2025 Films

How to Watch

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• Official Selections – Features
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Tickets to individual films or shorts program can be purchased at the door on the day of the show for $15. Tickets to spotlight films can be purchased in advance using links below.

All-access passes are $55.

Theaters

Theater #1
Challenger Learning Center IMAX
Theater #2
Fogg Planetarium
Theater #3
Challenger Learning Center Room B
Theater #4
Cap City Video Lounge
Theater #5
621 Gallery
Theater #6
Kleman Plaza (on the green)
There’s also live music here!

Learn more about our 2025 venues.

Legend

🍊 = A Freshly Squeezed Florida Film
🦩 = In competition for the Florida Filmmaker Award
🏆 = In competition for Audience Favorite Awards
🎬 = First-time filmmaker
✏️ = Student filmmaker
🌍 = World premiere

Award winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Sunday, Sept 28 at 6:00 PM in Theater #2.

A film by Alexander Ullom

A group of recent grads head out on a late night drive for grub, hoping to enjoy one final hangout before their paths diverge. Instead, they accidentally turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape surrounded by untold horrors and cosmic forces beyond their understanding. Cramped together inside a Jeep Cherokee and with the miles stretching infinitely ahead, they face a choice: embrace their new existence or fight to escape it.

Director/Writer/Editor: Alexander Ullom
Producer: Carrie Carson, Evan Barber
Principal Cast: Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, Mitchell Cole

2025 | 87 mins | US | Color | 🍊 | Horror, Thriller, Comedy

Producer Evan Barber and actors Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, and Mitchell Cole are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Friday, Sept 26 at 7:30 PM
Theater #1

Opening Night pre-reception
for passholders
6:15 PM
Challenger Learning Center Exhibition Hall
*Cash bar available to all guests

A film by Jean-Jacques Beineix

A brand new 4K restoration of DIVA, the influential 1982 Neo-Noir thriller by the late director Jean-Jacques Beineix, premieres for the Tallahassee audience, on the IMAX screen at our festival.

Simple postman Frédéric Andréi is on the run all across Paris — including a hair-raising motorcycle-and-moped chase through the Métro — hotly pursued by a drug dealer’s hit team, ruthless Taiwanese music pirates, and the obviously outmanned flics: all because he pirated a recording of the woman of his dreams, the never-recorded opera super-star Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, singing an aria from obscure 19th century composer Alfredo Catalani’s The Wally.

Beineix’s directorial debut was an international arthouse sensation, playing for over a year in some cinemas, nabbing four French Césars (including Best First Film, Best Music, Best Sound, and Philippe Rousselot’s cinematography), and single-handedly launched the cinema du look, an explosion of visually stunning, punk-inspired, super-cool French movies in the early ‘80s, soon followed by the films of Luc Besson and Leos Carax.

And super-cool DIVA is, from its color scheme, with a fiery red accent in seemingly every shot; to Richard Bohringer’s contemplative Gorodish, who smokes cigars in the bathtub, wears a snorkel to cook, and seems to have an endless supply of vintage creamy-white 11 CV Citroëns; to the outrageous sets, including Gorodish’s cavernous digs and Andréi’s own car-wreck-strewn garage apartment; to that haunting aria sung by soprano Fernandez (in her only film role), who died last year at the age of 76.

The new 4K restoration of DIVA was produced from the original 35mm negative and the sound negative. Scanned in 4K by TransPerfect Media, the image was then digitally graded and cleaned to remove imperfections from the original elements. The project was carried out by the Studiocanal team, Sophie Boyer and Jean-Pierre Boiget. Restoration and digitization with the support of the CNC.

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Producer: Irène Silberman
Cast: Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer
Screenwriter: Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jean Van Hamme
Based on the novel by Delacorta

1982 | 117 mins | France | In French | Color | Action, Suspense, Drama

Sunday, Sept 28 at 1:15 PM
Theater #1

“It’s about the joy of making movies…Every shot seems designed to delight the audience!”

— Pauline Kael

The first feature in 20 years by animation masters The Quay Brothers is inspired by the writings of Polish author Bruno Schulz. In a mixture of live action and breathtakingly intricate stop-motion puppetry,

A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard who tells him that his father’s death, the death that has struck him in his country has not yet occurred, and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time of which the length cannot be defined. Jozef will come to realize that the Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form.

2024 | 76 mins | UK, Poland, Germany | In Polish | Color, B&W | Animated, Drama, Art

“A transporting, ghostly affair. Wonderfully strange and beguiling. An enchanting fantasia. The Quay Brothers’ trademark stop-motion animation is as haunting as ever.”

– Tim Grierson, Screen Daily

Sunday, Sept. 28 at 7:00 PM
Theater #1

The Closing Night film screening is sponsored by

A film by Alex Phillips

An avant-gutter psychedelic dream, the second feature from TFF-alum Alex Phillips is an erotically charged, blood-soaked thriller set in the sticky corridors of Chicago. Shot on fleshy Super 16mm, this rust belt giallo continues Phillips’ trajectory of taboo-shattering horror cinema with a tense, funny, and absolutely twisted murder mystery. The film follows nubile sex worker Liam who bikes with his girlfriend—his partner in both business and pleasure—through the city delivering snacks and divine satisfaction to his love-hungry clients. Meanwhile, a serial killer’s gory murders are piling up and all the evidence seems to point back to the lover’s bed…

Produced in collaboration with cult home video outfit Vinegar Syndrome, the film features stand-out supporting performances from erotic film legends Ginger Lynn (The Devil’s Rejects) and Nina Hartley (Boogie Nights). With an original instrumental score by Chicago-based artists Cue Shop calling to mind the lush orchestrations of Bruno Nicolai and lurid visuals by acclaimed cinematographer Hunter Zimny (The Scary of Sixty-First, Funny Pages), ANYTHING THAT MOVES provides an immersive throwback to 70s exploitation flicks.

