35th Florida Film Festival Announces Lineup Of 160+ Films, Special Events With Paul Giamatti, Judge Reinhold

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EXCLUSIVE: The Florida Film Festival has announced nan lineup for its 35th edition, a slate that includes 2 twelve world premieres and 2 typical “An Evening With…” events, 1 featuring Paul Giamatti and different pinch Judge Reinhold.

The festival, group to tally April 10-19 successful nan Central Florida area, will footwear disconnected pinch Adam Carter Rehmeier’s Carolina, Caroline, starring Samara Weaving and Kyra Sedgwick. Over Your Dead Body, head Jorma Taccone’s comedic action movie starring Jason Segal, Nikolai Kinski, and Kayla Radomski will return nan festival’s Centerpiece slot. The Hitchcock classical Strangers connected a Train will service arsenic nan festival’s closing nighttime selection, honoring nan film’s 75th anniversary.

In all, FFF will showcase 161 films from astir nan globe. World premieres see Ahmed Bouchalga’s The Call, Costa Karalis’ Frogtown, Woodruff Laputka and Tehben Dean’s The Man Whom nan Trees Loved, Randy Moore’s Return From Tomorrow, Paul Oh’s Correspondence, and Jessica Li’s Peace Corps. Scroll for nan afloat lineup.

Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen successful 'The Christophers'

Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen successful ‘The Christophers’ Neon

Other salient selections see The Christophers, nan latest from head Steven Soderbergh; I Want Your Sex, directed by Gregg Araki; Poetic License from debut head Mauda Apatow; Cookie Queens from head Alysa Nahmias, and Tuner, nan debut fictional movie by Oscar-winning filmmaker Daniel Roher (Navalny).

Judge Reinhold and Paul Giamatti

Judge Reinhold and Paul Giamatti Getty Images/Florida Film Festival

Sideways, nan superb 2004 dramedy by Alexander Payne starring Paul Giamatti, will surface arsenic portion of “An Evening With…” ceremony of Giamatti. Amy Heckerling’s Fast Times astatine Ridgemont High, nan 1982 drama that helped motorboat Judge Reinhold, will surface astatine nan show arsenic portion of “An Evening With…” nan character besides known for nan Beverly Hills Cop movies, Stripes, and connected tv successful nan memorable Seinfeld “Close Talker” episode.

The FFF documentary lineup features Seized, directed by Sharon Leise; Never Get Busted, directed by David Anthony Ngo; Tasha Van Zandt’s A Life Illuminated, and Patrick Xavier Bresnan’s First They Came for My College, among different titles.

Florida Film Festival Executive Director Wade Neal commented, “This Florida Film Festival will beryllium my first arsenic nan caller Executive Director, and I’m thrilled to beryllium portion of a squad that has made nan show 1 of nan astir exciting, good curated, and outrageously nosy successful nan state for 35 years. We return nan position that movie is eternal, and is simply a ultimate storytelling model that creates deeper understanding, togetherness, and penetration than different creation forms. By coming together to observe nan activity and talent that each movie represents, we grant bonzer filmmakers that transportation nan powerfulness and magic of movie forward.”

FFF Programming Director Matthew Curtis added, “We couldn’t beryllium much excited astir this year’s program, which is definite to beryllium 1 of nan strongest we’ve ever done. Storytellers from each complete nan world will beryllium showcasing their activity during our 10-day ceremony of bonzer voices and creatives successful cinema today, pinch astir films making their Florida premiere pinch america and galore having their World, North American, U.S., and East Coast arsenic well. New developments for twelvemonth 35 see our inaugural ‘Festival Centerpiece’ screening, arsenic good arsenic nan first-ever characteristic to beryllium included successful Sunspots: New Visions of nan Avant-Garde, our experimental programme featuring dazzling activity from renegade movie artists you’ll seldom spot anyplace other connected nan large screen. The 35th yearly Florida Film Festival genuinely has thing for everyone, and movie lovers everyplace should get fresh to laugh, cry, and person their minds blown.”

Florida Film Festival 2026 Official Selections

OPENING NIGHT PRESENTATION

Carolina Caroline                               

Director: Adam Carter Rehmeier / Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min

A small-time hustler (Kyle Gallner) and a small-town woman (Samara Weaving) embark connected a sexy, kinetic roadworthy travel successful hunt of an American dream to telephone their own. But what originates pinch a fewer stolen twenties soon spirals beyond their control.

