LA Shorts International Film Festival

Heading to the East

By Alan Ng | August 2026

LA SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Heartbreak often shows up long before the goodbye, and that’s exactly where director Lisa Ranran…

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LA SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Heartbreak often shows up long before the goodbye, and that's exactly where director Lisa Ranran Hu...

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LA SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Brenda K. Wachel's In the Deep is about the stories we tell ourselves before facing the truth. How much...

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Dance With Me opens in a bombed-out home in Ukraine, where a young boy, Sasha (Logan Hannigan), sits alone eating the last can of food in the cupboard. He...

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Gossamer, from writer-director Hamish Sturgeon, is a short film about two people who can't run from their past as their present falls apart around...

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It's 2010, and Iran's government does something almost too strange to believe: it bans the mullet. Yes, that mullet. Shervin (Bobby Naderi) is an ordinary...

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Jonathan Heap's Ghosts of '45 is a quiet descent into what happens when a man's past refuses to stay buried, forcing him to finally confront it. Joseph...

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Late at night, Barbara (Emma Griffin) seeks a moment of quiet connection. Her partner Tony (Richard-John Seikaly) is deeply distracted, nose deep in a book...

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LA SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! In Yoruba folklore, there's a name for the demon that comes just as you're drifting into sleep....

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Presten Brooks' short film, Torn Together, reminds us how friendships from our youth can be the most difficult to maintain, and how life sweeps us...

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Co-directors Scarlet Moreno and Josh Stifter step into the squared circle with Little Lucha & the Big Deal, a scrappy 1980s-set wrestling tale about...

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