Hollyshorts Film Festival

Aurora

By Alan Ng | August 2026

HOLLYSHORTS 2026 REVIEW! Director Angad Aulakh’s Aurora sends one astronaut hurtling into the loneliest corner of space on a routine mission. The…

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HOLLYSHORTS 2026 REVIEW! Director Angad Aulakh's Aurora sends one astronaut hurtling into the loneliest corner of space on a routine mission. The mission...

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HOLLYSHORTS 2026 REVIEW! Nik Sysuev's short film Creators is a cautionary tale about the ugliest part of chasing social media clout. It's about turning...

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HOLLYSHORTS 2026 REVIEW! Recess at this typical middle school is about one thing: winners take all the dessert. It's the athletic All-Stars versus the...

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HOLLYSHORTS 2026 REVIEW! Director Luke LaFountaine's The Impression proves that you can size someone up in seconds, but that doesn't mean you're...

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HOLLYSHORTS 2026 REVIEW! There is that saying about walking a mile in another man's shoes before you judge him. Writer/director Jill V. Dae takes a clever,...

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HOLLYSHORTS 2026 REVIEW! Loneliness has a way of making you feel like nobody could ever understand what's happening on the inside, and that's the ache...

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The worst kind of fights are the ones you have to fight alone. That's the battle fought in director Natalie Schwan's short film, Last Stand at Butte City....

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Writer-director George Strayton's one-hour pilot The Skywalker has been named a finalist for Best TV Pilot at the 22nd Annual HollyShorts Film Festival,...

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HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL 2025 REVIEW! Boyfighter, written and directed by Julia Weisberg, follows bare-knuckled fighter Diego (Michael Mando) and his son,...

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HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL 2025 REVIEW! A Bear In The Woods, written and directed by Andrew Laurich, sees two people camping. Taylor (Mimi Michaels) and...

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