INDIE SHORT FEST

A psycho who holds a mental illness card to be able to do anything and everything he wants: making a scene and not paying at a restaurant, taking someone else’s taxi, barging into a university, killing, and so on without any form of punishment. Yet, is he really ill, or is he just abusing the card? No one knows…
Directed by Angela Wang (China)

An elderly man named Sandy, is given the opportunity of a life time, a chance to start over, to be young again. However, this procedure comes at a great cost, his memory. Now Sandy must choose between himself and losing his estranged daughter Claire, the only family he has left.
Directed by Ryan Williamson (USA)

Simona gets out of a DUI by accepting a ride home from the cop, who turns out to be a security guard on a power trip. The more she learns about Richard Bland, the more she questions his true intentions.
Directed by Diliana Deltcheva (USA)

Simone, a college undergrad, discovers her true identity as she unexpectedly falls for Andrea, a graduate piano major. As the two dive deeper into romance, Simone is torn by her harbored feelings for her ex-boyfriend. Ultimately, she must choose between her familiar past or embrace her true identity and embark on a new chapter.
Directed by Alexi Papalexopoulos (USA)

An equipment malfunction disrupts Phillip’s routine interview leading to startling and potentially deadly revelations.
Directed by Shawn Young (USA)

Directed by Christopher Leong (USA)

After her life is torn apart by the ultimate betrayal, Lorraine Clark is ready to end it all. That’s when she meets Barry Maddox on a secluded hiking trail, setting off a string of events that will change both their lives forever. For every effect, there is a cause. Causality.
Directed by Ram Azur (USA)

“Jaded Pictures” is an intimate peek behind the facade of a relationship between social media famous celebrity icons Jada Anthony and her burgeoning musician boyfriend, Dallas Casey.
Directed by Mark David Christenson (USA)

A young girl faces eviction from her recently inherited and deteriorating property. Her only hope is the caretaker left with the property, a broken down old fighter, when a flyer for a cash prize fight contest begins to surface around the city.
Directed by David Scheinbaum (USA)

Humboldt County Directed by Siobhan Danger Darwish (USA)