Short Film Program

Growing Pains: Coming-of-Age Stories

Some growing pains heal, while others just hurt. Like these films, they’ll stay with you long after you’ve come into your own.

Love is Strange: Romance Shorts 2024

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.

Poetic Portraits 2024

Immerse yourself in mesmerizing short documentaries that explore a kaleidoscope of realities.

Queerly Beloved: Pride Shorts in the Park 2024

Queerly Beloved, join us once again for our annual shorts program showcasing the vivid stories of LGBTQIA+ communities from around the world.

Vidas Vibrantes: Shorts en Español 2024

Transport yourself into vibrantly distinct worlds with a collection of Spanish-language shorts that explore memory, family, love, loss, and youthful mischief.

This is What We Mean by Short Films: Opening Night 2024

Dive into our 28th season with a delightfully frothy batch of the best new indie shorts!

How To New York

Celebrate our city with a spirited selection of new NY shorts, including an advance screening of How To with John Wilson‘s series finale!

Trapped: Mind-Altering Shorts 2023

Prepare for the peculiar with this batch of eerie mind-benders, surreal comedies, and demented dispatches from parallel dimensions.

Dark Toons 2023

A deliciously fiendish night of short toons with bad vibes, dark twists, and big feelings.

Dangerous Docs 2023

Venture along the boundary between danger and adventure, through abnormal nonfiction borderlands too unusual to be invented.