Official Selection 2025
SHORTS 1
SATURDAY, NOV. 8 / 2PM
This screening session features 5 short films (line-up below).
​All selected films are in English and/or have English subtitles.
Marilyn Monroe Theatre at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute,
7936 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California.
Map, parking & arrival tips.

Knife, Chocolate (Iran) by Hooshmand Varaei
This movie is the story of a happy family! The son of the family is antisocial, psychotic, skeptic and sexist who judges women by the smell of their cosmetics!
Running time: 00:15:00

Iris (Canada) by Gabriela de Andrade
Freed from romantic expectations and capitalist interests, wouldn't friendship be our most authentic model of relationship? Isn't it there, especially between women, that the foundations of patriarchy crumble? In her film Iris, the director Gabriela de Andrade celebrates this perspective through an intimate and poetic documentary born from the voice messages exchanged between her and her friend.
Running time: 00:17:00

Dragonfly (China) by Siyang Liu
Great-grandson Zhou Zihang has only two memories of his great-grandmother - her funeral and a contact. Unable to remember season and weather, he only remembers the persimmons that were handed to him and the unexplained crying
Running time: 00:19:27

Disco (United States) by Molly Longwell
Fourteen year old JoJo has a sleepwalking episode that leaves her haunted and determined to solve its mystery.
Running time: 00:14:15

Get You Better (United States) by Danica Jensen
Based on true events; When an in-denial alcoholic is turned away from a treatment center for not being drunk enough, his estranged girlfriend must find a way to get him drunk to get him into rehab.
Running time: 00:20:00