Three exceptional short films.

A Really Good Deal, Is That a Mirage? & Focal Point.

 

A Really Good Deal

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

Desperate to keep her mother’s magazine-selling legacy alive, Evelyn finds a creative way to make a sale.

Director(s): Sarah Stephens
Writer(s): Sarah Stephens
Producer(s): Sarah Stephens
Key Cast: Sarah Stephens, Chris Mayers

Los Angeles Premiere

 

Is That a Mirage?

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental

Juniper ventures into the desert with her talking tumor on a quest to save her mother, but has to choose between saving her mother and saving herself.

Director(s): Grace Shi
Writer(s): Grace Shi
Producer(s): Grace Shi, Oona Yaffe, Teddy Ninh, Ryan Rambach
Key Cast: Emma Galbraith, Asante Blackk, Jade Chang

Country: United States

 

Focal Point

2025 Official Selection: Featurette – SciFi

In a dystopian future, a grieving scientist discovers Earth exists within a single neuron. He launches a desperate quest across space and time to find his son.

Director(s): Raphael Buisson
Writer(s): Raphael Buisson
Producer(s): Raphael Buisson, Jack McMann, Kip Thorne, Rafael Maman, Hsiao Shih-Chun
Key Cast: David Alan Graf, Kip Thorne, Ranen Warren, Jessica Park, Alan Aymie, Tamara Becker Cimmerian, Christian Haines

Country: United States