HollyShorts 2026: The Official Selections Are Here
The 22nd Annual HollyShorts Film Festival returns August 13–23, 2026 at the TCL Chinese Theatres and Ovation Hollywood with one of the largest programs in its history — more than 400 films selected from thousands of submissions worldwide. This year's Oscar®-qualifying lineup includes Renée Zellweger's directorial debut They, Martin Freeman in Little Bug, Michael Keaton directing and starring in Sweetwater, Michael Caine voicing Bobby, and projects executive produced by Zoe Saldaña, Margot Robbie, Jordan Peele, Barry Keoghan, Idris and Sabrina Elba, Serena Williams, and Stephen Curry — alongside music videos from Gorillaz and Jack White, two new film funds totaling $40,000 in prizes, and hundreds of discoveries from around the globe. The full official selections:
#StopAsianKate — Marieve Herington
...Oh — Justin Geldzahler
(0,∞) — Mar Sudac
1020 — Julie Goldstone
300 Feet Tall — Michelle Vezilj
32B — Mohamed Taher
45 Years Left — Ahamed Weinberg
4Girls — Charm La'Donna
8:38 — Imole Ladipo
A Crime Across Four Landscapes — Aidan Weaver
A Goldfish's Memory — Adrien Lagier, Roman Bellity
A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers — Yoo Lee
A Mother's Love — Harald Schwarzenbacher
A New Inferno — Nita Blum, Jonathan Pickett
A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching — Adam Elliott
A Scent — Johnny Russell
A Short Documentary About a Giant Pencil — Daniel Straub
A Soil a Culture a River a People — Viv Li
Aaron and His Dad Try to Find Closure & Lucy Celebrates Andie's Birthday at Universal CityWalk Hollywood — Brad Roelandt
Acid City — Jack Wedge, Will Freudenheim
Ackee and Saltfish — Jasmin Nunes
Addicted to It — Nigel Tierney, Federico Heller
Admin — Shannon Sullivan
Agnès — Nora Arnezeder
Alberta and the Possum — Federica Arevalo
Am I a Bad Person? — Alanna Longo
America — Laura New
Ambush | Kameen — Yassmina Karajah
Anthrax – The Edge of Perfection (Official Music Video) — Joel Harlow
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town — Daniel Kreizberg
Apart — Pola Maneli
Archbishop Harold Holmes — Gilbert Trejo
Are We Still Married? — Kit Steinkellner
Artichoke — Amir Moini
Assembly Required — Andy Volk
"Attention Is a Drug" Documentary — Sean Kantrowitz
Aurora — Angad Aulakh
B for Boys — Gerard Vidal Barrena
Baby Talk — Michael León
Back to the Dark Ages — Anna Pakman
Baggage — Jeni Emery, Ramsay Palmer
Banshee — Peter Vass
Bea — Ziv Mamon
Beautiful Girl — Milky Tran
Before Anything Happens — Samantha Joia
Béla Tarr — Jakob Ladányi Jancsó
Benny's Second Birthday — R.J. Glass
Beshert — Lewis Rose
Betty St. Clair — Syra McCarthy, Kyle Casey Chu
Beware Cckblocking Ghosts* — Alys Murray
Beyond the Mind — Lanya Nooralddin
Big Nose — Sophia Conger
Birds of Paradise — Marissa Velez
Birth Is for Pssies* — Hannah Shealy, Celine Sutter
Black Cab — James Arden
Bleeder — Jeremy Max
