Short Film

Villa 187

By Alan Ng | May 2026

Eiman Mirghani’s short film, Villa 187, is a film essay on home and, in her case, the home she and her family…

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Villa 187

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Eiman Mirghani's short film, Villa 187, is a film essay on home and, in her case, the home she and her family lived in for more than three decades. The...

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There was a time when scrappy filmmakers like Robert Rodriguez could go for broke and break through — just look at how El Mariachi came together. You'd...

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Light, written and directed by Daniel Talbott, starts with a man (Will Pullen) sitting in his car in a church parking lot, the radio blasting a sermon, a...

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In the mountains of 1853 California, two prospectors, Diego (Siya Maleki) and Manny (Alex Peña), are working their way through the wilderness looking for...

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The Sharp Point of Time

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Good Filipino Kids

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Writer/director Andrew Acedo's Good Filipino Kids asks a simple question: What does it mean to be a good Filipino kid? The answer, it turns out, is not...

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A Quiet Storm follows a family in suburban Tokyo where a mother's attention is spread across two sons with vastly different needs. The film centers on one...

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In his dramatic short film Anxiety, Canadian filmmaker Vladyslav Fidryk serves as co-director, writer, and star. He plays Alex, a young artist suffering...

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The Floor Remembers

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In a city that tears itself down and rebuilds every decade, one roller rink in Kendall, Florida, has quietly refused to disappear. Writer/director Jayme...

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