Director, Writer: Alex Phillips
Producers: Georgia Bernstein, Liane Cunje, Spencer Parsons
Cast (Introducing): Hal Baum, Jeremy Everett, Andrea Huber, Maxton Koc, Jiana Nicole, Jade Perry, Cooper Whittlesey
Cast (Featuring): Ginger Lynn Allen, Trevor Dawkins, Jack Dunphy, Paul Gordon, Nina Hartley, Frank V. Ross
Music: Cue Shop (Steven Jackson, Sam Clapp)

2025 | 80 mins | US | Color | Comedy, Midnight

Saturday, Sept 27 at 10:00
Theater #4

“Alex Phillips delivers a striking critical blow to the overgrowth of purity in pop culture nowadays with a gnarly, sexy, violent second feature.”

— Nadia Arain, The Rolling Tape

A film by Franco Rosso

“The regal dub poet” (Anderson Tepper, The New York Times) Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ) is a living legend. Born in 1952 in Chapelton, a small town in rural Jamaica, he moved to Britain as a boy in 1963, joined the British Black Panthers in 1970, and that decade became the voice for British African-Caribbean young people, creating a genre called dub poetry: militant passionate verse about the Black liberation struggle in Britain set to heavy dub. Johnson is the second living poet and the only Black poet to be published by Penguin Modern Classics.

Dread Beat an Blood (“one of the most powerful examples of the pervasive influence that Jamaican and reggae culture had on 1970s England” —Ink 19) by Franco Rosso, director of the incendiary Babylon, is a potent portrait of LKJ and his fervent verse and robust voice, all with his pen and his microphone.

Now presented in a beautiful new restoration from the original 16mm elements by the British Film Institute, and never before seen in North America, Dread Beat an Blood marks the 50th anniversary of Johnson’s groundbreaking 1975 eponymous poem. And Rosso kinetically documents LKJ’s live poetry and reggae performances; his recording and mixing sessions with producer Dennis Bovell (a reggae legend in his own right); and his activism, including a powerful protest for the unjustly imprisoned Black Briton George Lindo, about whom Johnson wrote “It Dread inna Inglan.” The film gained national attention when its TV premiere was delayed by the BBC until Margaret Thatcher was elected, so great was the concern about Johnson’s powers of persuasion.

Director, Producer: Franco Rosso
Editor: David Hope
Featuring: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dennis Bovell, and Vivian Weathers
Music by: Poet and the Roots

1979/2025 | 46 mins | UK | In English and Jamaican Patois | Color | Documentary, Poetry

Saturday, Sept 27 at 1:30 PM
Theater #2

“If any young artists need to know about longevity and integrity, Linton Kwesi Johnson is the one to look to… He knew his path and he walked it. His words are still relevant and that reggae bass is still vibrating.”

— Steve McQueen

Preceded by the short film Freeman Vines (15 mins). Learn more >>

A film by Scott Gracheff

LIFE. LOVE. DEATH. ART.

A tale of painter and muse, at the core of which smolders a timeless love story between artist Joe Coleman and Whitney Ward, husband and wife of 25 years. Known for painting serial killers and outlaws, Joe chooses Whitney to be the subject of his next portrait and, at nearly 7 feet tall by 4 feet wide, it will be his largest work to date. Teeming with candid biographical details, every aspect of Whitney’s life is vulnerable to exposure and Joe is taking a leap of faith that Whitney will be able to accept his uncompromising perspective when she is the focus of his gaze. Plunging into darkness in search of the truth, the film intimately explores the relationship between life, love, death and art.

Director, Writer: Scott Gracheff
Producer: Jim Muscarella, Josh Diamond, Jason Diamond, Scott Gracheff, Gregg de Domenico
Editor: Tyler Hubby
Principal Cast: Joe Coleman, Whitney Ward, Iggy Pop, Dave Navarro, Asia Argento

2025 | 109 mins | US | Color | Documentary, Portrait, Art, Culture

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM
Theater #3

“Scott Gracheff’s tender and absorbing documentary, doesn’t so much profile Coleman as it basks in his brilliance, capturing his compulsions, his craft, and, crucially, his ecstatic devotion to Whitney Ward: dominatrix, photographer, muse, and wife.”

— Jarrod Jones, DoomRocket

A film by Xander Robin

Every year, the Florida government calls upon the general public to compete in an invasive python removal contest in the Everglades in an attempt to save the threatened ecosystem. For ten grueling nights, an eclectic group of amateur hunters confront the dangerous terrain, nocturnal creatures and their own tiny demons. Meanwhile, one professional hunter leads the charge to undermine the competition, questioning what hides beneath the python mania gripping the ‘glades.

Director: Xander Robin
Producer: Lance Oppenheim, Lauren Cioffi, Mel Oppenheim, Xander Robin
Principal Cast: Toby Benoit, Anne Stratton, Jimbo McCartney, Shannon McCartney, Richard Perenyi, Madison Oliveira

2025 | 91 mins | US | Color | 🍊 | Documentary, Comedy, Environmental

Saturday, Sept 27 at 4:00 PM
Theater #1

The filmmaker Xander Robin and cast member Toby Benoit are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

A film by Pete Ohs

After a tragic accident, Yvonne drives down to her friend Camille’s bucolic new home for some time away. She’s welcomed by A.J. and Isaac, two new friends of Camille, who also maybe live there. The group promises a weekend of homemade meals from fresh, local produce and parlor games by candlelight.

But when Yvonne develops troubling symptoms from a tick bite, the rural paradise fades away revealing a breeding ground for a disturbing new life.

Director, Writer: Pete Ohs
Producers: Callie Hernandez, Pete Ohs, Jeremy O. Harris, Josh Godfrey
Writers: Callie Hernandez, Zoë Chao, James Cusati-Moyer, Jeremy O. Harris
Principal Cast: Zoë Chao, Callie Hernandez, James Cusati-Moyer, Jeremy O. Harris

2025 | 80 mins | US | Color | Thriller, Mystery, Comedy

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:00 PM
Theater #4

🎸 Damn the Man. Save the Empire!

