LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Learn more about the 8 nominees for Best Short of October, contenders for the special jury awards of this season. All award winners, from the different sections, will be announced shortly.
Directed by Elliot Etheridge (USA)
When Sunset Records’ biggest pop star storms into a meeting demanding a raise to buy a jacuzzi for his pet
Hangman follows Allali, a quiet student who sketches a game of hangman on a park bench. Through their inner thoughts,
The Hotline is a haunting, meditative look at opioid users connected through an anonymous phone line that acts as a
Magnet Brain is a dark comedy mockumentary about billionaire George Romero, who founded TMS, a company that uses magnets to
Filthy Animal is a short narrative film set in rural China during the early 2000s. It follows Daren, a human
A story about a teenage musical genius that is bullied, who has a secret admirer. A short story filled with
Anglela learns that a dream about a ballet dress is a premonition of things to come. Directed by Richard Culver
The story follows The Baku, an orphan raised to fight evil by “eating” ghosts, monsters and demons in mid-1800s California.