CENTERPIECE PRESENTATION

Over Your Dead Body                         

Director: Jorma Taccone / Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min

A dysfunctional mates (Jason Segel and Samara Weaving) caput to a distant compartment to supposedly reconnect, but each has concealed plans to termination nan different successful this riotously convulsive drama from SNL alumnus Jorma Taccone (Popstar, MacGruber) that co-stars Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis.

CLOSING NIGHT PRESENTATION

Strangers connected a Train (1951)                            

Director: Alfred Hitchcock / Country: USA ; Running Time: 101 min

Nominated for an Oscar® for Best Cinematography and co-scripted by legendary enigma writer Raymond Chandler from nan caller by Patricia Highsmith, this timeless suspense classical is 1 of Hitchcock’s masterpieces. When an amateur tennis prima whose wife won’t grant him a divorce, and a charming but psychotic mama’s boy who hates his father, meet on a commuter train, nan speech turns to a possibly perfect crime: what if each committed a execution for nan other? Special 75th Anniversary showing! 

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

The Call                                                           World Premiere

Director: Ahmed Bouchalga / Countries: USA/Morocco; Running Time: 70 min

Orlando “arts instigator” Terry Olson takes an bonzer travel crossed Morocco, retracing nan footsteps of nan historical Green March—a serene telephone of unity that still echoes 50 years later. 

Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher                                  

Directors: Dan Deller, Dayna Goldfine / Country: USA/UK; Running Time: 118 min

What if nan astir important personification successful stone and rotation history is someone you’ve never heard of?  Meet Peter Asher—Sixties popular star, Apple Records pioneer and behind-the-scenes brilliant who shaped California’s singer/songwriter era. Even better, he’s the ocular inspiration for Austin Powers! This joyous, cabaret-fueled romp done six decades of Asher’s philharmonic history is simply a time-machine treat that’s impossible to resist. Yeah, baby! 

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)                        

(Screening pinch An Evening With Judge Reinhold)                     

Director: Amy Heckerling / Country: USA; Running Time: 120 min

Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is simply a pretty, but inexperienced, teen willing successful dating. Given proposal by her uninhibited friend, Linda Barrett (Phoebe Cates), Stacy gets trapped successful a emotion triangle pinch bully feline Mark Ratner (Brian Backer) and his much assured buddy Mike Damone (Robert Romanus). Meanwhile, Stacy’s classmate Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn), who lives for surfing and being stoned, faces disconnected against Mr. Hand (Ray Walston), a strict coach who has nary clip for nan slacker’s antics.

Frogtown                                                         World Premiere

Director: Costa Karalis / Country: USA; Running Time: 86 min

Set successful a mini Florida municipality and told from nan POV of a documentary movie crew, Frogtown is a unsocial genre-bending movie blurring fabrication and documentary realism, which explores an big woman’s quest to beryllium nan beingness of a magical swamp animal she befriended arsenic a child. 

The Man Whom nan Trees Loved                     World Premiere

Directors: Woodruff Laputka, Tehben Dean / Country: USA; Running Time: 73 min

As her hubby originates to mysteriously gaffe distant into nan trees surrounding their picnic cabin, Sophia descends into condolences and fear of losing him forever. Adapted from Algernon Blackwood’s supernatural novella, The Man Whom nan Trees Loved is a ghostly communicative of nan inexplicable horrors of nature.  

Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers                       

Director: John H. Cunnigham / Country: USA; Running Time: 92 min

Sun, salt, and afterparty chaos powerfulness this archive of Jimmy Buffett and his scruffy first band. Mixing chaotic circuit stories, reefer-soaked “heavy artillery” years, and Jeff Bridges Dude-style narration, moreover nan acheronian moments consciousness nosy successful a buoyant, flip-flop imagination that fans will want to toast. 

Sideways

(Screening pinch An Evening With Paul Giamatti)

Director Alexander Payne / Country: USA; Running Time: 124 min

A wine-soaked roadworthy travel done California’s Santa Ynez Valley provides a brace of affable but mismatched friends—disillusioned writer Miles (Paul Giamatti) and carefree soon-to-be-married character Jack (Thomas Hayden Church)—with an unexpected opportunity to face wherever they are successful life and what they genuinely want earlier time, and opportunity, walk them by.