Bleeding Edge — Daeyoung Kim
Blondi — Jack Salvadori
Blooky: The Book Who Wanted to Be Read — Pablo Diaz De Leon Hicks
Bloom — Audrey Rosenberg
Bobby — Isabella Webber
Body Song — Georgia Hudson
Boys of Summer — Annabel Edwards, Mito Habe-Evans
Braving the Night — Joshua Adam Kushner, Luisa Carranza
Bread Will Walk — Alex Boya
Breezeblock — Thomas Bernon, Julien Gamarde
Bruvvas — Katie McGuinness
Bundle — Carlo Milillo
But I'm Your Brother — Noah Morse
Butt-Face — Guillermo de Oliveira
Call It All Love — David Mazouz
Call Me Crazy — Olivia Ormond
Callback — Matthew Puccini
Camp Oleander — Alyssa Aldaz
Can I Put You on Hold — James Cutler
Captives — Noémie Polycarpe, Mélodi Baskal, Rose Frappa-Denis, Hugo Barbier, Katia Doze, Lisa Giacobbi, Lisa Sabat
Carpenter Brut – The Misfits / The Rebels — Jean Delaunay
Cecilia Is Only Eight Years Old — Soojeong Son
Celeste in the Summer — Hobby Holmes
Certain Thomas — Henry K. Hwang
"CGI" by the Full Circle Boys (Official Music Video) — Keone Richard Madrid
Chi Mangia Solo — Francesco Aram Zenati
ChikaBOOM! — C. Craig Patterson
Child of the Rouge — Taz F. Stark
Chocolate — Yarden Lior
Choke — Joelle Marie Velez, Kemi Mayomi, Cee Pham
Chop Cheese — Sophia Meloni
Christmas Ambulance — Nina Celine Gantz
Christmas Angels — Remington Hoffman, Ida Hoffman
Clucky's — Jaden Esse
Concrete Kids — Saulius Baradinskas
Contrast Therapy — Ben Gageler
Copy, Save — Alyssa Loh
Cowgirl — Coral Worley
Cracked — Jessica Rizk
Crashcat — Brian Ellis, Daniel Kruse
Creators — Nik Sysuev
Crip Club — Lilly Lions, Shan Hafez
Crisis Actor — Lily Platt
Cruda Verdad Dura Moral — Daniela Garcia
Crystal Mountain — Louise Zhang
Dark Skin Bruises Differently — Susan Wokoma
Day in the Death — Emil Stern
Dear Upstairs Neighbors — Connie He
Death of a Parent — Katie Graham, Andrew Matthews
Deathahedron — Owen Dennis
Degree of Certainty — Simon Schneider
DEI
Delay — Wang Han-Xuan
Desi Dad — Yoni Lamm, Mookie Thompson
Diana the Huntress — Ayesha Fernandez
Diego — Melissa Silveira
Dirt — Isabella Speaight
Disc — Blake Winston Rice
Do I Know You From Somewhere? — Alan Scott Neal
Doctor Death Grip — Amber Schaefer
Don't Break — Joachim Spruijt, ZEP, Robin van Geemen
Don't Forget to Dance — Carmen Flood
Down the Length — Milo Edwards
Drifting, South — Di Zhang
Dua Ji — YuHan Tsai
Eat — Barrett Carroll
Echoes — Alex Lanipekun
Echoes Beneath the Hill — Aime Octave
EDGAR: Enhanced Data Gathering Analysis Robot — Virginia de Witt
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe! — Andrea Szelesová
El Frío Que Guía Luz — Emily Gularte
El Tiguere — Andrew J. Rodriguez
Enough — Brian Tee
Epic Yarn — Andrew Gordon
Eructation — Victoria Trow
Europa — Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal
Everything Must Go — Tiffany So
Extremist — Sasha Molochnikov
Face Punch — Erick Solis
FarEye — Hayden Mclean
Fault — Misha Calvert
Faux Bijoux — Jessy Moussallem