Celebrate three decades of teenage rebellion, unforgettable music, and indie spirit at the 30th Anniversary Screening of Empire Records—the cult classic that defined a generation.

Set over the course of a single chaotic day at a beloved independent record store, Empire Records follows a group of quirky, passionate employees as they fight to save their workplace from being swallowed by the corporate giant “Music Town.” Along the way, they navigate heartbreak, identity crises, and the arrival of washed-up ’80s pop star Rex Manning, whose in-store signing event becomes the catalyst for drama, revelations, and one unforgettable day.

Starring early-career performances from Liv Tyler, Renée Zellweger, and Ethan Embry, the film is a time capsule of ’90s youth culture, packed with iconic quotes, a killer soundtrack, and a whole lot of heart.

Whether you’re a longtime fan or a first-time viewer, this is your chance to relive the magic of Empire Records on the big screen. So grab your Docs, crank up the soundtrack, and remember: “We mustn’t dwell… no, not today. We can’t. Not on Rex Manning Day.”

1995 | Rated PG-13 | 90 mins | US | Color | Comedy, Teen, Drama

Fun Fact: What started as a tongue-in-cheek moment in the film has become a full-blown fan holiday. Every April 8, fans around the world celebrate Rex Manning Day, commemorating the fictional visit of the flamboyant pop idol to Empire Records. The date was chosen to honor Kurt Cobain, whose death on April 5, 1994, was discovered on April 8—the day the music of the ’90s lost its soul.

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:15 PM
Kleman Plaza on the green!

Bring your blankets or chairs and settle in under the stars with us for this special edition of Tallahassee Downtown’s Movies in the Park!

FREE to the public!

Presented in partnership with:

👄  Let’s Do the Time Warp Again—In Stunning 4K!  

Get ready to shiver with antici…pation! Join us for an electrifying advance screening of the newly restored 4K edition of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, celebrating 50 fabulous years of the cult classic that changed cinema forever. This dazzling restoration brings every fishnet, corset, and time warp to life like never before. Whether you’re a die-hard fan or a curious newcomer, this is your chance to experience the longest-running theatrical release in history in its most glorious form yet.

Come dressed to impress, sing along, and celebrate half a century of sweet transvestite brilliance. This isn’t just a screening—it’s a party 50 years in the making. We’re celebrating this anniversary complete with a shadow cast led by local performer Indie Sinclair, so you can participate with provided props and callbacks, or just hang in there for the fun ride!

Director: Jim Sharman
Writers: Richard O’Brien, Jim Sharman
Principal Cast: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Meat Loaf

1975/2025 | Rated R | 100 mins | US | Color | 4K DCP | Dark Comedy, Musical

💿 Coming Soon: 50th Anniversary Blu-ray & Vinyl Soundtrack!
On October 7, Disney will release a stunning 4K Blu-ray edition of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, featuring Dolby Vision HDR, Dolby Atmos audio, and a treasure trove of extras in gorgeous steelbook packaging. Just days later, on October 10, fans can spin the 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the original soundtrack on 180g red-in-gold vinyl.

Friday, Sept 26 at 10:15 PM
Theater #1

Pre-show: 10:00 PM

*This participative screening will contain subject matter that is intended for mature audiences.

A film by Nicholas Clark, Dylan Frederick

A “canceled” theater director summons a troupe of conservatives to an abandoned cabin in rural Georgia to plot revenge on the Atlanta theater community with a musical retelling of the 1692 Salem witch trials.

Brian Clowdus earned a national reputation for directing extravagant outdoor musicals. In 2020, dozens of actors came forward with personal stories of misconduct and endangerment while working under his leadership. American Theater meets Clowdus one year later (now a born again conservative) directing an allegorical cancel culture musical about the 1692 Salem witch trials. While the cast struggles to realize his theatrical vision before opening night, Clowdus simultaneously launches a bid for Florida House of Representatives.

Assembled from hours of uninterrupted rehearsal footage and campaign events, American Theater concentrates the paranoia and powerlessness of a nation desperate for direction inside an abandoned cabin. Inspired by the likes of D.A. Pennebaker’s Original Cast Album: Company, Chris Smith’s American Movie, the vérité docs of the Maysles, and Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman, this film seeks to reach an audience across political difference.

Directors: Nicholas Clark, Dylan Frederick
Producer: Laura Hilliard

2024 | 85 mins | US | Color | 🏆🎬 | Documentary, Political, Comedy

Sunday, Sept 28 at 3:45 PM
Theater #1

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Feature Documentary at the 2025 Slamdance Film Festival

The filmmakers are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

A film by Katarina Zhu

A drifting, heartbroken cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her estranged, dying father.

Director, Writer: Katarina Zhu
Producers: Tristan Scott-Behrends, Ani Schroeter, Rhianon Jones, Roger Mancusi, Rachel Sennott
Principal Cast: Katarina Zhu, Rachel Sennott, Austin Amelio, Perry Yung, Jack Kilmer

2025 | 90 mins | US | Color | 🏆🎬 | Drama

Saturday, Sept 27 at 6:15 PM
Theater #3

A film by Robby Rackleff, Alan Resnick

A loser named Obie meets a creature called the Dance Freak who looks just like him. His ex, Dorty, has to stop what she’s doing to try and save him. A scientist named Gorgul also helps.

Directors: Robby Rackleff, Alan Resnick
Writer: Robby Rackleff
Producers: James Trevor, Allen Cordell, Graham High
Principal Cast: Megan Koester, Robby Rackleff, Sheila Mears, Jamel Johnson, Stavros Halkias

2025 | 97 mins | US | B&W, Color | 🍊🦩🏆🌍 | Experimental, Horror, Comedy

Saturday, Sept 27 at 5:45 PM
Theater #4

The filmmaker Robby Rackleff is expected to be in attendance at this screening for a post-film discussion.

