The following titles are the 2025–2026 Annual Awards Long List Finalists.
This year, 140 outstanding projects have been selected from a pool of 3,993 monthly finalists in competition between September 2024 and December 2025, representing 75 countries. These films showcase the strongest work across all genres featured by Indie Short Fest: narrative, documentary, animation, experimental, music projects, and more.
This long list will now be narrowed down to the Annual Nominees — typically 70 to 80 films — who will be screened during the 2025–2026 Annual Awards showcase at Regal Cinemas LA Live in late March or April 2026.
The list of Annual Nominees will be announced soon.
(+33) by Sean Nam (France)
(Almost) A Star by Keilah Ayum (USA)
20:15 México DF by Alejandro Di Meglio (Argentina)
27 Minutes by Alexander Sworik (Canada)
3 To Die by Mitch Yapko and Allen Rueckert (USA)
A King’s Curtain by Grant M Johnson (USA)
A Mother’s Promise by Heather Waters (USA)
A Thousand Years by Bryce Ferendo (USA)
A Very Crowded Room by Nate Wilburn (USA)
Aberrant by Marco Leung (USA)
Afters by Hannah Jane Doyon (USA)
Aguasal by Camila Pardo Cerezo (Mexico)
Alasong by Yun Yan Zeng (China)
All the Men’s Hangers by Sabrina Lassegue (USA)
An Idea That Sticks: The Story of Arthur Fry by Andrew Blike (USA)
Angels Trumpet by Nick Waraksa and Bryan Mir (USA)
Armor of the Heart by Duncan Bonnifay (France)
Ascendance by Hee Seung Chung (USA)
At The Mercy Of Faith by Andrew Arguello (USA)
Azul by Santos Arrué (USA)
Bad Fences by Luke Howe (USA)
Bad Survivor by Alex Dvorak and Katie North (USA)
Bartogay Lake by Katya Mokolo (France)
Belonging by Clément Oberto (Mexico/USA)
Between Waves by Wentao Liu (China)
Billie by Safi Tobi (UK)
Bleed by Nico Van Den Berg and Ilana Armida Simone (USA)
Bloody Belly by Simona Maria Strugari (Romania)
Blu’s by Rajesh PK (India)
Bobo In Bliss by Vivian Ip (USA)
C.Y.A by Guy Lifshitz (Israel)
Carbono by Alberto Arvizu and Yael Gonzalez (Mexico)
Christo The Civilized Barbarian by Shaddy Safadi (USA)
Chuño y Mote by Isabella Mancioli (Italy)
City of Smoke by Nadia Akbar and Alicia Chiang (India)
Clocking Out by Joshua Mueller (Germany)
Coconut + Pistol by Gregory Caruso (USA)
Come and Find Me by Carmine Carpenito (Switzerland)
Cottonmouth by Ama Anane (USA)
Dans by Maria Garcia (Mexico)
Ditto by Suresh G (India)
Dizzy by Zac La Roc (USA)
Dolldays by Morten Hansen (Norway)
Dream Addicts Anonymous by Ella Braff (USA)
Drive You Like A Cadillac by Ryan Maw, Sacha Carlson, and Skyler Poiley (USA)
Echoes by Sean Nam (France)
Egoli – Place of Gold by Martin Miron (Germany)
El Alma de la Sed by Colleen Ryan (Panama)
First Light by Kristopher Roller and Alex Broadstock (USA)
Focal Point by Raphael Buisson (USA)
Getting Back to You by Miranda Clapp (USA)
Glodok ’98 by Nicholas Tjen (USA)
Goldilocks by Susie Kim (USA)
Hard Boiled Eggs by Yi Meng (USA)
Hashran by Mohammed Alansary and Norah Mansor (Saudi Arabia)
He by Yihui Hu (USA)
Hecuba by Mason Leaver (USA)
Her Silent Feast by Qiongyao Shao (China)
Hermit Crab by Justin Roh (USA)
Hustlevania by Clayton Nepveux iii (USA)
Hysteria by Miriam Carlsen (Denmark)
I Am by Ivan Stepanov (Cyprus)
I Love You More Than Dinosaurs by Tyler Coon (USA)
I Never Give You My Pillow by Jonathan Hurtado (USA)
I Want It by Agnessa Simo (France)
