Lifelines 2023
Two friends rekindle their connections after years apart.
Two friends rekindle their connections after years apart.
Two girls take justice into their own hands after friends and counselors brush aside their accusations of sexual assault.
A pensive 11-year-old girl challenges the status quo with a group of misfit friends while attending a religious summer camp.
A flatulent sketch show that breaks wind on all the cringeworthy situations where you're just desperate to let one rip.
Rohan, a young man, returns home to a bustling household in preparation for his birthday party. As the family gets caught up in the chaos of the occasion, tensions rise and arguments erupt. Feeling overwhelmed, Rohan seeks refuge in his room, only to find himself transported to a parallel universe. Here he meets Zoneout, a formidable entity who provides him with valuable insights into his predicament.
A blossoming writer learns that his artistic hero isn't all he thought he was in this satirical exploration of how one separates the art from the artist.
A young poet grapples with his decision to leave society during the end of the world.
A young man with trust issues goes on a date with a very supportive young woman.
A young Arab-American hides his passion for stand up comedy from his immigrant father in order to avoid bringing shame to the family.
Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance and begins to see glimpses of the future. These glimpses lead him to a series of cicada shells, which become symbolic of his desire to shed his old self. Though his lineage ends with himself, Jumpei starts anew as a father-figure to his sister's young son.
In this apocalypse, chicken is the seeking resource and it's up to three idiots to make the delivery. To make THE POULTRY DASH.
A young girl discovers a new way to see and experience the world.
An emerging actor’s big break lands when she’s cast on a 1950s sitcom. Her excitement gives way to dread when she realizes that her director is a fastidious AI that demands perfection – but is unable to articulate what it’s looking for in a performance. Cory Williamson has created a surrealistic, subversive and ultimately nightmarish film that manages to disturb as strongly as it engages.
A young Mexican farmworker in 1970s Salinas enlists for the Vietnam War to prove his manliness to his father.
Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to die. As the persimmon mysteriously, or supernaturally, holds out from drying, so Tamotsu tries his hardest to keep the man alive. Only when Tamotsu has let go can the persimmon take its natural course.
This mock trailer is based off of the second novel of C.S. Lewis's space trilogy, Perelandra, and follows Dr. Elwin Ransom as he travels to the fantastical planet of Venus.
A violin student wrestles with her motivations for studying what she loves.
Two sisters reminisce on their childhood and memories of their mother in order to cope with the guilt of a serious crime.
The ultimate short film experience, and the pizza delivery of the century.
An ambitious grad student returns to her childhood home to say goodbye to the memory of her late kid sister - only to be shocked when her sister walks through the door and says hello.