A wild chase through Chicago leads Star to confront his deepest fears.

Created by Ahlaam Yasmin.
Part of the Filmmaker's Mixtape #FM12for12 Challenge.

A young Black man rustles at a kitchen table in the middle of the night. He begins to reflect on the passage of time with his chosen family, and scenes appear. Roles to one another shift as our emotional and physical realities change in the same intimate, everyday space. Inspired by Carrie Mae We...

Brenden traces his lineage and connects the thread that sews us all together– “I am because we are”.

Created by Brenden Smith.
Part of the Filmmaker's Mixtape #FM12for12 Challenge

An experimental short film about presence, perspective, and love.

Created by Brenden Smith.
Part of the Filmmaker's Mixtape #FM12for12 Challenge.

Deana is excited to meet the new man in her bestie's life. A surprise awaits them all.

Created by Sydney Hart.
Part of the Filmmaker's Mixtape #FM12for12 Challenge.

Annie is 35, terminally ill, and has never had sex. Her sister Essie refuses to let that be Annie’s legacy. Armed with binoculars, bad advice, and a joint, Essie launches Annie into a search for intimacy.

As Annie grapples with mortality and the feeling that life passed her by, the sisters find ...

At the onset of the development of Chicago's newest A.I “Quantum Facility,” community organizers and local residents speak out about the impact.

Created by: Javonna "JAH" Hines
Part of the Filmmaker's Mixtape #FM12for12 Challenge.

rev·er·ie /ˈrev(ə)rē/ a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream

Created by Ashley Tyler.
Part of the Filmmaker's Mixtape #FM12for12 Challenge.

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

Created by Ashley Tyler.
Part of the Filmmaker's Mixtape #FM12for12 Challenge.

Nyx and Joy are having trouble sleeping. Are you too? Let’s all try and find some rest together.

Created by: jellystone robinson.
Part of the Filmmaker's Mixtape #FM12for12 Challenge.

Short film created by Kin Marie as a part of Brave Futures: Memory As Medicine.

Through the noise of work, memorial planning, distractions from her younger sister Zeniyah and an unexpected visit from her cousins - Maia discovers she's not meant to grieve alone.

Short film created by Rraine Hanson as a part of Brave Futures: Memory As Medicine.
Starring: Tree, Staz, and Mr. Dacres

A young trans man has made himself sick. He was doing way too much, not listening to his body, ignoring his intuition and now he is in bed with a flu. But we don’t know that ...

Short film created by Jabu Nadia Newman as a part of Brave Futures: Memory As Medicine.

Performance is a process of allowing lived experiences to move from unconscious weight to conscious expression. It becomes a bridge between inner life and outer expression. Which is like a place where we can...

A Black woman develops a connection to an Arab man who works in a bodega, in the midst of a tragedy.

Originally conceived as a short story, "Noor" has undergone several revisions towards its current iteration as a high-stakes, timely romance with subtle commentary on human rights and cross-cult...

CONTENT WARNING: sexual content, vulgar/oppressive language, blood/gore

A disillusioned human/vampire hybrid, takes on escorting to survive a changing society.

Horror drama short by Kyle Hinton.

Kyle is an unapologetically Black nonbinary screenwriter from the suburbs of Chicago, who aspires...

Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, killed by the NYPD on Staten Island in 2014, channels her grief into a yearslong fight for justice, drawing international media attention. When the news cameras go away, she surrounds herself with photos of lost loved ones in her home to restore her strength ...

Oríkì Oshun is an experimental short film that honors the Orisha Oshun, a central figure in Yoruba cosmology and spirituality. Rooted in the Yoruba tradition of oríkì—a performative act of praise that invokes the essence, attributes, and destiny of a person, place, or deity—this film reimagines t...

Short film created by Syrian animator and filmmaker Ashtar Alahmad (she/her) as a part of #BraveFutures Barcelona with the prompt: "Cultivating a Protopia — Imagining and creating a future where technology serves the collective good, not just the privileged few."

In a world already steeped in q...

Short film created by interdisciplinary artists Matheus Mello (they/them) and Bruna Kury (she/they) as a part of #BraveFutures Barcelona with the prompt: "Reimagining A.I. as Ancestral Intelligence — Rethinking A.I. as a reflection of the interconnected wisdom of cultures and communities."

An a...

Short fim created by artist, poet, and creative director Alejandra Estefania as a part of #BraveFutures Barcelona with the film prompt: "Reimagining A.I. as Ancestral Intelligence — Rethinking A.I. as a reflection of the interconnected wisdom of cultures and communities."