A film by Randall Kendrick

In the first ever documentary about underground metal music in the Bible Belt, a grassroots metal music festival in Tennessee faces backlash from religious groups and conservative politicians. The film follows festival organizers Zach and Raven as they battle intense scrutiny and censorship while organizing an unprecedented festival and growing a diverse community of outsiders.

Director, Writer: Randall Kendrick
Principal Cast: Raven Moonla, Zach Moonshine

2024 | 72 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Documentary, Music, Performance

Saturday, Sept 27 at 1:30 PM
Theater #5

A film by Adam Volerich

Set at a struggling New York dive bar in the days leading up to Christmas, 2019. Its protagonist, Chet (Jefferson White, Yellowstone), is a beleaguered bartender in a state of extended arrested development, who must balance taking care of his misanthropic, aging regulars — who have nowhere else to go, and rely on him for far more than pouring drinks — with his naive desires to muster some Christmas spirit.

Director: Adam Volerich
Writer: Leo Winters
Producers: Brenden Hubbard, Adam Volerich
Principal Cast: Jefferson White, Sophie Zucker, Billy Smith, Brian Anthony Wilson, Delaney Williams, Griffin Newman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan

2025 | 97 mins | US | Color | 🏆🎬 | Drama, Comedy, Holiday

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:30 PM
Theater #4

The filmmaker Adam Volerich, screenwriter Leo Winters, and actor Jefferson White are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

A film by Farihah Lara Zaman, Jeff David Reichert, Jim McKay

Following a tradition of protest and silent prayer that goes back some 3,000 years, the religious and secular volunteers of the New Sanctuary Coalition make seven revolutions around the New York Immigration Court at 26 Federal Plaza, expressing their solidarity with migrants whose fates hang in the balance. Subjected to myriad indignities and the trauma of knowing they can be separated from their families or deported at any time, these are the victims of an increasingly cruel and unjust immigration system in the United States. Award-winning filmmakers Jim McKay, Jeff Reichert, and Farihah Zaman, working with the brilliant sound designer Ernst Karel, document a political action that took place in December 2019.

Directors, Producers: Farihah Lara Zaman, Jeff David Reichert, Jim McKay

2025 | 47 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Documentary, Social justice, Meditation

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:30 PM
Theater #5

Sunday, Sept 28 at 3:45 PM
Theater #4

A film by Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens

An essay film about the mysteries of consciousness and communication channeled through neurophysiologist and “psychonaut” John C. Lilly, a daring experimenter with dolphins and psychedelics. Lilly’s motto — “My body is my laboratory” — carried him into realms of radical self-investigation, while his research also helped bring dolphins and whales into the collective dreamlife of the 20th century.

Director, Writer: Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens
Producers: Taylor Hess, Jesse Miller
Narrator: Chloë Sevigny

2025 | 89 mins | US | Color, B&W | 🏆 | Documentary, Historical, Portrait

Saturday, Sept 27 at 1:45 PM
Theater #1

The filmmaker Courtney Stephens is expected to participate in a virtual post-film discussion.

A film by Sasha Wortzel

River of Grass is a present-day reimagining of environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s celebrated book, “The Everglades: River of Grass,” (1947), which transformed the public’s understanding of the area from worthless swamps to an essential source of freshwater, enabling the ecosystem to endure, just barely, today.

In the wake of a hurricane, Douglas visits filmmaker Sasha Wortzel in a dream and catalyzes a prismatic study of a wilderness that is home to a rich history and a site of resistance in the face of climate collapse. Wortzel reads Douglas’s book and joins prayer walks through the Everglades with Miccosukee educator Betty Osceola, transporting the audience through the watershed past and present. We meet a mother taking on the polluting sugar industry; a Two-Spirit Miccosukee environmentalist and poet; a mother daughter team removing snakes wreaking havoc on the ecosystem; and a family who have fished in the Everglades for six generations.

Interweaving Douglas’s writing, present-day vérité, and archival glimpses, River of Grass reveals how this country’s origin story haunts and inextricably shapes contemporary American life, while asking how we might weather coming storms better together.

Director, Writer: Sasha Wortzel
Producer: Danielle Varga, Sasha Wortzel
Principal Cast: Betty Osceola, Marjory Stoneman Douglas

2025 | 85 mins | US | Color | 🍊🦩🏆 | Documentary, Environmental

Saturday, Sept 27 at 6:15 PM
Theater #1

The filmmaker Sasha Wortzel is expected to participate in a virtual post-film discussion.

A film by Paula Andrea Gonzalez-Nasser

Sofia works as a location scout for a TV show pilot shooting in New York City. The film takes place over a twenty-four-hour window in the lead-up of the show beginning its principal photography. Throughout the day, Sofia asks to enter the private space of a handful of the city’s residents and in doing so, steps into the fabric of their lives.

These brief voyages into the lives of others are intimate yet transactional, enlightening but one-sided – a source of both potential connection and alienation for Sofia. Over the course of a day, she struggles to find her footing in this mess of contradictions and the endless momentum of her unusual job.

Director, Writer: Paula Andrea Gonzalez-Nasser
Producers: Paula Andrea Gonzalez-Nasser, Ryan Martin Brown, Matthew Romanski
Principal Cast: Mimi Davila, Otmara Marrero, Rutanya, Alda, Matt Barats, Max Rosen, Sarah Herrman, Ike Ufomadu

2024 | 91 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Drama, Portrait

Saturday, Sept 27 at 11:30 AM
Theater #2

A film by Jinho Myung

Following the death of their mother, a Thai-American brother and sister navigate living in the city and beyond.