Summer Tour                         

Director: Mischa Richter / Country: USA; Running Time: 82 min

This dreamy emotion missive follows young Jerry and Annie arsenic they pursuit Dead & Company’s last 2023 circuit successful a questionable camper van. Neither was live erstwhile Jerry Garcia walked the earth—yet present they are, barefoot and gloriously unbothered, organizing their lives astir nan euphony pinch an strength that demands respect alternatively than mockery. Looking for a miracle? Get connected nan bus.

SPOTLIGHT FEATURES

The Christophers                               

Director: Steven Soderberg / Countries: UK/USA; Running Time: 100 min

The estranged children of celebrated creator Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) attack struggling creator Lori Butler (I May Destroy You’s Michaela Coel) pinch a superb plan: Lori is to airs arsenic Julian’s caller adjunct while utilizing her art-forging skills to secretly complete his bid of long-abandoned paintings known as “The Christophers.” As nan 2 shape a tentative connection, nan grift is soon threatened successful this sharply witty and entertaining caller drama from Oscar®-winner Steven Soderbergh.  

Cookie Queens                                   

Director: Alysa Nahmias / Country: USA; Running Time: 91 min

A joyous and funny ceremony of girlhood and nan complexities that travel pinch it, Cookie Queens is a heartwarming coming-of-age communicative that follows 4 tenacious fledgling entrepreneurs—ages 5 to twelve—and their families arsenic they navigate nan yearly whirlwind of selling, striving, and succeeding during Girl Scout Cookie season. 

I Swear                       

Director: Kirk Jones / Country: UK; Running Time: 120 min

Funny, frank, and profoundly human, I Swear tells nan inspirational existent communicative of John Davidson, a trailblazer whose honesty and joke helped nan world amended understand what it intends to unrecorded pinch Tourette syndrome. Winner of nan BAFTA for Best Actor (Robert Aramayo) and nan latest classical British crowd-pleaser from Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine). 

I Want Your Sex                                  

Director: Gregg Araki / Country: USA; Running Time: 90 min

Gregg Araki’s (The Doom Generation) latest film, I Want Your Sex, is simply a bold seductive comedy-thriller starring Olivia Wilde arsenic a transgressive creator whose caller adjunct (Cooper Hoffman) becomes her muse. Premiering astatine Sundance, this provocative, darkly funny communicative of art, obsession, and powerfulness marks a vibrant comeback for nan iconic indie auteur. 

Normal                        

Director: Ben Wheatley / Countries: USA/Canada; Running Time: 90 min

In this darkly comedic action thriller from head Ben Wheatley (High-Rise, FFF 2016) and nan writer of John Wick, Bob Odenkirk stars arsenic a caller sheriff whose simple assignment unravels aft a botched robbery proves that everything successful nan quiet municipality of Normal, Minnesota, is thing but!  

Obsession                              

Director: Curry Barker / Country: USA; Running Time: 108 min

From YouTuber Curry Barker (Milk & Serial) comes Obsession, nan twisted communicative of Bear (Michael Johnston) who uses a seemingly innocuous “One Wish Willow” trinket to triumph nan emotion of his crush (Inde Navarrette). But beryllium observant what you wish for… 

Poetic License                        

Director: Maude Apatow / Country: USA; Running Time: 117 min

Two inseparable champion friends (Cooper Hoffman and Andrew Barth Feldman) spot their lives commencement to unravel erstwhile they compete for nan affection of nan middle-aged joined mom (Leslie Mann) auditing their assemblage poesy class. Deeply affectionate and laugh-out-loud funny, this delightful drama is nan directorial debut of Maude Apatow. 

Tuner                          

Director: Daniel Roher / Countries: Canada/USA; Running Time: 109 min

Oscar®-winning documentarian Daniel Roher’s (Navalny) first communicative feature, Tuner, dazzles pinch its whip-smart book and delightful operation of genre elements—odd-couple friendship, tense high-concept thriller, and charming romance. Leo Woodall (Nuremberg) stars arsenic Niki, a talented young soft tuner pinch a unsocial auditory condition, who draws nan attraction of criminals who spot his talents arsenic useful for opening safes. Dustin Hoffman, Tovah Feldshuh, and Jean Reno co-star successful this quick-witted heist flick. 

You Had to Be There: How nan Toronto Godspell Ignited nan Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed nan World (in a Canadian Kind of Way)

Director: Nick Davis / Countries: Canada/USA; Running Time: 98 min

This fascinating and hilarious documentary takes america backmost to nan legendary 1972 Toronto accumulation of Godspell, nan “hippie musical” astir nan life of Jesus, that ignited a drama gyration since nan formed included Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, Victor Garber, and philharmonic head Paul Shaffer. 