Dialed In is a 5-minut...

Short film created by filmmaker and producer Alexandra Delgado Barrientos as a part of #BraveFutures Barcelona with the film prompt: "Cultivating a Protopia — Imagining and creating a future where technology serves the collective good, not just the privileged few."

An immersive journey shows us...

Short film created by Spanish filmmaker, director, and producer Ruth Zapico (she/her) as a part of #BraveFutures Barcelona with the prompt: "Reimagining A.I. as Ancestral Intelligence — Rethinking A.I. as a reflection of the interconnected wisdom of cultures and communities."

In a future where ...

Short film created by Lebanese-born, Paris-based filmmaker and visual artist Hadi Moussally as a part of #BraveFutures Barcelona with the film prompt: "Cultivating a Protopia — Imagining and creating a future where technology serves the collective good, not just the privileged few."

Abjad Ḥawaz...

Short film created by and starring #OTVAtlas Ambassador Makeda M. Declet.

Diane is grieving. Her mom passed away and now she hates the world. After her car is towed, a down-on-her-luck Uber Eats driver signs up for a mysterious new gig App.

In a health clinic in 2040, when Earth’s become a feminist utopia, Octavia shows Mel how to use the Abortion App on her Clock. This biometric device, invented by Octavia gives women precise control over their reproductive system. When Mel pries into the history of the Clock's invention, she tears...

An elderly Creole woman’s life is bound to her flesh-eating garden. When Edette unexpectedly befriends a young girl before her next sacrifice, she must choose between killing her new friend or dying alongside her beloved garden.

Created by Jonathan Andre Culliton (director, co-writer, producer) and Marval Rex (co-writer). Produced by Zackary Drucker.

Trans best friends Sean and Tahmina head into the woods for what’s one of Sean’s post-breakup vacations. But their plans for nature and relaxation unravel quickly when the...

A painful exploration of social media’s role in rendering users as passive spectators.

A young girl learns of her mother’s survival of the Tokyo Firebombing through her brother’s eyes.

Horror film written and directed by Sharena Sigmon, produced by Angellic Ross.

A Black pregnant woman fears her vicious dreams predict her and her unborn child's untimely demise.

Official selection for the Chicago Horror Film Festival where it won Best Chicago Director and Best Actress
Official...

In 'Kairos', the precarious nature of work-life balance manifests in its most extreme form; literal life or death triggered by productivity rates. Add the pressures of raising a rambunctious child alone and the main protagonist, Greg Chen, now faces the perfect concoction of disasters waiting to ...

A white male artist indulges in his love of the female form. That love is tainted when the fetishized Black female subjects make a choice to admire their own beauty.

An American girl living in South Africa to take care of her sickly grandmother creates imaginary friends to cope with her loneliness but when her grandmother dies, her guilt manifests in her friends who quickly become her enemies.

Located in Southern Utah, just outside of the Navajo and Ute Nations, Hunt’s Trading Post is an irreplaceable gem and third space operated by the charismatic Wayne Day, an enrolled Navajo Nation citizen. Hunt’s carries on the multi-generational legacy of the Days and the Hunts — two family lineag...

Short film coming by Florencia Manóvil.

A cranky Gen X butch is forced to spend time with a disaffected zoomer who seems to represent everything that bugs her about "kids today".

The Dream The Refused Me is split across four aesthetically distinct chapters that ties together myths, attitudes, and rituals from across Africa. Powerful and emotionally stirring, a Xhosa poem narrated by Siyabonga Jim creates draws a narrative line between the ancestral specters and incandesce...

Pablo is in love with his best friend Héctor, but must console him for a breakup and be his shoulder to cry on. This story is familiar to Alam, who seeks to prevent his friend from falling into a game that seems to repeat itself frequently.

When a lonely suburban pool reminisces about its life and the humans in it, it starts to bring up fond memories of Ari and Connell, a young couple who first fell in love by the edge of the Pool’s water.

LA Shorts Fest (2023), Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (2023), SydFest Independent Film Fe...

A writer-director struggles with her profound sense of loss after the sudden death of her father, who dies while visiting his homeland of India. Hena wrestles with coming to terms with their strained relationship, by the only way she knows how: making a film.

Dharamshala International Film Festi...

A weekend “Gaycation” is interrupted when a group of Queer best friends discover their lake house got double booked with a fratty bachelor party. An ensemble comedy about party fouls and Queerness in the South.