Fawn — Molly Mayhew
Fennel — Logan Fields
Fight for the Fantasy — Marissa Goldman
Firebird — Eric William Davis, Lapka Dolma Tamang
First Out — Michelle Salcedo
Fjallferð — Jesse Elliott Erwitt Smolan, Ollie Maine Smith, Josh Mitchell Jimayu Fairmont
Floor — Jo Bareun
Floored — Emily Alpren, Marchelle Bradanini
Flower of the Dawn — Mark Risley
Fly — Carlton Daniel
Following — Briana Pozner
For Niko — Alexandra Shipp
Foreign Body — Mathieu Mortelmans, Cécile Delberghe
Fox — Darius Norowzian
From Sidney, With Love — East Elliott
FruitHead — Mike Diva
Gallina — Fernando Reinaldos
Gauze — Noran Fikri Alezabi, Nicholas Arujah, Xinyue Ma, Yulin Yue, Xiaonan Zhou
Gender Studies — Jamie Kiernan O'Brien
Get Her Back! — Leah Nanako Winkler
Getar Hero — Teddy Stern
Gimme — Steven Schloss
Glitterbomb — Brian Leahy
Gobstopper — Pippa Feldberg Collins
Gorillaz: The Mountain, The Moon Cave & The Sad God — Max Taylor, Tim McCourt, Jamie Hewlett
Grenadye Alaso! 1974-2026 — Leo Volcy
Grown — Audrey Cicerello
Habibi — Alexey Evstigneev
Halfrican
Haram Salami — Negine Jasmine Sekandari, Ayda Rojhantalab
Hazirun — Erol Küçük
Hector and Cheo — Ken Wu
Hesperia — Alec Moeller
Hide — Brenden Hubbard
High Voltage — Hannah Whisenant
Higher Education — Jenna Rossman, Tessa Lee
Holy Shit — William Adiguna
Homebodies — Rachel Olson
Hot Sheet Motel — Alexandria Lane
How Brief — Kelly McCormack
How to Hide It — Ramla Ali, Richard A. Moore
Hummingbird — Lorena Gordon
Hunting — Lea Favre
Hyena — Altay Ulan Yang
I Am the Prize — Sai Karan Talwar
I Choose Today — Kanya Iwana
I Got My Brother — Victor K. Gabriel
I Think About Killing You — Ran Ran Wang
I Wanna Go Home — Danielle Shapira, Matt Sweeney
I Want to Hook Up With Dylan but My Social Score Is Negative Ten Trillion — Nellie Luna
If You Really Love Me, Outlive Me — Alejandro Ruax, Saskia d'Altena
I'm Glad You're Dead Now — Tawfeek Barhom
I'm Not Home — Elena Parasco
Imprint — Ran Jing
In the Flesh — Emily Frances Kaplan
In the Still of the Night — Aristides Mantilla
Infinite Rifts — Aquila Chase-Daniel
Intervention! — AJ Prager
It Comes in Waves — Michael Petruzzelli
It's All Fine — Brendan Beachman
It's Complicated — Darine Hotait
It's OK, Johnny — Deniz Akyurek
Jane — Eva Ravenal
Jeff Hilliard – Love Myself — Jeff Hilliard
Joke — Bob Cryer
Józefa — Kathryn Kalucki
Karayr (Cave) — Neo Apelian
Katya — Timofey Pozhitkov
Kaya (ᜃᜌ) — Isabel Lamers
King of the Iron Will — Scott Vickers
Kink — Carissa Gallo
Kit — Lottie Amor
Knitting Club — Diogo Abrantes, João Rito
KPOP Smoothie — Haneol Lee
La Lucha de Lucía — Maria Sofia Hernandez
Last Man Up — Hazel McKibbin
Last Stand at Butte City — Natalie Schwan
Laundreams — Evie Ward-Drummond, Amber Gadd
Laundry Day — Ben Sibulkin
Leaving the Light — Steven Krueger
Leopard — Dan Abramovici
Life Goes On — Kat Butterfield, Daniel Audritt
Lift Me Up — Tomisin Adepeju
Lightning Bug — Zane Pais