COMPETITION NARRATIVE FEATURES

Crystal Cross                         

Director: Richie James Follin / Country: USA; Running Time: 88 min

In Richie James Follin’s Crystal Cross, an adorable Christian singer and a suicidal dada thrust cross-country, forging an oddball enslaved done bad decisions, bizarre roadside attractions, and a terrific all-original soundtrack. A bittersweet communicative of 2 mislaid souls uncovering comfort, but not salvation, successful each other’s messes. 

Damned if you Do                               

Directors: Evan Metzold, Jake Rubin / Country: USA; Running Time: 107 min

Years aft selling their souls to nan devil, a fractured group of friends reunite for their 25th precocious schoolhouse reunion to exploit a loophole and escape Hell’s grasp earlier the contract’s deadline expires. An all-star formed makes this hilarious horror-comedy a bloody good time!  

If I Go Will They Miss Me                                

Director: Walter Thompson-Hernández / Country: USA; Running Time: 92 min

Twelve-year-old Lil Ant is simply a delicate artist, enamored pinch nan legends of Greek mythology and yearning to impressment his emotionally distant father, Big Ant. Writer-director Walter Thompson-Hernández sets this mesmerizing, lyrical image of masculinity and tenderness against nan backdrop of a engaged LAX formation path. 

Junkie                        

Director: William Means / Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min

Junkie tracks a haphazard 72 hours in nan life of Stevie, a loveable, charismatic, but meth-addicted mom, extraordinarily played by Rocky Shay, who escapes court-ordered rehab to embark connected an odyssey done nan underbelly of nan South to redeem her son’s love. 

The Plan                                 

Director: Jessica Barr / Country: USA; Running Time: 75 min

Inside a humble Los Angeles flat complete nan people of a azygous unbroken take, a group of disillusioned young adults prepares for a extremist enactment they judge will alteration nan world. But arsenic paranoia builds, 1 mobility lingers: is everyone truly committed? 

Return From Tomorrow                                   World Premiere

Director: Randy Moore / Country: USA; Running Time: 117 min

After nan nonaccomplishment of his father, a middle-aged dada has a situation of masculinity while connected family picnic successful Miami in this audacious and subversive follow-up to Randy Moore’s Escape from Tomorrow (2013). 

Ride aliases Die                             

Director: Josalynn Smith / Country: USA; Running Time: 85 min

Paula reconnects pinch her precocious schoolhouse crush and, arsenic nan sparks fly, is pulled into her chaotic orbit, embarking connected a doomed roadworthy trip. Award-winning head Josalynn Smith’s characteristic directorial debut explores nan attraction of fixing “broken” people, contempt nan costs to oneself.  

Sender                        

Director: Russell Goldman / Country: USA; Running Time: 94 min

Newly sober and attempting a caller start, a female (Britt Lower, Severance) originates receiving packages she ne'er ordered—each much unnervingly individual than nan last—in this stylish paranoid thriller astir addiction, recovery, and nan crushing expectations for normalcy successful a consumer-driven world. Rhea Seehorn, David Dastmalchian and Jamie Lee Curtis co-star. 

Sylvania                                 

Director: Kyle Smith / Country: USA; Running Time: 85 min

In Kyle Smith’s tender and funny Sylvania, Gracie and Stewart, connected nan brink of divorce, embark connected a family roadworthy travel to sojourn Gracie’s estranged begetter Frank who is successful the early stages of dementia. Once there, Gracie mines her begetter for stories of nan long-dead mother she ne'er really knew. 

Valentina                                

Director: Tatti Ribeiro / Country: USA; Running Time: 85 min

During a 48-hour play astatine the U.S. and Mexico’s busiest separator crossing, resolving an mean parking summons is derailed by family, friends, Valentina’s ain apathy, and nan maddening bureaucracy of the system. This unique documentary-comedy hybrid is executive produced by Jessica Alba and stars Keyla Monterroso Mejia (The Studio, Curb Your Enthusiasm).

COMPETITION DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

A Life Illuminated                               

Director: Tasha Van Zandt / Countries: USA/Australia; Running Time: 89 min

Join Dr. Edie Widder, trailblazing marine biologist, connected a descent 3,300 feet into nan ocean’s darkest depths. This stunningly beautiful technological movie features footage of nan elusive elephantine squid successful its earthy habitat, and nan earliest images of deep-sea bioluminescence. 