Indianapolis LGBTQ Film Festival
London International Short Film Festival
Short Film ...

CONTENT WARNING: Nudity, Suicide

Space and time distort within the splintering mind of a young transgender woman as her relationship slips away from her. Six months after a suicide attempt, Grace feels another psychotic break coming on. She tries to hide her mental instability from her trans par...

Experimental film by Jordan Deal.

"Wetlands of our Mother's Tongues in concrete" is an experimental film that explores the notions of transness, motherhood, and time & space travel. The narrators, Jordan Deal and Ivonne Perez, find themselves dispersed between the channels of the ocean, fragment...

Still not over a past relationship, a singer looks back on his memories through a VHS tapes to reconcile his nostalgia over lost love.

Production Company: Bouy Flms (@bouyfilms)
Dir/Dp/Editor: Ricardo Bouyett (@ricbouy)
Line Producer/Production Designer: Daisy Cardenas (@DaysDC)
Set Designer/PA:...

A Virtual reality designed so the mind and body can’t differentiate virtual experiences from real.

A wicked dessert is enjoyed in a dream world.

Woman faces aspects of her grief while driving through Chicago.

Produced by Brain Studios in Association with Birchman Productions

“CHAOS” centers the life of Young Jasmine, a high school junior grappling with the complexities of love, identity, and societal pressures such as colorism, fat-phobia and desirability politics at a young age. The video
is divided...

"Starter Kit" by Nina Tech became the 2nd ever music video produced and (co)directed by Kin Marie. The concept of Good vs. Bad Nina came together to be the first installment of the 'Nina Gone Bad' mixtape rollout that lasted 2019 until October of 2020.

*Starring:* Yna and Cee Pham
*Directed by:* Sophie Chevako and Yna
*Produced by:* Cee Pham
*Assistant Directors:*
Cee Pham & Mariana Belaval (Day One)
Teya Sainz de Aja (Day Two)
*Choreographer:* Emily Rivera De La Cruz
*Cinematographer: *Sophie Chevako
*Gaffer/AC: *Evan Thompson
*Grips/Acs: *Osc...

For all women in time. A visual love letter through eras—on silence, selfhood, and choosing again.

Laura is frantically trying to get ready for an unexpected booty call when she finds herself transported into a magical forest of trippy sensuality and fairy-fueled self exploration. Suddenly the booty call is the last thing on her mind.

Music written by Maggie Kubley
Performed and Produced by ...

Latin soul music video by Angela Townsend. A young woman and her friends teach a man to respect her "no".

The Secret Life of Dandelions is a song about resilience and about making it through tight spaces. This song is a part of Roy Kinsey's 11th album, "Dandelions: Gods Don't Cry," which released April 25, 2025.

Drama by Florencia ManóviI.

A night out drinking with friends turns into an eye-opening evening when young Claudia encounters the captivating foreigner Isabel, who challenges her perceptions of latinos - and her understanding of herself.

Experimental short by Colombian filmmaker Daniel Mateo Vallejo Gutiérrez.

Keisi wakes up one morning with the obsession of escaping into the thick of nature that has been stalking her lately. The art gallery she works for is her nightmare while an exhibited photograph there, her fantasy.

A drama about healing, acceptance, and forgiveness by Janine Anne Uyanga.

Following Ray's top surgery, intimate moments with their chosen family are interrupted by the news of their father's stroke, but returning home to see him would mean confronting Ray's estranged mother.

Poetry Narrative by Femi Adebowale.

Black Queer Futures asks the question of what young Black Queer people could be if they had access to limitless inspiration. Through Simi, we see the power of showing young Black Queer people that they have infinite possibility and power in who they want to be.

Without daylight, humans live with bionic ocular implants in medical colonies run by WIZDOM biotech.

WIZDOM FILM CREDITS:
Directed by Layne Marie Williams
Written by Ashton Giaume & Zack Sievers
Created by Ashton Giaume, Zack Sievers, Layne Marie Williams
Executive Producers Alex Pissios, Stanle...

After three months of careful preparation, it’s finally the night to carry out their mission. Marcy and Odi ready themselves to attend the 18th century ball of an overtly rich prison owner. If riding the high stakes of disabling his plans were not enough, their unprofessional feelings for each ot...

Dramatic mystery by Gabi Morbeck.

Marisa, after waking up to a call from her mother, finds herself immersed in introspection amidst mysterious events. She is startled by a strange sound of the sea, something unusual since moving to her husband’s city.

When Marisa investigates the source of the ...