ginsberg • 2025 • United States, France
Starring Devin France, Taj Cross, Annie Schwartz

This at once clear-eyed and compassionate look at coming of age in the era of smartphone-mediated, parasocial intimacy follows seventeen-year-old Kaylee (Devin France), the newest member of ...

Directed by Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence and Megan Trufant Tillman • 2025 • United States
Starring Josiah Cross, Danny Glover, Mia Isaac

Sumptuously shot in a nighttime New York City bathed in neon and melancholic longing, this evocative reverie on queer yearning and repression begins with a midnight...

Directed by Story Chen • 2022 • China
Starring Annabel Yao, Li Rongxi, Zhang Taiwen

Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or for Best Short Film, this dreamily poetic vision of aqueous apocalypse is a mesmerizing meditation on the fragility of both human connection and life on Earth. When an asteroid hit...

Directed by Charlie Kaufman • 2025 • United States, Greece
Starring Jessie Buckley, Josef Akiki

Part ghost story, part city symphony, this elegiac short directed by Charlie Kaufman traces the meeting of two recently deceased young people—a troubled photographer (Jessie Buckley) and a gay transla...

Directed by Alison McAlpine • 2024 • Canada

The awe-inspiring majesty of the natural world—from the expansive desert to the star-streaked night sky—is captured through unexpected eyes in this sublimely cinematic, Oscar-nominated documentary short. In the vast Chilean desert, three wandering donk...

Directed by Nick Canfield • 2025 • United States

In the mideighties, Swiss synth-pop duo Yello took American pop culture by storm with an offbeat anthem that became an unlikely cultural touchstone. With its glitchy electronic groove and bass-deep vocals, “Oh Yeah” was made famous by FERRIS BUELL...

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...

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, ...

Directed by Alexander Farah • 2024 • Canada
Starring Massey Ahmar, Mahan Mohammadinasab, Elyas Rahimi

Spanning 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 ...

Directed by Chelsea McMullan and Douglas Nayler Jr. • 2025 • Canada
Starring Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Starring 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...

Directed by Ifeyinwa Arinze • 2023 • United States
Starring Odera Adimorah, Isley Key Brison, Lauralie Mufute

When 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...

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...