The Dads                                

Director: Luchina Fisher / Country: USA; Running Time: 72 min

Executive produced by NBA legend Dwyane Wade, Luchina Fisher’s inspiring documentary highlights a group of politically, generationally, and geographically divers fathers of transgender children arsenic they navigate an ever-changing socio-political scenery and grapple pinch an intolerable choice: enactment and conflict aliases fly nan country. 

First They Came for My College                                 

Director: Patrick Xavier Bresnan / Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min

Patrick Xavier Bresnan (Grand Jury Award: Documentary Short “The Rabbit Hunt,” FFF 2017; Naked Gardens, FFF 2023) examines nan accelerating conflict complete world state successful nan United States pinch nan right-wing, blimpish Republican takeover of New College of Florida, the state’s designated honors college, in Sarasota.   

If These Walls Could Rock                             

Directors: Tyler Measom, Craig A. Williams / Country: USA; Running Time: 93 min

What do Slash, Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow, Dave Grohl, Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons, Cyndi Lauper, and Morrissey, among different celebrated rockers person successful common? The Sunset Marquis Hotel successful West Hollywood! This is nan spot wherever iconic musicians person checked in, coked up, wrote music, collapsed nan rules, and bonded for decades. 

Never Get Busted!                              

Director: David Anthony Ngo / Countries: USA/Australia/UK; Running Time: 109 min

Barry Cooper is simply a charismatic and arguable erstwhile narcotics officer, infamous for his “Never Get Busted” DVD bid that taught supplier users really to hide their stash.  After exposing constabulary corruption successful a bid of online videos, he becomes a people leader connected nan run—his whereabouts unknown, even by the filmmakers today. 

Punkie                        

Director: Audrey Olson / Country: USA; Running Time: 72 min

Raw and real, head Audrey Olson’s friendly and unflinching image of nan first out Black SNL star Punkie Johnson gives audiences a chance to travel nan powerhouse comic connected nan roadworthy arsenic she preps for a stand-up typical and contends pinch mounting pressures successful her individual and master life.

Santacon                                

Director: Seth Porges / Country: USA; Running Time: 87 min

From the founders of Burning Man and the inspiration for Fight Club comes SantaCon! Sometimes referred to as Santarchy, Santapalooza, Santa Rampage, and nan Red Menace, it’s the arena that lures tens of thousands of drunken revelers to dress for illustration Santa Claus and invade countless cities astir nan world.  

School for Defectors                          

Director: Jeremy Workman / Country: USA; Running Time: 97 min

Celebrated documentarian Jeremy Workman (Secret Mall Apartment, FFF 2024; Lily Topples nan World, FFF 2021) takes his camera to Busan, South Korea, wherever he follows 20 students from nan tiny Jangdaehyun Boarding School—all North Korea defectors. 

Seized                        

Director: Sharon Liese / Country: USA; Running Time: 94 min

Marion, Kansas, erupts aft a constabulary ambush connected its section newspaper and nan decease of its 98-year-old owner, exposing abuses of power, First Amendment violations, and heavy municipality divisions successful an infuriating, entertaining documentary astir journalism, retribution, and small-town secrets. 

Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon                             

Directors: Khoa Ha, Victor Velle / Countries: USA/Vietnam; Running Time: 91 min

Legendary Vietnamese composer Y Vân is rediscovered by his granddaughter successful this communicative that spans 3 generations and 2 continents. Described arsenic “the Quincy Jones of Saigon,” he composed immoderate of Vietnam’s astir celebrated and treasured tunes. Part history lesson, portion travelogue, this vibrant movie is much than conscionable a bequest project. 

INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE

Chopin, Chopin!                                 

Director: Michał Kwieciński / Countries: Poland/France/Spain; Running Time: 113 min

Nominated for five Eagles Polish Film Awards, Michal Kwieciński’s period biographical play opens pinch nan energized world of 1835 Parisian precocious nine astatine a play-off arena featuring Fryderyk Chopin and his friend Franz Liszt, rising action for this aurally and visually rich | telling of Chopin’s life story.  

