LA Shorts International Film Festival

Ogun Oru

By Alan Ng | August 2026

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

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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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Betty & Mary: The Actors Prepare, directed by America Young, middle-aged actress Betty (screenwriter Dana Lyn Baron) rehearses for a minor audition...

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Set in the final hours of 1959, All Us Animals centers on June (Lexa Gluck), who hosts a New Year’s Eve party with her husband Wolfie (Nick Puya). As the...

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In Alex Loucas' short, Semblance, when life comes crashing around, the next logical question is...what's next? A young woman, Lavender, was just fired from...

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Christian Loubek's short film, Belief, is a powerful story about rising up in life by overcoming the obstacles in front of you and the obstacles that are...