Announcing the 2025 HollyShorts Official Selections
HollyShorts is thrilled to announce the official selections of the 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival. This year, we’ve accepted 427 films from around to world to join us in Hollywood this August.
1:10
Sinan Taner
11:11
Mahnoor Euceph
***** (five stars)
Todd Wiseman Jr
12 Hours
Kelly Stanphill
22 + 1
Pippa Bennett-Warner
A Bear in the Woods
Andrew Laurich
A Bear Remembers
Zhang + Knight
A Friend of Dorothy
Lee Knight
A Good Death
Kaz PS
A Man Apart
Nate Myers
A NAME THAT IS NOT MINE
Dario Piana
A son and a father
Andrés Ramírez Pulido
A West Side Story Story
Aditya Joshi
ACROSS THE WATERS
Viv Li
Acts of Kindness
Ben Strebel
ADO
Sam Henderson
ADONXS - Kiss Kiss Goodbye
Jiří Horenský
African Family Dinner
Ibrahim Mursal
After The Sun
Rayane Mcirdi
Aicha
Sanaa El Alaoui
all the love i could handle
Ruby Rose Collins
All The World
Marc Jozefowicz
Almost Certainly False
Cansu Baydar
Always, Forever and Ever
Fiona Lu
AMAL | HOPE
Eros Zhao
AMARELA
André Hayato Saito
An Ongoing List of Things Found in the Library Book Drop, Usually Being Used as Bookmarks
Kayla Abuda Galang
Are You Fucking Kidding Me?!
Zen Pace
Armed Only With A Camera; The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Brent Renaud, Craig Renaud
Asaf Sagiv - Lodz I (Official Music Video)
Manuel Inacker
AstroVan
Matt Heder
ATTAGIRL!
Klimovski
BABKA
Serena Dykman
Baby Tooth
Olivia Accardo
Beatrix is Invisible
Alex Farias
Behavior Mod
Eddy Gudakov
Behind Cercle Odyssey | Chapter Two: Synchronicity
Mickaël Fidjli
Being Dead Should Be Easy
Claire Harris Matson, Drew Brandon Jones
Belinda
Isaac Kasende
Beneath The Wilt
Neil Dua
Berta
Lucía Forner Segarra
Best Before
Lisa Service
Better Life
Jessica Liu
Bidet
James Brylowski
Big Man
Aneil Karia
Bittersweet
Myrakel Baker
Black Man, Black Man
Frank Abney
Black Scarf
Alireza Shah Hosseini
Bloody Mess
Megan Wennberg
Blue Violet
Josie Charles
Bootie's
Milana Vayntrub
Bound/«Переплетені»
Masha Ellsworth
BOYFIGHTER
Julia Weisberg Cortés
Breadwinner
Camila Grimaldi
Brick By Brick
Chris Boyd, Nate Riedel
Brothers
Ross Syner
Buffalo Spirit
Ivy MacDonald, Daniel Glick
Buick
Michael Godere
BULLDOZER
Andrew Leeds
Burns and Song
Tendayi Nyeke
Bury Your Gays
Charlotte Serena Cooper
BUSTED!