Kikuyu Land

Directors: Andrew H. Brown, Bea Wangondu / Countries: Kenya/USA; Running Time: 93 min

For Kenya’s Kikuyu people, a conflict to protect their land, culture, and early is inexorably intertwined pinch Western firm interests successful nan country’s beverage plantations and analyzable post-colonial African politics, each probed by Nairobi-based journalist and co-director Bea Wangondu and Andrew H. Brown (Kifaru, FFF 2019 and Path of nan Panther, FFF 2022). 

The Last Viking                                  

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen / Countries: Denmark/Sweden; Running Time: 116 min

Anker, precocious released from prison, entrusted stolen money to his autistic brother, Manfred (the one-and-only Mads Mikkelsen), who, having changed personalities and name, nary longer knows wherever nan money is. Cleverly balancing humor, darkness, and heartfelt moments that delve into nan scars of puerility and really they style america and our relationships for life, this outrageous achromatic drama is nan latest spot of mayhem from FFF award-winner Anders Thomas Jensen (Riders of Justice, FFF 2021). 

The Marching Band                            

Director: Emmanuel Courcol / Country: France; Running Time: 103 min

Conductor Thibaut, needing a bony marrow transplant, discovers he is adopted and has a antecedently chartless brother, Jimmy. Through their emotion of music, nan brothers flooded feelings of disbelief, resentment, and privilege to travel to position pinch their past and present. With delicate joke and heartfelt moments, this bittersweet class-comedy entertains while provoking thought astir our expertise to unrecorded together and create meaningful connections. Nominated for 7 César Awards (“French Oscars”). 

MIDNIGHT FEATURES

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt                           

Director: Tom Stern / Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min

Never sacred, ever profane, this chaotic doc hurls you into Butthole Surfers’ chaotic psych-punk circus—puppets, drugs, fire, and all—as Richard Linklater calls their unrecorded shows “a changing point successful your life,” and Gibby’s unhinged mayhem someway lands connected thing tender, transformative, and unforgettable. 

Frogman Returns                               

Director: Anthony Cousins / Country: USA; Running Time: 75 min

Frogman . . . RETURNS!!! Plunging backmost into cryptid fable and camcorder paranoia, a disgraced filmmaker hunts impervious of nan viral amphibious monster, spiraling into flooded woods and conspiracy-soaked lore. Blending found-footage chaos pinch applicable animal effects and a streak of absurdist humor, escalating the mythology while skewering our obsession pinch net fame and manufactured myth. 

Hokum                        

Director: Damian McCarthy / Countries: Ireland/USA; Running Time: 101 min

When novelist Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott, Severance) retreats to a distant inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting nan honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance unit him to face acheronian corners of his past. From Damian McCarthy, head of Oddity. 

Mermaid                                 

Director: Tyler Cornack / Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min

Tyler Cornack’s Mermaid plunges into swamp-soaked surrealism erstwhile a financially strapped and supplier addicted dockworker (Johnny Pemberton, Fallout) believes a wounded mermaid hides successful nan drainage canal down his apartment. Equal parts animal characteristic and Florida noir, Mermaid is sticky, sunburned, and defiantly strange. 

NARRATIVE SHORTS

Afufu                          

Director: Ellie Foumbi / Country: USA; Running Time: 18 min

All astatine Once                              

Director: Maggie Brill / Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min

All nan Real Boys                                

Director: Ohad Ira Amram / Country: USA; Running Time: 11 min

American Cheese                               

Director: Kate Thulin / Country: USA; Running Time: 10 min

Are You Fucking Kidding Me?!                                   

Director: Zen Pace / Country: USA; Running Time: 12 min

Betty St. Clair                         

Directors: Syra McCarthy, Kyle Casey Chu / Country: USA; Running Time: 12 min

Cake                           

Director: Caro Ribeiro / Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min

Candy Bar                              

Director: Nash Edgerton / Country: Australia; Running Time: 6 min

The Catcher                            

Director: Luka Galle / Country: Belgium; Running Time: 30 min

CHÄIR                        

Director: Chris McInroy / Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min

The Daughter                          

Director: Mary Ann Anane / Country: USA; Running Time: 7 min

Dear Shop Girl                        

Director: Nira Burstein / Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min

DISC                           

Director: Blake Winston Rice / Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Doctor Death Grip                              

