Shook
USA / Dark Comedy / 12 minutes

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Director/Writer: Valentina von Klencke

Producer: Ani Schroeter, Allegra Isenberg, Gia Rigoli

Cast: Phoebe Grant, Ben Irving, Cheryl Canty

Following a massive earthquake in the California desert, a family's getaway to a luxurious rental home turns into an existential crisis.

Play Again
USA / Animation / 12 minutes

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Director/Writer: Zen Pace

Producer: Hilary Smith, Brady Bonser

Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Fabrizio Guido, Miss Benny

In "Play Again," Javi, grieving their father's untimely death, discovers his old Xbox and is transported into a nostalgic game, encountering Dad's Ghost Car.

Edmund
USA / Sci-fi / 5 minutes

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Director/Writer: James Frost

Producer: Gabriel Younes, James Frost

Cast: Casey LaRois, Gordon Hardwood

In an increasingly divided society once co-inhabited with species from other planets, Edmund decides it’s time for him to leave this increasingly volatile planet, the planet Earth, and return home.

Let Us Out
USA / Horror / 10 minutes

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Director/Writer: Chris Allan

Producer: Riley Burt, Nathan Cha, Cathy Baecher-Scholz

Cast: Kat Eaton, Kirsten Hansen

A struggling painter begins to question her own sanity when her latest nightmarish creation inexplicably escapes its canvas.

Driving There
USA / Drama / 21 minutes

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Director/Writer: Marlaina Smith

Producer: Marlaina Smith

Cast: Luke Dimyan, Marlaina Smith

A young man, driving through the desert, can't bring himself to eat a pb&j.

Silhouette
USA / Drama / 6 minutes

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Director/Writer: Melika Jamshidabadi

Producer: Aram Manafi

Cast: Paul Doyle

Survivors guilt tearjerker set in a bombed high school. The schools elderly, likable janitor was absent; his daughter was not. How to cope? By resuming janitorial duties. Later, something triggers him to snap out of it.

Edge Of Space
USA / Drama / 19 minutes

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Director/Writer: Jean de Meuron

Producer: Jean de Meuron, Nic Emiliani, Elena Bawiec

Cast: Chad Michael Collins, Kimberly Alexander, Freedom Bridgewater

Set in 1961 during the height of the space race between the US and Soviet Union, an ambitious USAF test pilot is recruited by NASA for a daring suborbital mission in a X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft with astronomical implications.