Emily Everhard
C'Mon Landsloth
Jessica Erin Martin
Calf
Jamie O'Rourke
CAMERAMAN
Arsalan Motavali
CANDY BAR
Nash Edgerton
CARE
Stef O'Driscoll
CATTYWAMPUS
Jono Chanin
CHANNEL BIBI
Rajan Gill
Channelvue
Brandon Tauszik
CHASERS
Erin Brown Thomas
Chasing the High
Tara Macken
Chasing the Party
Jessie Komitor
Cherry-Colored Funk
Chelsie Pennello
Chokin'
Kai Straw
Clay Bird
Kiran Bhakta Joshi
Clout
Jordan Murphy Doidge
Coconut Girl
Ayesha Agarwal
Cocoon
Sujin Jung
COMET ORPHAN
Hyejin “Grace” Park
COURAGE
Eric Michael Hernandez
Crazy For You
Greta Díaz Moreau
Crust
Jens Kevin Georg
CURA SANA
Lucía G. Romero
Daisy
Niki Koss
Dancing in Tomorrowland
Jakob Roston
Day 21
Dashiell Meier
Deep Dish Dimples
Manuel Villarreal
DEFORMED
Augusto Suárez
Descent
Liam Fitzgibbon
Earth Defender
Sil van der Woerd, Jorik Dozy, Kynan Tegar
Eeohtoh
Matthew Barber, Nathaniel Barber
elle/elle
Kelley Kalí
Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting
Alexander Thompson
Emergency Contact
Riley Madincea
Emergency Plan
Anna Pakman
En Memoria
Roberto Fatal
Even Witches Have Bad Luck Sometimes
The Ambrogio Twins
Everhand
Shane Hillier
Everyone Does It
Craig Ainsley
EXODUS
Nimco Sheikhaden
FAME AND OTHER FOUR LETTER WORDS
Miranda Kahn
Familiar Stranger
Ace Mahbaz
family dinner
Huayi Yu
Family Sunday
Gerardo Del Razo
Fender Bender
Kurt Andrew Schneider
Find the boy
Paulin·e Goasmat
Fire At Will
Morgan Gruer
Flavor of the Month
Nathan Xia
Foster the People - Lost in Space
Rupert Höller
Framework Presents Michael Bibi on Hollywood Boulevard
Framework
Freak Job
Langan Kingsley
Freeman Vines
André Robert Lee, Tim Kirkman
FREYR
David Telles
Garden Wall
Will Rahilly
Gardening
Sarah Beeby
GEMINI
Naomi Christie
Genealogy of Violence
Mohamed Bourouissa
GHAZI
Shariful Taher
Give and Take
Leah Henoch
Gloria
Kim Blanck
Going
Rupert Ratcliffe
Going Mental
Will Bonnell
Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites
Chheangkea
Grandma's Four Color Cards (Bài tứ sắc của Ngoại)
Sally Tran
GRATUITY
Kevin Boston
GREEN
Chris Johnson
Grief Retreat
Jeremie Cander
Guardian Asshole
The Neese Twins
GUN
Lado Kvataniya
HAINT
Jahmil Eady
Halfway Haunted
Sam Rudykoff
Hand
Jing Wang
HAPPY MART
Bill Posley
Harvester
Charlie Schwan
Hasaan Hates Portland
Mischa Webley
Hat Trick
Tess Lafia, Noah Deats
Hatchlings
Jahmil Eady
Heirlooms
Dan Abramovici
Help Me Tom
Jiahang Yang
Henrietta Finds a Nest
Hannah McNally
Her Last Day
Jiacheng Wang
Here Comes Santa Claus
Ryan McIlraith, Sean McIlraith
Hermano Hermana
Rodrigo Cuartas, Jonathan Cuartas, Michael Cuartas
Hero
Andrew Cutcliffe
Hiawatha
Rachel B. Joyce
Highway to the Moon
Letitia Wright
Hippopotami
JJ Lin
Hold Me Close
Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Weaver
Holy Smokes
Gabby Fiszman, Isabella Ares
HONEY BARE
Jasmine J. Johnson
Hoops, Hopes & Dreams
Glenn Kaino
Houston, We Have a Crush
Omer Ben-Shachar
How I Learned to Die
Manya Glassman
HUMBE - KINTSUGI
Emi Rodríguez
HUMBE, Reik - MALBEC
Emi Rodríguez
Hurikán
Jan Saska
Hypersensitive (Hypersensible)
Martine Frossard
Hypothetically, the End
Lily Drummond
I Hate Helen
Martha McGuirk
I WANT MY MOMMY
Jacob Samuels
I Want To Feel Fun
Jessica Sanders
ID
Adam Starks
If I could fly
Alexander Kühn
If You Believe In Me
Brandon Bloom
Imprint
Duncan Major
In Foreign
Didi Beck
In Thousand Petals
Louise Bongartz
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
Amanda Strong
Interloper
Kerry O'Neill
Into The Bloo
Austin Nunes
Intruder
Camille Casmier
It's Not You... IT'S THE ALIENS!