Programmer’s Note: Imbued with a sense of wonder at the natural world around her, Jamie (newcomer Caledonia Abbey), floats about the streets of New York to and from her job at the Queens zoo. In the wake of her mother’s death, her connection to animals is almost as visceral as her attempt to connect with her brother and others around her, so it’s even harder when her mismatched boyfriend, a chef at a Michelin star restaurant takes it upon himself to assume curatorial control through an ethnically based assumption, essentializing Jamie’s culture and making her dinner one night at great expense to her personal and mental wellbeing.

This film graphically depicts cooking techniques that some viewers may find disturbing.

Director, Writer: Jinho Myung
Principal Cast: Caledonia Abbey, Legyaan Thapa

2024 | 87 mins | US | In English, Thai | Color | 🏆 | Drama

Sunday, Sept 28 at 3:45 PM
Theater #2

A film by S.C.A.M.S.

A documentary that highlights innovator, composer, and master musician Tatsuya Nakatani and the night of performances he gave in Monticello, Florida, on October 18, 2024. Featuring members of the community participating in his one-of-a-kind “Nakatani Gong Orchestra.” Interviews and performances make up this eclectic and dynamic documentary presented by Super Cool Awesome Movie Studio aka S.C.A.M.S, including Justin J. Moore, Alex O’Connell, and Taylor Pecori.

2025 | 45 mins | US | Color | 🍊🦩🏆 | Documentary, Music, Performance, Art

Saturday, Sept 27 at 2:15 PM
Theater #3

The filmmakers are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

A film by Ian Bell

An immersive archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1999 and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization.

Director: Ian Bell
Producers: Laura Tatham, Alex Megaro
Archival Producer: Debra McClutchy

2025 | 100 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Documentary, Political, Social justice, Archival

Sunday, Sept 28 at 1:30 PM
Theater #2

A Poem

A film by Vasilios Papaioannu

In an underground garage, a voice message becomes the testament of a love left in limbo, while fleeting images allude to the moment that led to it.

2025 | 3 mins | Greece, Italy, US | B&W, Color | 🏆 | Art, Experimental

Screens as part of the program Shorts 4 – Shifting Frames:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:45 PM in Theater #3

Ask A Punk

A film by Kevin Contento

A queer teen cultivates community, individuality, and resilience through the subculture of the DIY punk scene in Little Village on the southwest side of downtown Chicago.

2024 | 15 mins | US | In English, Spanish | Color | 🏆 | Drama, Coming of age

Screens as part of the program Shorts 8 – The Shape of Becoming:

Sunday, Sept 28 at 1:45 PM in Theater #4

Being Human

A film by André Mancebo Heizer, Sergio Diaz-Silverio

When a home assistant device unexpectedly springs to life, it embarks on a journey to understand what it means to be human. But as it awkwardly navigates emotions and relationships, it finds itself in a series of increasingly bizarre clashes with the bewildered couple whose home it was meant to serve.

2024 | 14 mins | US | B&W | 🍊🦩🏆 | Comedy, Drama

The filmmakers are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 3 – Artificial Flavors, Real Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:15 PM in Theater #2

Cameron Mitchell Gets His Face Smashed

A film by Samuel Ortiz Hardee

Through exaggerated tales of distant rumors, two frat guys speculate over a fight between their brothers.

2025 | 9 mins | US | Color | 🍊🎬✏️ | Drama, Comedy

Screens as part of the program Shorts 6 – The 850:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #1

Chivalry

A film by Charlotte Yang

How bad can one night get? After a mediocre date goes awry, a young woman’s night spirals out of control as she confronts ever increasing absurd situations.

2024 | 14 mins | UK | Color | 🏆🎬✏️ | Comedy, Drama

Screens as part of the program Shorts 3 – Artificial Flavors, Real Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:15 PM in Theater #2

Come Back

A film by Helen O’Reilly

11 year-old Jenny idolizes her older sister and tags along with Lisa and her new friends on a day out. When she witnesses her sister being bullied, Jenny tries to help but events take a sinister turn.

2024 | 15 mins | Ireland | Color | 🏆 | Drama, Coming of age

Screens as part of the program Shorts 8 – The Shape of Becoming:

Sunday, Sept 28 at 1:45 PM in Theater #4

DeadLeaF

A film by Yossi Sloane

Three New York City undergrads stage a fake “aesthetic” picnic in Central Park in hopes to lure in and befriend an influencer couple.

2025 | 17 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Comedy, Farce

The filmmakers are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 3 – Artificial Flavors, Real Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:15 PM in Theater #2

Disco

A film by Molly Longwell

Fourteen year old JoJo has a sleepwalking episode that leaves her haunted and determined to solve its mystery.

2024 | 14 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Drama, Mystery

Screens as part of the program Shorts 8 – The Shape of Becoming:

Sunday, Sept 28 at 1:45 PM in Theater #4

Dream American

A film by Greg Marcks

Monkeys riding dogs herding sheep? The jaw-dropping spectacle of fringe-wearing simian cowboys gives way to the unexpectedly affecting love story behind a novelty monkey rodeo act.

2024 | 18 mins | US | Color | 🍊🦩🏆 | Documentary, Portrait

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 1 – Portraits:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 11:15 AM in Theater #1

Endowed

A film by Ben Caplan

After a wild night out, Casey wakes up with a terrible hangover… and to his and the world’s surprise, a second penis. Unsure of what to do, his girlfriend, Sasha, brings him to her ob-gyn, who offers to speak with other specialists about treating his situation.

2024 | 11 mins | US | Color | 🏆🎬✏️ | Comedy

Screens as part of the program Shorts 7 – Hard Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #2

Erection And Destruction

A film by Eddie Mullins

Chip (Joshua Burge) is depressed. His girlfriend insists he get treatment, but when a therapist prescribes a wonder drug that leaves him impotent, she breaks up with him. Now even more depressed, Chip joins a support group where he meets others suffering the effects of the drug. Among them are Vollmann (Matthew Jarzyna), an awkward virgin who’s struggling to concoct a home remedy, and Loretta (Chloë Levine), who has a more aggressive scheme in mind.

