Short Film Program

Trapped: Mind-Altering Shorts 2025

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.

Wed Jul 23 7:00 PM

The Films

Burn Out

Russell Goldman | US | 12

An assistant will do anything to get a presentation in front of his boss… even set himself on fire.

Club Bunker

M+M | Germany | 8

In Club Bunker, the macro camera follows peculiar, anthropomorphic figures through various windowless rooms that alternate between bunker and club architecture. Club Bunker has traits of a hallucinatory memory, in which an acute danger always resonates.

Favours

Agnes Skonare | Sweden | 8

On a packed train platform, Sonja struggles to comfort a wailing baby. But the baby doesn’t belong to her: Sonja has agreed to watch a stranger’s child, and now, the mother is gone. At least, that’s what she claims.

Majonezë

Giulia Grandinetti | Italy | 22

Ersekë, Albania. Elyria lives with her family following the strict rules imposed by her father, hiding her anger with obedience. A powerful desire for rebellion grows in her day by day that will lead her to the fulfillment of a bitter, but necessary, act of revolution.

Potato Potato

Josh Locy | US | 14

When Cynthia writes a letter to the baby growing inside her about her hopes for the future, the baby writes back.

Ella se queda (She Stays)

Marinthia Gutiérrez | Mexico | 10

Throughout a night out in downtown Tijuana, Laura waits for her destiny to arrive.

Tight

Jessica Barr | US | 13

A woman grappling with difficulty finding pleasure after childbirth falls back on an old coping habit.

Event Details

7:00 PM
Seating Opens
8:30 PM
Films Begin

Venue

Brooklyn Commons Park

5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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