Taylor Anthony Miller
It's On Like A Pot Of Neckbones
Joey Garfield
IT'S OUR BALL
David Morrison
Jake Goes on a Date
Robert Harold
James
Andrés Rodríguez
James Hyde - The Very Thought of You
Benjamin Uttley
JOHNNY
Kwame Augustine, Stephanie Boateng
Just Between Us
Zac Hug
Just Imagine
Karolis Kveselis
Keeper
Hannah Rafkin
Key of Genius
Daniel Persitz
Killing Jar
Etzu Shaw
Kisses and Bullets
Faranak Sahafian
KOPALA
Hugh Francis Anderson, Vetle Sevild
L'avance
Djiby Kebe
L'équipe
Lilian T. Mehrel
Lamento
Diego Contreras
Largo
Salvatore Scarpa, Max Burgoyne-Moore
Leap of Faith
Jen Stafford
Learning How To Drive
Tyler Cunningham
Legacy Makers: Darren Prince
Rudy Mawer
LEGEND OF FRY-ROTI: RISE OF THE DOUGH
Sabrina Saleha
Legends
Suhashini Krishnan
Linda, Linda!
Kiyan Agadjani
Lineage
Michelle West
LITTLE BIRD
Oanh-Nhi Nguyen
LITTLE MONSTERS
Pablo Léridon
Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles
Emily Sheskin
Lo Que Desaparece
Nono Ayuso, Rodrigo Inada
Long Pork
Iris Dukatt
Long's Long Lost & Mini Mart
Julian Doan
LOSS
Sivan Levy Zakin
Lost Marble
Laura Quinn Geyer
Love Immortal
Ömer Sami
LOVE MACHINE
Jon Clark
Love, from Ellie
Chantelle James
Lovin' Her
day
LUX CARNE
Gabriel Grosclaude
Luz Diabla
Gervasio Canda, Paula Boffo, Patricio Plaza
Magical Meat
Èric Boadella
Main Man
John de Menil
Majoring in Mirage - millkzy
Charlie Walker
MAMA MAMA
Kerry Frances
MANGO
Joan Iyiola
Marginalia
Alex Gentemann
Mashhad
Sarah Solemani
Max Distance
Marissa Goldman
May I Put You On Hold?
Ash Blodgett
Medusa
Sarah Meyohas
Meevil the Weevil: Breakfast of Champions
Kyle Arneson
Memory
Riyadh Haque
Mercenaire
Pier-Philippe Chevigny
Milk Baby
Kristen Gerweck Diaz
Missing Rhythms
Regina Hoyles
Moi aussi
Judith Godrèche
Money Talks
Tony Mucci
Montsouris
Guil Sela
More Than Dust
Julia Weisberg Cortés
Mother's Child
Naomi Noir
MOVING
Nat Rovit
Munchies
Brittany Alexia Young
Murphy's Ranch
John Michael Riva Jr.
Mushroom Dad
Michael Yuchen Lei
My Brother, My Brother
Abdelrahman Dnewar, Saad Dnewar
My Dead Mom
Chandler Levack, Wendy Litner
My Father's Wedding
Jay McGrego
My Favorite Murderer
Tina Carbone
Negro League Nights
Kyle Sykes
Neo-Dome
Bonnie Discepolo
Nervous Energy
Eve Liu
Neuro
Wes Ellis
No Good Calls Come in the Middle of the Night
Angela Cohen
Obsession
Devon Kane
OLIVE
Tom Koch
On The Way
Samir Karahoda
One Day This Kid
Alexander Farah
One in Fifty
Haley Watson
ONE LAST ROUND
Kor Adana
One Of Them
Mostafa Vaziri
One Punch
Huse Monfaradi
Out There
Alexis Smith
Ovary-Acting
Ida Melum
PANCHO & STOLTZ
Dylan Santa Cruz
Pas Vraiment Ordinaire (Not Really Ordinary)
Gil Henry
Passarinho
Natalia García Agraz
Pasta Negra
Jorge Thielen Armand
PATIENCE
Valentin Guiod
Pedigree
Kai Wen Hu
Piedi Nudi
Vincent Peter Mocco
Piggy at the Pool Party
Izzy Shill
Plastic Surgery
Guy Trevellyan
Pocket Change
Tanner Mobley, Heston Roewe
PORELESS
Harris Doran
Premiere
Omer Ben David
Pressure - Keznamdi
Nathanael Amadi
Pick One
Julian De Zotti
Psychopomp
Kit Harington
Public Freakout
Julia Bales
PUNTER
Jason Adam Maselle
Quince Candles
Deane Gonzalez
Ragamuffin
Kaitlyn Mikayla
Rage
Fran Moreno Blanco, Santi Pujol Amat
Rainbow Girls
Nana Duffuor
Rajas & the Wolf Girl
Nidhi Reddy
Randy As Himself
Margaret Miller
RĀZ (THE SECRET)
Maryam L'ange
Recesses
Dylan Trupiano
Rent Boy
Trey Chapman
Retirement Plan
John Kelly
Rhoda
Alex Lawther
RISE
Jessica J. Rowlands
Road Kill
Ryan Farhoudi
Rock Paper Scissors
Franz Böhm
Rocket Fuel
Jordon Scott Kennedy
Same.