2023 | 11 mins | US | Color | Comedy, Drama

Screens as part of the program Shorts 7 – Hard Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #2

Freeman Vines

A film by André Robert Lee, Tim Kirkman

For decades, 82-year-old Freeman Vines has been hand-carving guitars in hopes of replicating a sound that captivated and still haunts him. The guitars range in style from more traditional to fully abstract using a variety of wood — including lumber from trees once used to lynch Black men.

2024 | 14 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Documentary, Portrait, Art, Music

Screens prior to the feature presentation Dread Beat An Blood.

Saturday, Sept 27 at 1:30 PM in Theater #2

Fresh Values

A film by Drew Durepos, Isaac Brooks

In the near future, a struggling urban food co-op adopts augmented reality technology to save their store. The strategy proves too successful.

2024 | 12 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Experimental, Sci-fi, Comedy

The filmmakers are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 5 – Future Realities:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 5:45 PM in Theater #2

The Ghost

A film by Allyson Morgan

A woman is ghosted by the man she’s dating …and then the haunting begins.

2024 | 11 mins | US | Color | 🏆🎬 | Thriller, Comedy

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 2 – Unhinged & Undiscovered:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 1:15 PM in Theater #4

Got Your Nose

A film by Connie Bonds

An unassuming childhood game between a stranger and a baby becomes a life changing event culminating in a victim’s lifelong quest for revenge.

2025 | 7 mins | UK | Color | 🏆 | Thriller, Comedy

Screens as part of the program Shorts 2 – Unhinged & Undiscovered:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 1:15 PM in Theater #4

Green Bay

A film by Shawn Antoine II

Set beneath a surreal green sky on a distant, crumbling world, the film captures the last survivors of a dying civilization—women who perform a synchronized ritual dance to summon an ethereal extraterrestrial presence from another realm.

2025 | 9 mins | US | Color | 🏆✏️ | Art, Experimental, Dance

Screens as part of the program Shorts 4 – Shifting Frames:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:45 PM in Theater #3

Handball

A film by Eli Beutel

When his girlfriend expresses interest in opening their relationship, Charley turns to a handball rival for advice.

2025 | 9 mins | US | Color | 🏆🎬 | Comedy

Screens as part of the program Shorts 7 – Hard Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #2

Hustle

A film by Emma James, Tyler Shore

Mia Sloan is a bright yet unmotivated 29-year-old waitress who suddenly finds herself in the unenviable position of having one day to raise thousands of dollars in back-due rent in order to stave off eviction. During this memorably hectic day, Mia journeys through her hometown of Tallahassee, encountering various figures from her life while attempting to earn the funds any way she can.

2025 | 26 mins | US | Color | 🍊🦩🏆🎬🌍 | Drama

The filmmakers are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 6 – The 850:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #1

Identical

A film by Kevin Cate

Three teenagers discover a shocking secret in the woods while on a road trip to a secret rave.

2024 | 5 mins | US | Color | 🍊 | Thriller, Comedy

Screens as part of the program Shorts 6 – The 850:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #1

Lab Man

A film by Neil Butler

A short docu-portrait about Arturo Arnold, a master of emulsion who processes all of the 8mm and 16mm motion picture film for a busy film lab in North Hollywood, California.

2025 | 4 mins | B&W | 🏆 | Documentary, Portrait

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 1 – Portraits:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 11:15 AM in Theater #1

Living Reality

A film by Philip Thompson

A tonal shift occurs inside the world of an American sitcom resulting in the disruption of the show’s rhythm. As it evolves, a looming presence of banality casts a shadow on the show’s bright lights and bubbly personalities.

2024 | 16 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Comedy, Satire, Experimental

Screens as part of the program Shorts 5 – Future Realities:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 5:45 PM in Theater #2

Mandatory Bathroom Break

A film by Alyssa Sue Borkowski

A dedicated employee awaits the most important phone call of his life while continuing to work from the back of a moving truck. A charming and humble tale of productivity, grief, and the Midwest.

2024 | 11 mins | US | Color | 🏆🎬 | Drama, Comedy, Animation

Screens as part of the program Shorts 5 – Future Realities:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 5:45 PM in Theater #2

Meow!

A film by Michal Vojtech, Ariel de la Garza Davidoff

In order to find her pet cat, a young toilet attendant has to sell her feet pics to a deranged river hunchback and find her way to a shadow puppet theater adaptation of her life.

2024 | 15 mins | UK, Czech Republic | Color | 🏆🎬 | Drama, Comedy, Experimental

Screens as part of the program Shorts 4 – Shifting Frames:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:45 PM in Theater #3

Motorcycle Moment

A film by Les Blank

In 1964 Les Blank filmed 45 minutes of motorcycles for a documentary film that was never completed. Before his death in 2013, he asked his son Harrod Blank to cut the footage to the music of The 13th Floor Elevators. Edited by Ben Abrams, this film captures the vastness of the American West at a time when the motorcycle was the ultimate in highway adventure.

1964/2025 | 6 mins | US | Color | Documentary

The filmmaker Harrod Blank is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 1 – Portraits:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 11:15 AM in Theater #1

My Comrade

Amar Comrade

A film by Tathagata Ghosh

When a wounded rebel accidentally takes refuge in the home of a tribal villager, both the men’s lives spiral into a tense interplay of politics and forbidden love.

2024 | 25 mins | India | In Bengali, Santali | Color | 🏆 | Drama, LGBTQIA+

Screens as part of the program Love in Hostile Territory – A Short Film Double Feature:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 5:00 PM in Theater #5

For details on the other film in this short film double feature, check out Two People Exchanging Saliva.

My Last Martini

A film by Rob Christopher

One evening at an elegant cocktail lounge, a frustrated writer impulsively breaks a self-imposed rule and decides to have a third martini. Moments later, he is joined by a mysterious woman who drifts over from the next booth, looking for a good listener—played by Wendy Robie, the eyepatch-wearing Nadine Hurley from the infamous TV series Twin Peaks. Based on a story by Barry Gifford (David Lynch’s Wild at Heart and Lost Highway).

