Festival
A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2025
With more than 21 S/W alums featured in the 2025 SXSW lineup, let’s dive into their films and see what they have in store!
Documentary
David Friedman
Inventor Portrait: Ralph Baer
Retirement is for people who work, not for people who live. David Friedman's short but inspirational portrait of inventor Ralph Baer.
Festival
Cannes Critic's Week Shorts @ MUBI
There goes your weekend. Cinephile streaming website MUBI is partnering with La Semaine de la Critique (Critics Week) in Cannes to celebrate 50 years of its programming by showing a retrospective of films from the festivals history.
Dramedy
Michael Cera
Brazzaville Teen-Ager
In a self-effacing attempt to save his father from a death by deterioration, a young man enlists his curmudgeonly boss and Kelis to perform a song, and a miracle.
Dark Comedy
Matt Spicer
It's Not You, It's Me
Starring Gillian Jacobs (Community), a young woman's relationship takes a dark turn when every sound her boyfriend makes starts to annoy her.
Drama
Haroula Rose
Wedding Dress
When long-lost brother Michael returns home, he meets Rayanne, his brother's new wife. An unusual relationship blossoms.
Music Video
Oliver Goodrum
Consequences Of The Kill
The lowest depths of mankind comes out in this music video about unchecked violence.
Drama
Abraham Felix
Change
Amid disconnection and almost painful solitude in the face of the mounting horrors of COVID-19, a blocked musician discovers a ray of hope.
Fantasy
Liam LoPinto
The Old Young Crow
Mehrdad, an Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman in Tokyo. Many years later, he reflects on Chiyo’s sudden disappearance through his old sketchbook in a combination of animation and live-action techniques.
Musical
Brandon McCormick
That's Magic!
A dispassionate master of the stage is brought to see the magic around us every day.