Dezi Gallegos
Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts
Rein Maychaelson
SAUNA DAY
Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash
Savage Season
Nardeep Khurmi
Say Wuff!
Fabian Podeszwa
Sense of Emergency
Madeline Down
Shadows in Sunlight
Ruhi Hamid
SHE DEVIL
Allie Perison
SHED
Mila Vilaplana
Sheep
Hadi Babaeifar
SHITHEAD
Riley Donigan
Side by Side
Gabriela Mo
Silver Needle
J Wang
Skin
Urvashi Pathania
Skin Deep
Hector Bell
SKYDXDDY- MEDUSA
Justin Marmorstein
Smudge Episode 2 - The Unfiniverse Pt. 1
Brenna Powers
SNIPPED
Alexander Saul
Snow Bear
Aaron Blaise
Soap&Skin - Girl Loves Me
Ioan Gavriel, Anja Franziska Plaschg
Something Real
Tamara Shogaolu
Sopo
Nissi Ogulu
SOUP
Sharon Chetrit
Spit It Out
RAY SISTERS
Spotlight: Where Shadows Dance
Framework
Sprucilla and The Queen of Trees
Chris DiFiore
Steak Dinner
Nathan Mark Ginter
Stella
Sofia Sondervan
Stero
Tevin Kimathi, Millan Tarus
Stomach Bug
Matty Crawford
Storage
Brittney Badduke
Strangers On A Beach
Michael Schwartz
Style: A Seattle Basketball Story
Bryan Tucker
Sunday Sauce
Matt Campanella
Sundown
Rafael Agustin
Supper
Joshua Ryan Dietz
SUSANA
Gerardo Coello, Amandine Thomas
SWEETBRIAR
Danny Rivera
Synthesize Me
Bear Damen
Tacocunr
Erin Brown Thomas
Taga
Jill Sachs
Tango
Amadou Diallo
Teen Mary
Ali Rosenthal
Terms & Conditions
Mar Sudac
Tether
Meredith Berg
Thanks For Having Me
Wylie Anderson
The "Eden" Project
Chau Man-kit
The 12 Inch Pianist
Lucas Ansel
The all-knowing lie detector
Christopher Smith, Jack De Sena
The Beguiling
ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby
The Big Everything
Salvador Paskowitz
The Bull
Victor Nauwynck
The Ebony Canal: The Story of Black Infant Health
Emmai Alaquiva
The Errand
Hayley Marie Norman
The Flock of Forgotten Faces
A.B. Osborne, Emily McBrayer Hogue
The Following is a Paid Advertisement
Ryan Kittleman
The Funkee Sketch Show
Karla Espino
The Girl
Mandy Kowalski
The Golem
Sierra Nutkevitch
The Incredible Sensational Fiancée of Sèyí Àjàyí
Abbesi Akhamie
The Kid in You – Seize every moment.