Iss Taraf by Shrey Leena Shah (India)
It Was Only You by Eva Ariel Binder (USA)
Ker by Sajad Soleymani (Iran)
Lamento by Diego Contreras and Ernesto Abrego (USA)
Land of Forgotten Echoes by Layne Marie Williams (USA)
Last Encounters by Rosie Day (UK)
Last Words by Inez Franco (USA)
Less Than Three by Dan Martin, Sofia Pessoa Pádua, Mariana Cabecinha, and Cláudio Monteiro (Portugal)
Lottie by Bella Rieth (USA)
Melodies of the Abyss by Sam Iwata (Australia)
Mesmera by Brendyn Gilbert (USA)
Mustang by Dylan Hayes (USA)
My Dead Dad’s Funeral by Jamie Manelis (USA)
My Own Hair by Lauren Anderson (USA)
Nan by Lily Ellora Newton (USA)
Nothing But the End by Tanguy Pichon (Switzerland)
Once More, Like Rain Man by Sue Ann Pien (USA)
Once Upon A Time In My Village by Charlie S Tang (China)
Oopsy! by Sijin Liu (Taiwan/UK)
Outrage! by Ivette Ivanova (Bulgaria)
Paranoyya by Mike Glover (UK)
Past Perfect by Maria Besedova (Russia)
Patakha by Rohit Relan (USA)
Pining by David Jaffe (USA)
Poolboy by Haoran Ma (USA)
Praying for Love by Sofia Tonin (USA)
Public by Sam Knight (USA)
Pure by Bradley Peake (UK)
Rahyab by Kamal Weiss Rahyab (Afghanistan)
Raising Parents by Juan Haro, Riaan du Toit, and Nick Warring (USA)
Saeed’s Day by Mohammed Al Zawari (Saudi Arabia)
Salem Not Salem by Omar Farooq (Bahrain)
Satomi by Rayner Wang (Hong Kong/Japan/USA)
Say Something in German by Amit Barnathan and Mila Stephan (Germany/USA)
Sheroism by Wei Yi (China)
Silim by Alexander Cruz De Ocampo (USA)
Sing With Your Eyes, You Beautiful Mistake! by Joseph J Cash (USA)
Single for Life – Ava Della Pietra by Luke Orlando (USA)
Some Kind of Paradise by Nicholas Finegan (USA)
Some Things Can’t Wait by Vincent Jost (Germany)
Stimulants & Empathogens by Mateusz Pacewicz (Poland)
Streetlights – Scott Frenzel by Alissa Wyle (USA)
Strolling Down Brighton Pier by Kenny McCracken (UK)
Thank You for the Ride, Aileen by JP Pullings (USA)
Thanks For Eating Me by Louis English (UK)
The 7th Avenue by Roger Escalante (Spain)
The Crossing by Mike Tyus (USA)
The Day of Cucurbitaceae by Emilio Landi (USA)
The Father, The Daughter, and the Hostage by Itamar Kasirer (Israel)
The Gap by Karen Wilmer-West (USA)
The Gift of Talisman by Weixing Chen (China)
The Last Rehearsal by Carling Ernstzen (UK)
The Love of Sin by Shuai Zhang (China)
The Most Beautiful Among Mothers by Mahmoud Abu Jazi (Palestine)
The Mud Flower by Khushi Manish Gandhi (India)
The Oilfields by Nico Poalillo (USA)
The Pearl Comb by Ali Cook (UK)
The People, United by Ellen Gavin (USA)
The Sequence by Joe Bandelli (USA)
The Tenets of Belrose-Marr by Jett Ross Tessaro (USA)
The Voice of Despair by Nina Goldvin (Ukraine)
The Witch Pricker and the Hare by Brynn Mitchell (USA)
Thickly Settled by Brian D Jones and Jordan Brooks (USA)
Treu (Faithful) by Hansjoerg Thurn (Germany)
Two Sisters by Waleed Alqahtani (USA)
Unfair Routes by Giorgos Logothetis (Greece)
Union Avenue by Gino Cazzali (USA)
Unruly by David Ernesto Herrera (UK)
Watching Walter by Mitch Yapko (USA)
We’ve Been Trying to Reach You by Katharine Broyles (USA)
When Yin Meets Yang by Young-Ju Yoo (Netherlands)
Where the Rain Stops by Dojin Kim (South Korea)
Where The Shadows Wait by Riley Robbins (USA)
Whispers of Home by Sahar Ghorishi (USA)
White Hare by Inkyu Jee (South Korea)
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