Listen — Taliesin Black-Brown
Little Bug — Matt Branston
Little Chaplin — Alfonso Jeronimo Campos
Little Problems — Chris de Krijger
Living With a Visionary — Stephen P. Neary
Loop — Brenton Gieser
Love Bomb Squad — Adriano Valentini
Lovebug — Jalaludin Trautmann, David Mahmoudieh
Lucha — Japhet E. Velazquez
Lunch Box — Romeo Okwara, Sean Billings-Almendarez
Lynyrd Skynyrd "Free Bird" (Official Music Video) — Max Moore
Main Character — Jacob Bronfman
Make Sense — Jackson Beebe
Mango Seed 《芒果芯》 — Berni Jiang
Mantis Stream! Like and Subscribe — Lincoln Robisch, Sarah Maerten
Marga en el DF
Mary the Widow — Ryan Noufer
Mataron a Pedro — Kristian Mercado
Meeting Your Maker — Gregory JM Kasunich
MerryGo — John Laww
Mesopotamia, TX — Lucy Gamades
Metafear — Shuhei Morita
Method Cowboy — Carlos Valdivia
Micro Bangs — Iris Breward
Middlemarch: Miss Brooke — Kimberley Furst
Midnight Drop — Ricky Staffieri
Miles of Life — Charli Doherty
Milk Bleb — Emily Kim
Million Dollar Man — Riley Scott
Miriam — Lauren Blumenfeld, Jennifer Chambers
Missed — Nell Riley
Mokunin 黙認 — Sebastien Abdelhamid Godelu
Mon Taxi — Meriem Sakrouhi
Morty — Chandler Crump
Mother and Ulysses — Mushi Cai
Muddy — Logan Rice, Sophie Powers
My Dog: The Paradox — Matthew Inman, Hannah Friesen
My Girlfriend Turned Into a Worm — Alex Herz
My Plastic Mother — Amar Haikal
Nail-Biter — Joseph Burch
Neighborhood Watch — Vincent Rutley
Never Give Up! — Tamás Yvan Topolánszky
Never Tonight — Leo Kim
Next — Adam Peltier
Night Feeds — Rana Roy
No Worries — Amber Steigelfest
Nobody Knows the World — Roddy Dextre
Not Valid for Travel — Jiaying Lin
Odd Socks — David Ledger
One Last Order — Sam Soko, Lauren DeFilippo
One More Cup — Max Wagenblass
Oneiros — Junbo Qiu
Pale Sun — Adrian Moyse Dullin, Jawahine Zentar
Pangea — Mimi Davila
Pankaja — Anooya Swamy
Paper Angels — Sebastian Hill-Esbrand
Paper Pilots — Fiorella Vescovi
Papillon (Butterfly) — Florence Miailhe
Paving the Way — Keelan Williams
Pencils Down — Karen Maine
Perfectly Normal People — Tobias Nathan
Peter — Hannah Van Der Westhuysen
Phantom Carousel — Efosa Osaghae
Pigeons — Amos Sussigan
Playground Director — Carlos Torres, Karen Torres
Please Return Your Cart — Kendra Jo
Plumped — Nora DeLigter, Faye Tsakas
Poisoned Skies — Caroline Friend
Power Trip — Patrick Willems
¡Que Suene La Banda! — Jorge Parra Jr.
Quinn — Gianluca Mangiasciutti, Stefano Usberghi
Reflections Under the Electric Sky — Devin J. Dilmore
Remedy in the Rhythm — Jon Boogz
reTIRED — Mari Jaye Blanchard
Riffel — Yentl Vlachos
Room of the Absolute — Natalie Shirinian, Elizabeth Baudouin
Saba — Liron Topaz
Sad and Lovely — Cameron Guignet
Sand — Shahaf Sinai, Eyal Roe
Sandwich — Shalom
São Paulo, New York — Eduardo Machado
Sauna Sickness — Malin Barr
Savage — Josh Bowman
Save the Date — Eyal Resh
Scissors — Hannah Alline
Scope — Emma Moffat
Scraps — Marina Michelson
See You, Soon — Jay Pendarvis Jr.