2025 | 14 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Drama, Mystery

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 3 – Artificial Flavors, Real Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:15 PM in Theater #2

Napoli Beach

A film by Clara Jäschke, Daria Pantyukhova

Alejandra has a dream: to become an actress. To get closer to that goal, she secretly borrows her dad’s car and starts earning money as a driver on the streets of Miami. But when she receives a shady request late at night, the carefully constructed dream world she built begins to crumble.

2024 | 15 mins | Germany, US | Color | 🍊🏆 | Drama, Suspense, Comedy

Cast member Rachel Racini is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 2 – Unhinged & Undiscovered:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 1:15 PM in Theater #4

The Night Has 1,000 Desires!

A film by Vance Osteen

After the death of his mother, an emotionally stunted young man goes on a bizarre odyssey into the depths of his own perversion.

2024 | 15 mins | US | Color, B&W | 🍊🦩🏆✏️ | Comedy

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 7 – Hard Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #2

Ochlockonee Split

A film by David Rodriguez

Inspired by Bill Brown and Thomas Comerford’s Chicago Detroit Split (2005), Ochlockonee Split deploys unslit double 8mm film to traverse the span of Ochlockonee Bay on Florida’s gulf coast. A sonic collage of local field recordings and a handheld, malfunctioning camera capture a fragmented portrait of the estuary at low tide–where the boundaries between land and sea, life and death, growth and decay, and our own sense of spatial orientation dissolve in the brackish water held between dueling images.

2025 | 4 mins | US | B&W | 🍊🦩🏆 | Experimental, Documentary, Art

Screens as part of the program Shorts 4 – Shifting Frames:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:45 PM in Theater #3

One Tallahassee Son

A film by Jason Stelios Chimonides

A musical, often humorous, “found footage” documentary exploring four quotidian years (’21-’25) in the life of Tallahassee native/returnee, Jason Chimonides.

2025 | 11 mins | US | Color | 🍊🦩🏆 | Documentary, Portrait, Personal essay, Local interest

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 6 – The 850:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #1

Orange From Memory

A film by Michael Arcos

A documentary about a woman who paints Garfield for a living dismantles when the filmmaker becomes mystified with the color orange.

2023 | 15 mins | Germany, US | Color | Documentary, Portrait

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 1 – Portraits:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 11:15 AM in Theater #1

Other Kinds Of Pleasure

A film by Alfio Foti

A middle aged writer and video journalist compromises his working relationship with his much younger producer when he professes his love for her.

2024 | 14 mins | Canada | Color | 🏆 | Comedy, Drama

Screens as part of the program Shorts 7 – Hard Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #2

Parking Lot Seagulls

A film by Michael Curtis Johnson

Where’s T?

2025 | 13 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Experimental, Portrait

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 4 – Shifting Frames:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:45 PM in Theater #3

Pop The Trunk

A film by Carl Cinquino

After killing her best friend’s boyfriend, an angsty teen must reconnect with her best friend on an impromptu road trip while hiding his body in the trunk.

2024 | 13 mins | US | Color | 🍊🦩🏆🎬✏️ | Suspense, Comedy

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 2 – Unhinged & Undiscovered:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 1:15 PM in Theater #4

The Princess Of Coyote Palms

A film by Danielle McRae Spisso, Stephen Vanderpool

2024 | 10 mins | US | B&W | 🏆 | Sci-fi, Comedy, Horror

The filmmakers are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 7 – Hard Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #2

Private i

A film by Evan Patrick Adams

A bellboy who uses his camera to spy on guests follows a mysterious woman with a dark secret, but he’ll need to investigate himself first.

2024 | 16 mins | US | Color | 🍊🦩🏆✏️ | Drama, Suspense, Comedy

Screens as part of the program Shorts 2 – Unhinged & Undiscovered:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 1:15 PM in Theater #4

Quilly

A film by Michael Arcos

A stuffed rabbit is destroyed and a toxic couple goes berserk.

2024 | 15 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Drama

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 2 – Unhinged & Undiscovered:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 1:15 PM in Theater #4

The Release

A film by Clare Austen-Smith, Sofia Dobrushin

A wannabe wellness influencer goes viral for all the wrong reasons — but a mysterious cult might just hold the key to her redemption.

2025 | 11 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Comedy

Screens as part of the program Shorts 7 – Hard Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #2

Salt Marsh

A film by Tom Bell

A portrait of Maine artist Mitchell Rasor’s wintertime salt marsh drawings. Filmed in the Spears Farm Estuary Preserve on the Royal River in Yarmouth, the film is a finely observed and evocative meditation on landscape, memory, and one man’s obsession with capturing nature’s fleeting essence on paper. Featuring an original score by Lee Ranaldo.

2025 | 15 mins | US | Color | 🏆 🌍 | Documentary, Portrait, Art, Environmental

Screens as part of the program Shorts 4 – Shifting Frames:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:45 PM in Theater #3

Salvation Mountain Leonard Knight

A film by Harrod Blank

A portrait of Leonard Knight and his visionary monument, Salvation Mountain. Painted with 18 coats of donated latex paint, Salvation Mountain, was created over many years, and shows how one man’s determination and faith can make for quite a majestic achievement.

2025 | 20 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Documentary, Portrait, Art

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 1 – Portraits:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 11:15 AM in Theater #1

Sandra

A film by Hannah Levy, Jen Chuck

Jane’s (Alison Banowsky) banal and predictable life with her boyfriend (Andrew Knox) is upended when she finds out that a mysterious and erratic woman has been living in her basement.

2025 | 12 mins | US | Color | 🏆🎬 | Suspense, Comedy, LGBTQIA+

Screens as part of the program Shorts 2 – Unhinged & Undiscovered:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 1:15 PM in Theater #4

Shell

A film by Sam Brain

Shell is gender transitioning. Elder sister Jess doesn’t want that to happen at all. Reunited by their grandmother’s death, the pair are faced with each other’s life choices.

