Ashes and Grace

2025 Official Selection: Short Film- Drama

Peter returns home to seek reconciliation with his comatose mother.

Director(s): Mac Pettit

Writer(s): Mac Pettit

Producer(s): Manan Choudhry

Key Cast: Rebecca Berinbaum, Erik Kavanagh, Ivan Sorokin

Country: Canada

Los Angeles Premiere

Dark Matter

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

A disabled wheelchair user tries to solve the biggest question in physics, a solution to the theory of everything, while struggling with the cigarette butts and other rubbish falling onto his apartment balcony from the neighbours above.

Director(s): Leo Berkeley

Writer(s): Leo Berkeley

Producer(s): Leo Berkeley

Key Cast: Leo Berkeley

Country: Australia

Los Angeles Premiere

Pace

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

As a boxer wrestles with the decision to transition at the potential cost of their marriage, they form a bond with another boxer on a similar journey of self evolution.

Director(s): Beck Williams

Writer(s): Beck Williams

Producer(s): Shannon Elizabeth Clark, Aaron Krimetz, Rainn Wilson, Bernadett York, Nas Albizuris, Autumn Ivy, David Florin

Key Cast: Bex Taylor-Klaus, Beck Williams, Kelly Lou Dennis, Veto Swarn

Country: United States

Sometimes I Imagine Your Funeral

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

As Max prepares to eulogize his sister Chloe just minutes before her funeral, he wrestles with the anger, frustration, and grief of losing her to an overdose, attempting to understand who Chloe was.

Director(s): Vince Dixon

Writer(s): Vince Dixon

Producer(s): Alyssa Callahan, Seth Woodhouse, Gabriel Donnelly

Key Cast: Josiah Sergeant, Samantha Ryan, Brooklynn Walker, Michael Mann, Angus Caldwell, Genevieve Jane, Leanne Johnson, Mac Williams, Jessie Pettit

Country: United States