Director: Amber Schaefer / Country: USA; Running Time: 21 min

Esther                         

Director: Joey Hunt / Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

Fantasma                               

Director: Ulbrecht Tomas / Country: USA; Running Time: 11 min

Fruithead                                

Director: Mike Diva / Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

Gloria                         

Director: Kim Blanck / Country: USA; Running Time: 10 min

Grampa                                  

Director: Justice Smith / Country: USA; Running Time: 19 min

House Cat                               

Director: Kyle Spleiss / Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

I Gaze astatine nan Sky                                

Director: Alexandra Strunin / Country: Poland; Running Time: 24 min

I Walked Through nan Wall                             

Director: Pablo Larcuen / Countries: USA/Spain; Running Time: 8 min

Idyll                            

Director: Austin Cauldwell / Country: USA; Running Time: 18 min

Imago                         

Director: Ariel Zengotita / Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

In Lieu of Flowers                               

Director: Stacey Torkelson / Country: USA; Running Time: 18 min

Iron Lake                                

Director: Grant Swanson / Country: USA; Running Time: 20 min

It Means Hope                        

Director: Shadi Karamroudi / Country: Iran; Running Time: 15 min

It’s Easy to Forget (Es Fácil Olvidar)                          

Director: Yamile Abuid / Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

Jit                               

Director: Samuel Correa / Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min

The Last Day of Byron Bray                           

Director: Michael Borrelli / Country: USA; Running Time: 20 min

The Last Ride                         

Directors: Vijesh Rajan, Yashoda Parthasarthy / Country: India; Running Time: 24 min

Man successful Motel                           

Director: Faryl Amadeus / Country: USA; Running Time: 12 min

Neuman                                  

Director: Timothy Jacob Elledge / Country: USA; Running Time: 16 min

Norheimsund                          

Director: Ana A. Alpizar / Countries: Cuba/USA; Running Time: 12 min

Nut Milk successful May                                   

Director: Brooke Trantor / Country: USA; Running Time: 17 min

Peace Corps                           

Director: Jessica Li / Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

Photo Play XX                        

Director: Zolomon Zelko / Country: USA; Running Time: 16 min

Scissors                                 

Director: Hannah Alline / Country: USA; Running Time: 12 min

Scout’s Honor                        

Director: Isabel Pask / Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too Much                               

Director: Eric Jackowtz / Country: USA; Running Time: 17 min

September, All Over.                           

Director: Kali Kahn / Country: USA; Running Time: 21 min

Skin connected Skin                           

Director: Simon Schneckenburger / Country: Germany; Running Time: 30 min

Somewhere to Be                               

Director: Christy Chan / Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

The Spectacle                         

Director: Bálint Kenyeres / Countries: Hungary/France; Running Time: 17 min

Squall Mouth                          

Director: Eva Chaitman / Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Stairs                          

Director: Riley Donigan / Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Study Hall                               

Director: Sterling Hampton IV / Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

TEOTWAWKI                          

Director: Cristin Stephens / Country: USA; Running Time: 7 min

This Blows                             

Director: Talia Smith / Countries: USA/South Africa; Running Time: 13 min

To-Go                         

Director: Bryan Poyser / Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min

Tub                             

Director: Kathreen Khavari / Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Ultra Juice                              

Director: Carl Conway Maguire / Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min

Vultures                                  

Director: Dian Weys / Countries: South Africa/France; Running Time: 15 min

Wall Udder                              

Director: Alexandra Hayden / Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

Xolo                            

Director: Matthew Serrano / Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers                       

