From Omeleto. An actor struggles. BIG GEORGE is used with permission from Jamie Effros. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/biggeorgefilm. Hank is a middle-aged man, a father and an actor. He has made a living like any jobbing actor, booking roles and carving out a niche for himself as a George Clooney impersonator. But since the pandemic,…

From Omeleto. A young girl gives a gift. THE ORNAMENT is used with permission from Jinjara Mitchell. Learn more at https://instagram.com/jinjara. Tessa is a young girl whose class is preparing for the holiday season. She’s already made an ornament, which she sweetly gifts to her entrepreneur mother, Luna. She also has to complete an assignment…

From Omeleto. A teenager hangs with her crush. SUNFLOWER GIRL is used with permission from Holly M. Kaplan. Learn more at https://sunflowergirlfilm.com. Rosie is a Chinese-American teenage novice skateboarder living in New York City with her immigrant parents and younger sister. One summer afternoon, she’s tasked with delivering her younger sister’s forgotten lunchbox to school.…

From Omeleto. A father makes a request. THE SON WHO CAN’T PLAY TRUMPET is used with permission from Isaac Garza. Learn more at https://instagram.com/thesonwhocantplaytrumpet. It’s Lupe’s 65th birthday party, and his entire family has gathered to celebrate. There’s lots of music, food and laughter, but nothing would please Lupe more than to hear his son…

From Omeleto. A family crosses a border. US MX is used with permission from Joseph Hooten. Learn more at https://usmxfilm.com. Leah and her young daughter Ariel are in the desert. In the darkness of the night, they are crossing a border. The journey is dangerous, full of gunshots and bombs hidden in the ground. But…

From Omeleto. A man gets a message. IT’S NOT YOU… IT’S THE ALIENS is used with permission from Taylor Miller. Learn more at https://tayloranthonymiller.com. John has gotten a message from extraterrestrials. Both shaken and amazed, he shares the message with his girlfriend, Frankie. The first parts of the message are about humanity in general. But…

From Omeleto. A young boy sits alone. BOY IN THE BACK SEAT is used with permission from Scott Pickup. Learn more at https://instagram.com/scott_pickup. Jacob is picked up by his volatile father, Mikey, who drives to a local pub. Telling his son to stay put, the father goes into the pub. Time passes, and in the…

From Omeleto. A musician buries his work. RECOMPOSING EARTH is used with permission from Christian Cargill. Learn more at https://christiancargill.com. Erland Cooper is a world-renowned composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who grew up on the Orkney Islands in Scotland. In 2020, he undertook an intriguing experiment: he composed a violin concerto celebrating local Orkney poet George…

From Omeleto. A girlfriend meets his parents. PAYASAM AND OTHER CAREFUL PROCESSES is used with permission from Akshay Ravi. Learn more at https://instagram.com/payasamfilm. Sidharth is a young Indian-American man who is visiting his parents for a family holiday lunch. He’s bringing his girlfriend Rachel along, and she’s excited to finally meet Sidharth’s parents after dating…

From Omeleto. A woman fights her A.I. WIRED is used with permission from Will Jewell. Learn more at https://wired-the-film.com. Becca has lost her partner and her job. Her life is in freefall, and she’s depressed, holed up in her apartment. Her only comfort is her A.I. smart hub, M.A.I.A., which soothes Becca, helping her with…

From Omeleto. A woman hits her limit. MAGGIE’S NOT OKAY is used with permission from Vance Smith. Learn more at https://instagram.com/maggies_not_okay_film. Maggie is a nice, kind woman who is always helpful to everyone: her co-workers, her family, everyone. Even her boyfriend James tells her she is being taken advantage of and needs to stand up…

From Omeleto. A woman copes with loss. THE COCKROACH is used with permission from Mary Pat Bentel. Learn more at https://thecockroachfilm.com. Emily was in a life-altering accident, losing her limb. In the aftermath, she’s been angry, depressed and resentful, and only the presence of her daughter keeps her going. But the days are a struggle…

From Omeleto. A woman attends funerals. THE MOURNING OF is used with permission from Merced Elizondo. Learn more at https://mercedelizondo.com. Maribel is a young woman whose beloved mother has recently passed away. Mired in a heart-wrenching grief, she has begun secretly attending the funerals and wakes of strangers, where she sits among the crowd, offers…

From Omeleto. A father and son plan dinner. ALL AT ONCE is used with permission from Mustafa Toby Eck. Learn more at https://mustafatobyeck.com. Yasser is a young Arab-American man who is having his fiancee Stephanie and her family over at his father Ziad’s home for a traditional Middle Eastern dinner. Ziad, who came to the…

From Omeleto. A young boy builds a boat. LARGO is used with permission from Max Burgoyne‑Moore and Salvatore Scarpa. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/largofilm. Musa is a young boy and Syrian refugee living in a coastal British town. He lives with his foster parent, Grace; the rest of Musa’s family was lost at sea when they…

