The following projects are the annual finalists of 2024.
This year, the long list has 180 projects, chosen from the pool of the 12 monthly round finalists between August 2023 and August 2024, namely 4054 films from 64 countries overall. The shortlisted projects represent the different genres in competition at the festival.
The annual finalists are placed in the top 4,4% of the year.
The long list will be narrowed now to lead to the annual nominees’ list (typically about 70/80 projects), the films that will be screened late February or March 2025 at Regal Cinemas LA Live, during the 2024/2025 Annual Awards.
See also
2024/2025 Annual Awards: Finalists (Long List 2)
2024/2025 Annual Awards: Finalists (Long List 3)
2024/2025 Annual Awards: Finalists (Long List 4)
5 Minutes by Ivana Rauchmann (Austria)
A Life Well Lived by Asger Folmann (USA)
A Tale of Earl Gray by Michael King (USA)
Absumo by Emile Biegel (France)
Adam & Eve by Kim Young Sik, Byun Yoonjeong, and Kim Hyungbin (South Korea)
After Us by Alexandre Szuren (France)
Alien – Luli by Anna Leijonhielm (Norway)
Alone In My Dreams by John Frost (USA)
Alpha 27 by Nick Azzaro (USA)
Àsaka by D (Edduardo Viera) (Spain)
Ashes Ashes We All Fall Down by Brooke Trantor (USA)
Azadi by Anshul Vijayvargiya (India)
Behind the Mask by Liren Zhang (China)
Beverly Hills Exorcist by Rem Scobell (USA)
Beyond Lesser Things by David Schaupp (USA)
Blaupause by Philomena Petzenhammer (Germany)
Blue Marks by Gal Salomon (Israel)
Brooklyn by Timur Guseynov (USA)
Brotherly Blood by Alejandra Lopez (USA)
Canary by Denali Chin (USA)
Canelo by Jordi Ayguasenosa and David Calderón (Mexico)
Casa Paraíso by Mateo Sicilia (USA)
Catacombs by Chad Cunningham (USA)
Chain by Ling Han (USA)
Cherry Kompot by Teddy Robert Schaffer (USA)
Chinatown Cowboy by Jaafar Alnabi (USA)
Chum by Jason King (Australia)
Circulation by Yun Yan Zeng (China)
Come Another Day by Molin Liu (USA)
CR7 by Azad Chandran Anesh (India)
Critterz by Chad Nelson (USA)
Cry Like a Guy by Anthony Rubinstein (UK)
Cub by Noa Yakobov (Israel)
Daddy by Toni Weiss (Austria)
Dawn Ready by Jennifer Jo Cawley (USA)
Daylight by Peter Cornwell (USA)
Don’t Worry Grandma by Romain Meurquin (France)
Dreamers Never Learn by Paolo Wriedt (Canada)
Driftwood by Christopher Hills Eaton (USA)
Easy Action by Angela Vasquez (USA)
Eggs by Sarah Corean (USA)
Ego – Ava Della Pietra by Adam Lukowski (USA)
El Pulmo by Marcus Kronemeyer and Begona Felix (Mexico)
Elisai by Sabrina Joseph (UK)
Elixir by Marcus Mills (UK)
See also
2024/2025 Annual Awards: Finalists (Long List 2)
2024/2025 Annual Awards: Finalists (Long List 3)
2024/2025 Annual Awards: Finalists (Long List 4)
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