Baking With Boris

Every morning, Boris the village baker makes a fresh batch of crusty bread and pastries for all his neighbours until… Achoo! He can’t stop sneezing. He has become allergic to flour. How will he manage to keep baking for everyone in the village?

Narrative • Drama • France • 2024 • 8 Minutes
Director: Maša Avramović
Writer: Maša Avramović
Producer: Reginald de Guillebon, Nicolas Burlet, Draško Ivezić

Every Dog Has Its Day

Every Dog has its Day is a detailed observation of a small event that relies on warmth, charm and character rather than scale and spectacle to tell the story of a little dog and its owner.

Narrative • Drama • South Africa • 2025 • 7 Minutes
Director: Lindsay Van Blerk
Writer: Lindsay Van Blerk
Producers: Dave Evnmey, Mpho Makhalemele, Lindsay Van Blerk

Langue de Chat

While attending a family reunion, little Léo videotapes the guests and is intrigued by the unflattering animal monikers they secretly call each other. His imagination goes wild, to the point of picturing them as a spectacular menagerie.

Narrative • France • 2025 • 8 Minutes
Director: Sarah Legras-Marie, Alexia Monnier, Timothée Beauville, Sibylle Bank De Loof, Cindy Ly, Assia Le Tellier, Al Charvet
Writer: Assia Le Tellier, Sibylle Bank De Loof, Sarah Legras-Marie
Producer: Franck Pettita

Dream Defenders

A trio of scrappy yet lovable plushies, known as the Dream Defenders, must fight off nightmares and save their frightened kid, Sammy.

Narrative • Action/Comedy • USA • 2025 • 4 Minutes
Director: Nicole Nowel
Writer: Nicole Nowel
Producers: Nicole Nowel
Cinematographer: Nicole Nowel
Editor: Nicole Nowel
Composer: Dante Paz
Cast: Aspen Schucker, EG Canzano, Erik Ventura, Anna Slawski, Benjamin Howells
Festivals: Elgin Film Festival, Big Picture Peoria Film Festival
Local Connections: Nicole Nowel is from Chicagoland
Public Contact: Nicole Nowel
Email Address: nowelnicole@gmail.com

Anaglyph

Violet lives in a red, anxious world. She can’t take it anymore, eaten away by so many little things. She feels an invisible haunting presence, jumbling her reality. Violet must learn to see in a new way to understand herself, her mind, her ghosts.

Narrative • Drama • Spain • 2025 • 9 Minutes
Director: Valle Comba
Writer: Francesc Xavier Manuel
Producers: Carlota Coronado, Giovanni Maccelli, Belinda Bonan

Two Ships

While working opposite schedules, a couple attempts to maintain their connection through fleeting encounters.

Narrative • Horror • Portugal • 2025 • 6 Minutes
Director: McKinley Benson
Writer: McKinley Benson, Mackenzie Benson
Producers: Mackenzie Benson, Bruno Caetano

The Trial

A young woman mentally constructs her own trial and comes face to face with a masculine justice system.

Narrative • Psychological Drama • France • 2025 • 5 Minutes
Director: Lian Cornieux, Ingrid Lala, Agathe Arduini, Ilan Blauwblomme
Writer: Ingrid Lala
Producers: Rudy Turkovics (Piktura)
Editor: Agathe Arduini & Ilan Blauwblomme
Composer: David Mecheri
Public Contact: Patrick De Carvalho
Email Address: patrick2carvalho@gmail.com

Eat Your Fish

In this fable, a little bear cub must learn to deal with his emotions after his first encounter with death.

Narrative • Fantasy • France • 2025 • 6 Minutes
Director: Marc-Antoine Bricout, Arthur Rouvres, Mathieu Beaussart, Maria Amzal, Andy Helli
Writer: Marc-Antoine Bricout, Arthur Rouvres, Mathieu Beaussart, Maria Amzal, Andy Helli
Producers: Carlos De Carvalho (Piktura)
Editor: Mathieu Beaussart
Composer: Léo-Paul Guislain
Public Contact: Patrick De Carvalho
Email Address: patrick2carvalho@gmail.com

Hell

A place where dreams are real, wishes come true, and everything is always awful for everyone.