Selah — Lara Everly
Send Nudes — David Sick
Set Pace — Daisy Ifama
She Chose War — Sarah Moshman
Short King — Yoni Azulay
Shut the Fuck Up, When We Speak — Ryan Darbonne
Shutterspeed — Jasper De Maeseneer
Signal — Zak Jarvis
Silver Anniversary — D.M. Harring
Slay the She-Wolves — Philippe Cormier
Snack Attack — Adam Moorman
Son of a Bikram — Johnny Rey Diaz
Son of War — Mohannad Al-Sudani
Souvenir — Renée Marie Petropoulos
Spill the Frijoles — Stephanie Osuna-Hernandez
Spilled Milk — Jared Leaf
Sprout — Jason Chen
Stalling — Jasia Ka
Stay for the Q + A — Hazart
Steel Ballet — Ellington Vernon Hammond
Still Life — Sophie King
Stud — Aude Thuries
Summer Project — Yuki Hara
Supper — Savannah Braswell
Supreme Clientele 2 — Whipalo
Susurros — Alexandra Pewinski, Marie Lombard, Florian Reignier, Emma Pluchard, Lisa Francillon, Alice Parmentier
Sweetwater — Michael Keaton
Swim Sistas — Cat White
Sync — Luboš Vacke
Tadpole — Ethan Lader
Taji — Mahdi Borjian
Take Me to Your Merch — Symone Baptiste
Talk Me — Joecar Hanna
Tash – "Attention Is a Drug (Remix)" — Sterling Hampton, will.i.am
Temporal Takedown — Martin Sofiedal
Thanks to Meet You! — Richard Hunter
The Angry Bird — Jack Lilleywhite
The Baddest Speechwriter of All — Ben Proudfoot, Stephen Curry
The Baker's Hotline — Emily Schuman, Dave Schuman
The Barbershop — Diêm Camille
The Beard — Kelsey Fordham
The Chimney Sweeper — Jack Raese
The Color — Lukas Kunzmann
The Colosseum — Nabil Kechouhen
The End Is at Hand — Japhet E. Velazquez
The Girl Who Cried Pearls — Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
The Going Rate — Henrique Gonçalves
The Gun — Randall Christopher
The Impression — Luke LaFontaine
The Inheritance — Destinee Stewart
The Intimacy Coordinator — Louisa Connolly-Burnham
The Kalgan Horse — Zichen Zhao
The King of the Full Moon Night — Christian Silva
The Late in Life Guide to Modern Day Lesbianism — Emelie Claxton, Molly Rangel
The Lemonade Stand — Jordan Watkins
The Liars of Black Mountain Road — Parker Croft
The Lovers — Alice Mao, Sophia O. Paez
The Macks – Dually of Man x The Modern Grape — Alec Kaplan
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World — Vassili Schneider
The Oracle — JJ Adler
The Pigs Underneath — Charlie Dennis
The Portrait — Julia Hogg
The Second Life of Freddie Nole — Dana Nachman
The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too Much — Eric Jackowitz
The Sisters of Scott County — Courtney Hoffman
The Spectacle — Bálint Kenyeres
The Ticket — Jayla Hodge, Jaylin Hodge, Jerah Milligan
The Time My Grandmother Was Held Hostage by Bank Robbers — Rosella Tursi
The Turning Point — Rishi Raj
The Unnamed — Abanoub Nabil
The Veil — Gabriel Motta
The Waddles — Max Jenkins
The Walls — Dakota Rodes
The Witches of Pool Bottom — Ava Bounds
The Worm — Tom Noakes
Them That's Not — Mekhai Lee
They — Renée Zellweger
They Haunt Him — Ria Pavia
Thick Skin — Helena Hawkes
This Conversation Has Been Removed — Andrew Nolan
Tiramisu — Katerina Munis
Too Romantic — Talia Light Rake
Townies (or, My Little Town) — Callum Adams
Toy Gun — Keenan Gray
Tu Viens D'où — Lola Glaudini
Une Fugue (To the Woods) — Agnès Patron
Unveiled — Regina Ainsworth
Useless — Ariel Heller
Vengeance Is All I Have — Christian Osagiede
Verbs — Jacob Lane Dugger, Lucia Ahrensdorf
Verse — Noam Argov
Viewfinder — Adam Byrnes
Viktori
Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank — Wesley Wang
Vultures — Dian Weys
Wait — Paige Morrow Kimball
Water Cooler — Emma V.F.
Wax Girl — Stimson Snead
We Dream in Colour — Kane Wilson
We Were Here — Pranav Bhasin
Wet Leg – Pokemon — Elliott Arndt
Weval – Open Up That Door — Bear Damen, Merijn Scholte Albers
What's Happiness — Aniefre Essien
When the Geese Flew — Arthur Gay
When the Revolution Doesn't Come — Aurora Brachman
When They're Gone — Ragan Henderson, Lauryn Darden
White Agbada — Lande Yoosuf
Why Do You Hate Me? — Chelsea Garcia Collazo
WildKind — John McDaid
With Tapes and Toasts in the Car (Im Auto Tapes und Butterbrot) — Kiana Naghshineh
With Time — Jenny Lee-Gilmore
Woman Land — Yasmin Yassin
Woman Reclining on Grass — Claudia Doumit
Yaoguai — Mimi Lee
You Tryna Say You Love Me? — Ty Molbak
You're Not Safe — Sam Balcomb
Zina — Vicky Wight