★ Single Residence Occupancy | Omer Ben-Shachar | 2024 | English, Mandarin | 10 minutes | Texas Premiere A Chinese immigrant living in a Single Residence Occupancy apartment receives news that her family’s application for better housing is denied, and grapples with how to share the news with her children. ★ Fil-Am | Ralph Torrefranca | 2026 | English, Tagalog | 15 minutes | Texas Premiere | Film Content Warning: Profanity In 2003, a 16-year-old Filipino kid from the inner city is forced to leave his old life behind for the terrifying new world of Santa Barbara, California. ★ Byway | June Kyu Park | 2025 | English, Korean | 17 minutes | Texas Premiere | Film Content Warning: Profanity, Content that is not suitable for children A struggling first-generation Korean American boy tries to abandon his abusive father in a remote town, only to uncover the weight of his mother’s struggles and his father’s hidden burdens. ★ Can I Put You On Hold | James Cutler | 2026 | Thai, English | 12 minutes | Houston Premiere A man struggles with the crushing bureaucracy of immigration as he waits on hold with his immigration lawyer, trying to keep hope alive for his future with his fiancée, only to face a devastating setback that forces him to reconsider everything. ★ Ipdeot (입덧) | Dokyun Im | 2025 | English, Korean | 15 minutes | United States Premiere | Film Content Warning: Violence A young immigrant couple, rejected by family after an unwanted pregnancy, cling to each other as they confront a wrongful police suspicion that threatens to separate and deport them. ★ Khmerican | Jimmy Chhiu | 2026 | English | 20 minutes | Houston Premiere | Film Content Warning: Profanity, Violence, Substance abuse (drugs, alcohol, etc.), Content that is not suitable for children When wounded gangsters seek refuge in his father’s donut shop, a Cambodian-American teen striving to escape the gang violence and debts that plague his family is thrust into a life-or-death standoff that tests his loyalty, challenges his identity, and threatens his future. ★ Treading (Vùng Vẫy) | Truong Le Dinh | 2026 | English, Vietnamese | 25 minutes | World Premiere Following separation from his family, a non-English-speaking immigrant father struggles to adapt to a life of isolation in a foreign land.