Narrative • Drama • USA • 2025 • 5 Minutes
Director: Parker Croft
Writer: Parker Croft
Producers: Nolan Gould, Parker Croft, Erika Totoro
Executive Producers: Mitzi Johnson
Editor: Erika Totoro
Composer: Ian Chase
Cast: Sean Marquette, Sharon Powers, Bill Welden
Public Contact: Angela Gould
Email Address: contact@adversarypictures.com

Facade

Lego man discovers ways to cover up his real face and emotions wondering why he would want to look like himself when he can look like everyone else.

Narrative • Drama • USA • 2026 • 3 Minutes
Director: Sam Slowik
Alumni: This is Sam’s third film shown at LCFF, after Hang and Learning To Fly

Buster Boone

Buster Boone is a wanted man. He’s been on the run for so long, he thinks everything is out to get him. Maybe he’s crazy, or maybe he’s not, either way, there’s a bounty on his head.

Narrative • Comedy • USA • 2025 • 2 Minutes
Director: Giovanni Crocco

Fellow

After a bloody battle in the First World War, a German Red Cross dog scours the devastated landscape for survivors. When he finds a wounded and terrified young soldier, he decides to take him back to the safety of the camp. Their fragile complicity becomes a glimmer of humanity in the midst of the absurdity of war.

Narrative • Drama • France • 2025 • 7 Minutes
Director: Martha Rivière, Laura Darras, Théo Bergougnoux, Gaspard Keller de Schleitheim, Johanne Coppier, Romane Casha
Writer: Martha Rivière
Producers: Philippe Meis (Supinfocom Rubika)
Editor: Théo Bergougnoux
Composer: Esteban Fernandez
Public Contact: Patrick De Carvalho
Email Address: patrick2carvalho@gmail.com

Rush To Be Ready

Her friend is going to be there in 5 minutes

Narrative • USA • 2025 • 1 Minutes
Director: Maria Eleni Sterr
Alumni Connection: Maria directed A Trip To Somewhere Else from LCFF2024

Susurros

From the witch hunts of 17th-century Europe to the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States in 2022, Susurros follows the story of two women faced with a pregnancy they did not choose. Separated by four centuries, Maria and Adeleida see their destinies echo each other inevitably. In the shadow of obscurantism, history repeats itself.

Narrative • Drama • France • 2025 • 7 Minutes
Director: Alexandra Pewinski, Marie Lombard, Florian Reignier, Emma Pluchard, Lisa Francillon, Alice Parmentier
Writer: Alexandra Pewinski
Producers: Philippe Meis (Supinfocom Rubika)
Editor: Emma Pluchard
Composer: Esteban Fernandez
Public Contact: Patrick De Carvalho
Email Address: patrick2carvalho@gmail.com

WildKind

Voiced by three generations of one family, WildKind is a poem painted to awaken the senses, a fluid journey of hope and healing across our shared watercolour motherland. A universal bedtime story, a call to nurture a life wild and kind.

It’s Complicated • Drama • Northern Ireland • 2025 • 8 Minutes
Director: John McDaid
Writer: Ciara Tinney
Producers: Ciara Tinney
Executive Producers: Fionnuala Deane
Editor: John McDaid
Composer: Robbie Boake
Cast: Jo Tinney, Ciara Tinney, Adabelle Boake , Fiadh Rós Boake, Birdie Blue Boake
Public Contact: Festival Formula
Email Address: submissions@festivalformula.com

Good Luck To You All

A young girl plays with her toys, unaware that she might just be holding humanity’s remote control. Voices of tech experts blend innocence, hope and mild panic about AI. This whimsical yet cautionary tale asks: Who controls AI, who profits, and who’s still waiting for the manual?

Narrative • Comedy/Drama • France • 2025 • 7 Minutes
Director: Cordell Barker
Writer: Cordell Barker
Producer: Alicia Smith