Live Action Shorts

Experience creative storytelling at its best with this stellar collection of Live Action Shorts!

Approximate Runtime: 82 mins

WE WERE HERE
In a sleepy old Indian town, convinced that machines are replacing them, three retired men threaten to take over the jobs of household appliances. Directed by Pranav Bhasin, 2025, India, Hindi & English with English subtitles, 10 mins.

JAZZ INFERNAL
Koffi, a young Ivorian trumpeter, arrives in Montreal with nothing but the legacy of his father to guide him. Lost between the city’s noise and the silence of his past, he must confront his roots to finally find his own voice. Directed by Will Niava, 2025, Canada, 16 mins.

HAND
A heart-broken college student ignores a grotesque hand infection as she develops an obsession with stains on her carpet. Directed by Jennifer Winterbotham, 2025, USA, 18 mins.

AMÉRICA
América, a 10-year-old girl from a remote village in the Peruvian Andes, dreams of getting a bicycle so she’ll never be late for school again. But to earn the money to buy it, she needs to come up with a plan. Directed by Javier Arias-Stella, 2025, Peru, In Spanish & Quechua with English subtitles, 16 mins.

FOLLOWING
A social outcast’s life is forever changed when he discovers Melissa Joan Hart is inexplicably following him. Directed by Briana Pozner, 2025, USA, 13 mins.

RELAY
On Montana’s Blackfeet Reservation, a 10 year old boy watches as screens consume his family. When the lights go out, he glimpses what he’s been missing. So as the world flickers back to life, he makes a choice—one that could change everything. Directed by Thilo Gundelach, 2025, USA, 15 mins.

BORDERLINE
A Norwegian customs officer, a Finnish poacher, and a mysterious Swedish woman meet at the border between their homelands, becoming entangled in a conflict over laws, language, and prejudice. Directed by Johannes Vang, 2026, Norway / Finland / Sweden, in Saami, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish and English with English subtitles, 12 mins.