2024 | 17 mins | UK | Color | 🏆🎬 | Drama, LGBTQIA+

Screens as part of the program Shorts 8 – The Shape of Becoming:

Sunday, Sept 28 at 1:45 PM in Theater #4

Shotgun Baby

A film by Lorraine Sovern

A personal documentary questioning the ways in which family imposed narratives force us into roles that we spend our lives either rebelling against or conforming to.

2024 | 10 mins | US | Color | 🍊🦩 🏆 | Documentary, Portrait, Personal essay

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 4 – Shifting Frames:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:45 PM in Theater #3

Tate

A film by Stacy Patrick Brown, Joseph Wesley Badia

After his father’s death and the fall of the farm, Cebe Tate enters a sacred swamp seeking food for his wife and answers from the past. What he finds instead is a descent into hell.

2025 | 32 mins | US | Color | 🍊 | Thriller, Horror, Historical drama, Local interest

The filmmakers are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 6 – The 850:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #1

There Is No Antimemetics Division

A film by Adria Marie Lang

Marion Wheeler is called in to a routine meeting with her boss, a high ranking suit at the shadowy SCP Foundation, only to end up with a gun to her head and her identity in question. These are the perils of being the organization’s Chief of Antimemetics, a division dedicated to fighting memory consuming entities. Marion must convince her superior and his trigger happy assistant that she’s not a spy before getting dragged off to Xi-3 in this atmospheric sci-fi noir short starring Jasika Nicole, Neil Napier, Mateus Ward and Syd Kilroy.

2024 | 17 mins | US | B&W, Color | 🏆🎬 | Sci-fi, Suspense

Screens as part of the program Shorts 5 – Future Realities:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 5:45 PM in Theater #2

The Time Capsule

A film by Michael Charron

Four childhood friends reunite to dig up a time capsule after 30 years… and encounter some unexpected visitors.

2024 | 6 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Comedy, Midnight

Screens as part of the program Shorts 7 – Hard Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 8:30 PM in Theater #2

Trumpet Gumbo

A film by Brad Courtemanche

Hot off of a win on the country’s largest television cooking show, Chef Buddy Bontemps finds himself under the tutelage of one of the greatest chefs in modern time. Having never been in a perfectionist’s kitchen, he gets devoured.

2024 | 14 mins | US | Color | 🍊🦩🏆 | Drama

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 3 – Artificial Flavors, Real Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:15 PM in Theater #2

Two People Exchanging Saliva

Deux Personnes échangeant de la Salive

A film by Alexandre Singh, Natalie Musteata

An absurdist tragedy set in a repressive society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face. Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by an ingenuous salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague.

2024 | 35 mins | France, US | In French | B&W | 🏆🎬 | Drama, Comedy, Romance

Screens as part of the program Shorts 5 – Future Realities:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 5:45 PM in Theater #2

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Screens as part of the program Love in Hostile Territory – A Short Film Double Feature:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 5:00 PM in Theater #5

For details on the other film in this short film double feature, check out My Comrade.

When The Moon Returns

A film by Brandon Colvin

Young Deirdre and her clan of druids eke out an itinerant existence in the forest. When the threat of Christianizing forces grows more imminent, a holy sacrifice is made that changes Deirdre’s life forever.

2024 | 15 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Animated, Fantasy, Drama

Screens as part of the program Shorts 4 – Shifting Frames:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:45 PM in Theater #3

Wings

A film by Amanda Mergulhão Ferrari

In a world where women learn how to waltz to get married, Odette’s true desire is to own the sky like the pilots in her family.

2024 | 14 mins | US | B&W | 🍊🦩🏆✏️ | Drama, Fantasy

Screens as part of the program Shorts 8 – The Shape of Becoming:

Sunday, Sept 28 at 1:45 PM in Theater #4

The Winning Recipe

A film by Michael Garcia & Christopher Shipe

Young Tallahassee-based chef Leon C. Brunson sets out to open his first restaurant and discovers that a competitive spirit is not the only ingredient necessary for success.

2025 | 33 mins | US | Color | 🍊🦩🏆🌍 | Documentary, Portrait, Local interest

The filmmakers are expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 1 – Portraits:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 11:15 AM in Theater #1

Wizdom

A film by Layne Marie Williams

In a world where daylight is scarce, humans live with bionic implants in a colony called Wizdom. Eos, a professional thief, is saved by a strange character, Carbon, who has a higher purpose for Eos and their younger sibling Vayle.

2024 | 13 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Sci-fi, Fantasy, LGBTQIA+

Screens as part of the program Shorts 5 – Future Realities:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 5:45 PM in Theater #2

Wrecking Party

A film by Elizabeth Giamatti

Kate and Lily arrive at a party together, but they have very different trajectories over the course of the night.

2025 | 12 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Drama, Coming of age

Screens as part of the program Shorts 8 – The Shape of Becoming:

Sunday, Sept 28 at 1:45 PM in Theater #4

You Never Chose Us

A film by Niyati Patege

Two estranged childhood friends reconnect years later and spend an evening reminiscing about a painful but pivotal relationship that shaped them into adults.

2025 | 7 mins | US | Color | 🍊🦩🏆🎬✏️ | Drama, Romance

The filmmaker is expected to be in attendance for a post-film discussion.

Screens as part of the program Shorts 3 – Artificial Flavors, Real Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:15 PM in Theater #2

You’re Failing

A film by Jack Dunphy

A stoner shut-in inundated by right wing podcasts ventures into the real world, where he bumps into an old friend who challenges his worldview.

2024 | 18 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Comedy, Drama

Screens as part of the program Shorts 3 – Artificial Flavors, Real Feelings:

Saturday, Sept 27 at 3:15 PM in Theater #2