Short Film Program

Celebrate the start of Rooftop’s landmark 30th season with a dazzling night of new short films under the stars, three decades in the making.

The internet is where we lose ourselves, find each other, and glitch in-between. From brainrot to belonging, these shorts dive into how the virtual shapes our IRL identities, connections, delusions, and discoveries.

Reality bends, bodies break, and minds fracture in this delirious collection of shorts—stories of bodies in revolt, psyches in flux, and moments that slip between waking and dreaming.

Stay awhile and celebrate the culmination of our 29th season with a bittersweet collection of new short films.

From ghost towns to fever dreams, these animated tales stretch the imagination—and snap it back with a shiver. Uncanny, offbeat, and hauntingly tender, this is where dark humor and darker truths collide.

In traffic’s hum and memory’s hush, the city reveals its hidden heart—where stories collide and belonging is endlessly remade.

Feel the warm embrace of our annual program of romantic short films about what it means to fall in love—or, at least, something like it.

Identity is questioned, performed, mourned, and remade in this kaleidoscopic tapestry of queer intimacy, absurdity, and becoming. Unfolding in dive bars, dressing rooms, roadside stops, and echoes of the past, this year’s shorts revel in the humor, heat, and beauty of life lived out loud.

Tender, intimate, and formally bold, these docu-portraits trace love, loss, and identity across continents and generations, lyrically exploring the lives we carry and the selves we leave behind.

It’s hard to face the end of life’s long journey. Linger with us a little while longer, and experience a thoughtful collection of films that surprise, mystify, and stir the soul.