Deep Dish Dimples

Director: Manuel Villarreal

2024 • USA • 9 min. • English

When Gio, a Black trans man, calls his best friend Lazette for help burying a body, the two are pulled into an unexpected confrontation with the past. As whispers of family wounds and unresolved trauma echo through the night, Gio must face a surreal encounter with his pre-transitioned self. What begins as a desperate mission transforms into a journey of acceptance, love, and self-forgiveness, reminding us that healing comes from embracing every part of who we are.

The Cave

Director: Matias Breuer

2025 • USA • 15 min. • English

An 1850s explorer wanders the California countryside, searching for a cave rumored to have mystical powers.

The Last Sleep

Director: Federica Bertelloti

2024 • Italy • 15 min. • Italian with English Subtitles

Landon, a young nobleman, fails to meet his father’s expectations due to his homosexuality. The man cruelly torments him in an attempt to change him, ultimately driving him to suicide. However, Landon had concealed an intimate and profound love with a vampire, who now refuses to accept his loss and seeks revenge against his tormentor.

Trigger Warning: References to suicide and gore.

Smells Like Soap

Director: Indica Marley DeRose

2025 • USA • 6 min. • English

A newly wed couple move in together for the first time. As they sway to music together in the living room, Vela expresses her love for Charlie. Vela becomes increasingly intense with her proclamations of love and Charlie begins to suspect that Vela is not the person that she thought she married.

Trigger Warning: Violence and gore. Themes of obsession and violence in relationships.