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
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
Behind Cercle Odyssey | Chapter Two: Synchronicity – Mickaël Fidjili
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
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
Light Bunny – Valerian Zamel
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 – 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 McGregor
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
Selah – Brett Michael Innes
Savage Season – Nardeep Khurmi
Say Wuff! – Fabian Podeszwa
Sense of Emergency – Madeline Down
Shadows in Sunlight – Ruhi Hamid
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
SNIPPED – Alexander Saul
Snow Bear – Aaron Blaise
Soap&Skin - Girl Loves Me – Ioan Gavriel, Anja Franziska Plaschg
Something Real – Tamara Shogaolu
Sienna And The Sit – Scottie Thompson
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
Milk – Naomi Waring
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
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 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
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