Director: Yoo Lee

Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

The Baddest Speechwriter of All                                

Directors: Ben Proudfoot, Stephen Curry

Country: USA; Running Time: 29 min

The Baker’s Hotline                            

Directors: Dave Schuman, Emily Schuman

Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

Being Bublé                            

Director: Dan Perlman

Country: USA; Running Time: 21 min

The Book of George                           

Director: Danny Schmidt

Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min

Chasing nan Passage of Time                         

Directors: Dennis Scholl, Ed Talabera

Country: USA; Running Time: 7 min

The Chimney Sweeper                       

Director: Jack Raese

Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

Correspondence                                 

Director: Paul Oh

Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min

Drag Me to Church                             

Director: Isabella Sullivan

Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min

Free Fish                                

Directors: Bisan Owda, Carolina Pereira

Countries: Palestine/Portugal; Running Time: 22 min

Hollywood’s Mermaid: The Esther Williams Story                              

Director: Brian Gersten

Country: USA; Running Time: 20 min

If You Really Love Me, Outlive Me                              

Directors: Alejandro Ruax, Saskia d’Altena

Country: USA; Running Time: 20 min

In God’s Hands                                   

Director: Modar Kajo

Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Oh Whale                                

Director: Winslow Crane-Murdoch

Country: USA; Running Time: 26 min

One Last Order                                   

Directors: Lauren DeFilippo, Sam Soko

Country: USA; Running Time: 20 min

Panther Pat                            

Director: Ashley Brandon

Country: USA; Running Time: 12 min

Same Water                            

Director: Martine Granby

Country: USA; Running Time: 21 min

Screw Lucy                            

Director: Mary Pilon

Country: USA; Running Time: 19 min

Swim Sistas                            

Director: Catherine Joy White

Country: UK; Running Time: 11 min

Trapped                                  

Directors: Joe Purtell, Mads Engel

Country: USA; Running Time: 11 min

Welcome                                

Director: Justin Whittingham

Country: USA; Running Time: 22 min

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

Advice for Immigrants #1                               

Director: Saif Alsaegh

Country: USA; Running Time: 1 min

Allegory of nan Cave                           

Directors: Huang Weipeng, Wang Yajing

Country: China; Running Time: 8 min

As Told by a Corpse                           

Director: Yace Sula

Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min

The Call                                  

Director: Kelly Sears

Country: USA; Running Time: 7 min

Dance Film                             

Director: Kelly Gallagher

Country: USA; Running Time: 1 min

Everything that Fell from nan Mourning Dove’s Nest arsenic She Built It                           

Director: Noah Engel

Country: USA; Running Time: 1 min

explant/implant                                   

Director: Josh Weissbach

Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min

My Grandma Still Cleans My Uncle’s Room (Mi Mamita Todavía Mantiene el Cuarto de Mi Tío)        

Director: Alex Guerra

Countries: USA/Guatemala; Running Time: 5 min

The Stars Watch from Long Ago                                

Director: Stacey Steers

Country: USA; Running Time: 24 min

The Story of nan Cricket Queen                                  

Director: Natalie Peracchio

Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min

Tourniquet                              

Director: Marceline Chevako

Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min

Tuktuit: Caribou                                 

Director: Lindsay Aksarniq McIntyre

Countries: Canada/USA; Running Time: 15 min

Wetland Impulse                                 

Director: Jimmy Schaus

Country: USA; Running Time: 2 min

ANIMATED SHORTS

1981                            

Directors: Carolyn London, Andy London

Country: USA; Running Time: 8 min

Ashen Sun                              

Director: Camille Monnier

Countries: France/Belgium; Running Time: 13 min

Beetle Summer                                   

Directors: Jian Yuan, Anyu Chen

Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min

Busy Bodies                           

Director: Kate Renshaw-Lewis

Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min

Crab Diane                             

Director: Ryan McCown

Country: USA; Running Time: 18 min

Dreams                                   

Director: Eddie Mauldin

Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min

Girls Night Out                       

Director: Ashley Sengstaken

Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min

Hell                             

Director: Parker Croft

Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min

Horde                         

Director: Janina Księska

Country: Poland; Running Time: 7 min

Juicy and Sweet                                 

Director: Sasha Uijeong Shin

Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min

Merrimundi                             

Director: Niles Atallah

Countries: Chile/France; Running Time: 21 min

Mother’s Child                        

Director: Naomi Noir

Countries: Netherlands/France; Running Time: 9 min

Once successful a Body                                   

Director: María Cristina Pérez González

Countries: Colombia, USA; Running Time: 11 min

Paper Trail                              

Director: Don Hertzfeldt

Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Perfect City: The Mushroom                           

Director: Shengwei Zhou

Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min

Praying Mantis                       

Director: Joe Hsieh

Countries: Taiwan/Hong Kong; Running Time: 18 min

Sorrow Doesn’t Sleep astatine Night                       

Directors: Josefina Montino, Martín André

Country: Chile; Running Time: 9 min

Trading Cards                        

Director: Radheya Jang

Countries: Australia/UK; Running Time: 15 min

Tuna Tartare                           

Director: Lena Greene

Countries: USA/France; Running Time: 11 min

Um                              

Director: Nieto

Country: France; Running Time: 8 min

Venezia Diorama                                

Director: Nicolas Piret

Countries: Belgium/France; Running Time: 6 min

Winter successful March                                  

Director: Natalia Mirzoyan

Countries: Estonia/Armenia/France/Belgium; Running Time: 16 min

Yearn                          

Director: Ben Smith Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min

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