• GROWING PAINS

Sensitive, fantastical, and stirring, these coming-of-age shorts encapsulate the delicate and diverse experiences of today’s youth.

Showtimes

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Festival Theaters 1

Short Films

HOLY CURSE

During a visit to India, 11-year-old Radha grapples with their gender identity while subjected to manipulative orthodox rituals by their family who looks to dispel an ancestral curse they believe is distorting Radha's thinking.

MOON LAKE

Set in mid-2000s suburban Michigan, Tess, a reserved and strange middle schooler, stains the carpet at a sleepover.

AMARELA

On the day of the World Cup final between Brazil and France, Erika Oguihara, a Japanese-Brazilian teenager who rejects her family traditions, experiences a violence that seems invisible and plunges into a painful sea of emotions.

KUCHAR (THE ITCH)

After the whirl of a washing machine unexpectedly introduces her to new sensations, teenage Chanda struggles to conceal her new discovery within the household. Meanwhile, her strict and composed mother is keeping secrets of her own.

AGOGE

Placed in detention after a physical altercation on the school playground, two teenage boys find their developing friendship challenged by the limits of their emotional honesty.

CUB

A 12-year-old mixed martial artist grapples with her suffocating new sports bra and her domineering dad, pushing her changing body to surreal limits during her toughest match yet.

ShortFest 2025