Love is Strange: Romance Shorts 2025

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.

Queerly Beloved: Pride Shorts in the Park 2025

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.

Poetic Portraits 2025

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.

Cemetery Shorts 2025

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.

Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story

Sister Nancy, one of the most legendary Dancehall artists to grace a mic, has been largely unknown. It’s time to rectify that.

Move Ya Body: The Birth of House

House was born in Chicago, where the backlash against disco led to the creation of a musical subculture centering Black and queer people.

Rooftop Selects: Farm-to-Screen Shorts

Humans, animals, Earth—this new program explores our tangled ties through docs, narratives, and experiments on climate, care, and kinship.

Vidas Vibrantes: Shorts en Español 2025

Rhythms born of heartbreak and hope pulse through this bold collection of Spanish-language shorts—stories of resilience, longing, and reinvention, told across Mexico, the Caribbean, and beyond.

Mistress Dispeller

Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. With strikingly intimate access, Mistress Dispeller follows this unfolding family drama from all corners of a love triangle.

By Design

A woman swaps bodies with a chair and everyone likes her better as a chair.