Abel J. Santa
The Last Dance
Hayden Mclean
The Last Dumpling
Jadey Duffield
The Life We Have
Sam Price-Waldman
The Littles
Andrew Duplessie
The Magician
Bogdan Muresanu
The Most Perfect Perfect Person
Paul Trillo
The Most Powerful Human On Earth
Andrew Richardson
The Painting & The Statue
Freddie Fox
THE PEARL COMB
Ali Cook
The Pic
Frances Chewning
The Picnic
Cory DeMeyers
The Quinta's Ghost
James A. Castillo
The Rise And Fall Of Zara Zilverstein
Brian Kazez
The Second Time Around
Jack Howard
THE SENTRY
Jake Wachtel
The Shyness of Trees
Bingqing Shu, Maud Le Bras, Jiaxin Huang, Simin He, Lina Han, Loïck Du Plessis D’Argentré, Sofiia Chuikovska
The Singers
Sam Davis
THE SNIP
Alain Delannoy
THE STAND
Oanh-Nhi Nguyen
The Synthetic Age
Dimitris Armenakis
The Things We Carry
Thibaud Goarin
The Truck
Elizabeth Rao
THE TRUNK
Craig Blair
The Vote
Sylvia Ray
The Whistle
Greg Franklin
There Will Come Soft Rains
Elham Ehsas
This Land
Mike Bradley
Threadbeat Dad
Crystal Jin Kim
Tiger
Loren Waters
TOO GOOD
Meron Alon
Topanga Canyon
Nikki Lorenzo, Lauren Withrow
TRACERS
Sof Puchley
Transferable
Jacob Gardner, David Hubert
Trapped
Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz
Tuna Tartare
Lena Greene
Turtle / Tortoise
Robbie Snow
Tuu Tuu Til
Veronica Solomon
Two Black Boys in Paradise
Baz Sells
Two Ships
McKinley Benson
ULTRA MIAMI 2023 - VICE CITY (Official Aftermovie)
Final Kid
Uncle Johnny
Margaux Susi
Undeletable
Benjamin Blaine, Christopher Blaine
Under the Ice
Michel Nicola Benjamin Kessler, Oesch David
Under the Infinite
Warren Fu
Unholy
Daisy Friedman
Ver. Fine Day
Nik Kacevski
Very Prosperous Men
Josiah Walker
VICTORY
Meji Alabi
Video Barn
Bianca Poletti
Voices from the abyss
Irving Serrano, Victor Rejón
Wait
Evan Hara
Wait, Your Car?
Reece Feldman
Wanna Die Wanna Kill
Jaehee Jeong
Wannabe
Kat Cattani
WASSUPKAYLEE
Pepi Ginsberg
We are Kings
Frank Sun
We are the Descendants (in 79 languages)
Steven Chesne, Nayip Ramos
We Do Our Best
Hannah Rose Ammon
We Meet Again
Matthew Lucas
We Should Eat
Shaina Feinberg
We'll Meet Again
Manuel Aron Gonzalez
We're Not Done Yet
Joseph Longo, Sofia Camargo
WELCOME TO MY ROOTS - The Jeff Hamilton Story
David Serero
What If They Bomb Here Tonight ?
Samir Syriani
What if We Could Stay
Stephen Steelman
What The River Knows
Diego Riley, Will Buckley
WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH BIRDS?
Taylor Bakken
When The Tide Comes
Fêt-Nat Bailly
Where Insects Hide at Night
Lucas Acher
Whitch
Hoku Uchiyama
Who Calls
J.A Villalobos
WHOLE
Jessica Barr, Kiah Stern
Whose Woods Are These
Kate Nartker
Window Cleaners
Sylvie Weber
Woke
Xian Elder
Wormwood
Matthieu Dupille, Binlin Xie, Alexander Vanderplank, Ninon Quemener, Philémon Martin, Chenhe Liu
Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time
James P Gannon, Matt Ferrin
Wu-Tang Clan X Mathematics - Mandingo (Official Music Video)
Jason Zada
Wu-Tang Clan X Mathematics - Warriors Two, Cooley High (Official Music Video)
Danny Hastings
Yoko Poco Ma Yoko - How to Translate a Miracle
Andrea Vinciguerra
You Are Here
Spencer Lackey