★ NOVA or (The Extraordinary Search for the Love of Tofu) | Cici Yixuan Wu, Sebastian Schnabel | 2025 | English | 14 minutes | The member of an Asian girl group puts her band's first big gig in jeopardy, when her vagina turns into a micro black hole. ★ Rooftop Lempicka (Lempicka Trên Mái Nhà) | Nguyễn Lương Hằng | 2025 | Vietnamese | 20 minutes | Houston Premiere 2002 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home. As their friendship grows, she discovers that Ngoc is secretly a sex worker. Meanwhile, an art book of Tamara de Lempicka’s female nudes, stolen from a bookshop, silently bears witness. ★ I Wish I Were Pretty | Hanah Chang | 2025 | English, Korean | 20 minutes | Texas Premiere | Film Content Warning: Profanity An insecure Korean-American woman struggles with old resentments against her beautiful best friend, exposing the impossible beauty standards that caused them. ★ F*CK FEELINGS | Samantha K. Tan | 2025 | English | 16 minutes | Texas Premiere | Film Content Warning: Profanity F*CK FEELINGS follows a talented painter preparing for her huge debut at an art gallery, only to be welcomed by a dark past that she fought hard to forget. ★ Somewhere to be | Libby Chun | 2025 | English, Korean | 16 minutes | Texas Premiere A young woman's efforts to bring her runaway sister back home turn into a strange night in an unfamiliar city. ★ Only In This World | Dorothy Xiao | 2024 | English | 12 minutes | Texas Premiere When an empty nester loses her ability to summon her daughter back from the afterlife, she is forced to find help from the person she resents the most: her ex-husband's mistress. ★ Charge Me (충전) | Eunwoo Park | 2025 | Korean | 30 minutes | World Premiere Jinsu begins each day by feeding his wife a strawberry jelly, refusing to accept her death—until his fragile illusion starts to crack.