LA Shorts International Film Festival

The Idea

By Alan Ng | October 2026

Based on Raymond Carver’s short story “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?”, filmmaker Henry Chastain’s The Idea tells a cautionary tale about…

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Based on Raymond Carver's short story "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?", filmmaker Henry Chastain's The Idea tells a cautionary tale about personal...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! It's 2010, and Iran's government does something almost too strange to believe: it bans the mullet. Yes, that...

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Jiacheng Wang’s The Eyeire is a highly crafted, visually rich experimental film that explores an existential emotional state and the philosophy of being,...

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In comedy, a fine line separates brilliance from stupidity. Will Dustin Muenchow's comedy short, Bladez, find its comedic footing or fall into the abyss of...

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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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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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