From Omeleto. A reunion goes awry. BRETT WAS A F-CK is used with permission from Keith Rubin and Lauren Sowa. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/brettwasafilm. A police officer named Kendra responds tos a noise complaint at the front gates of a Yale secret society, following up on reports of someone screaming. The door is answered by…

From Omeleto. A man meets his ex. WE GOOD is used with permission from Shawn Dempewolff. Learn more at https://shawndempewolff.com. Todd is a man whose company is going public. But before he can level up, both professionally and personally, he is haunted by anxiety over an encounter from fifteen years ago and is worried that…

From Omeleto. A man opens a shop. CHERRY COLORED FUNK is used with permission from Chelsie Pennello. Learn more at https://chelsiepennello.com. Roberto Ferrari is about to open his ice cream and gelato shop. He’s invested a lot in his dream — his entire savings, in fact — and everything has to be right. He goes…

From Omeleto. A marriage is witnessed. WITNESS is used with permission from Radha Mehta and Saif Jaan. Learn more at https://radhamehta.com. Mustafa is a revered imam in a small-town mosque, respected in his community as a leader. He is performing a Nikah ceremony — an Islamic wedding ceremony that is a religious and legally binding…

From Omeleto. Two women escape. BAL MAIDEN is used with permission from Aella Jordan-Edge. Learn more at https://aellajordanedge.com. In an 18th-century tin mining community on the Cornish coast in southwest England, Ruth and Loveday work together as "bal maidens," female manual laborers working above ground to crush and sort ore. It’s hard work, and they’re…

From Omeleto. A teenager is shaken. ABEL is used with permission from Dekel Berenson and Paul Wesley. Learn more at https://abelshortfilm.com. Abel is a 17-year-old first-generation Mexican-American who resides on a farm nestled in the outskirts of the Sierra Nevada mountains. When he’s not caring for the animals on the farm, he escapes into the…

From Omeleto. A mother wants to move. SINGLE RESIDENCE OCCUPANCY is used with permission from Omer Ben-Shachar. Learn more at https://omerbenshachar.com. Weiling is a mother and a Chinese immigrant in San Francisco with her two children, a teenage daughter named Mina and a younger son named Benny. The family has lived in a single residence…

From Omeleto. A family has dinner. SUPPER is used with permission from Joshua Ryan Dietz. Learn more at https://joshuaryandietz.com. A set of siblings have gathered at dinner, joined by a few cousins and other relatives. But what seems like a family gathering reveals another agenda: they’ve gathered to legally emancipate their brother and kick him…

From Omeleto. A woman survives a shark attack. MARCIA AND THE SHARK is used with permission from Sam Ferris Bryant. Learn more at https://ferrisfilms.com. It’s 1963 in Sydney, Australia, and Marcia and her doting fiance Frank are enjoying a holiday by the sea together. But a shark attacks Marcia, putting her in a coma before…

From Omeleto. Two women go on a date. LOVE MACHINE is used with permission from Jon Clark. Learn more at https://jonclarkfilms.com. Kayla and Veronica are on a date and have settled back at Kayla’s apartment. The vibe is promising and flirtatious, and the pair decides to ask each other the "36 Questions That Lead to…

From Omeleto. A young boy makes a tape. RECORDING is used with permission from Tanner Bouwhuis. Learn more at https://instagram.com/tanner_bouwhuis. Charlie is a young boy spending time in his bedroom, fiddling with his reel-to-reel tape recorder and other audio equipment. He’s alone, working on a project, but his mother, Elenor, soon joins him. She talks…

From Omeleto. A man cares for his mother. TOOTS is used with permission from Chris Alan Evans. Learn more at https://instagram.com/velvetysatin. Logan is a son caring for his mother, Pam, at home. She has Parkinson’s, and Logan sometimes feels burned out by the responsibility of caregiving. But he is devoted to her, and they have…

From Omeleto. A woman becomes a professional parent. THE PROFESSIONAL PARENT is used with permission from Erik Jasan. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/professionalparent. Ingrid is a single parent living in an eastern Slovak village with her ailing daughter and her resentful mother. Living in poverty with few job prospects, she works at a grocery store and…

From Omeleto. A vet faces a crisis. PUT TO SLEEP is used with permission from Eric C. Yang. Learn more at https://eric-c-yang.squarespace.com. Anna is a veterinarian who capably addresses each patient and case with calm competence. She brings a high level of experience to her work, dealing with animal ailments, illnesses and medical crises. Anna…

From Omeleto. A musician competes. FIRST CHAIR is used with permission from Cassidy Tee. Learn more at https://instagram.com/firstchairfilm. Charlie Mann is a seasoned, experienced and talented violinist who has long held the coveted "first chair" seat in his orchestra. But a newer competitor come to the fore, and is now challenging Charlie for the first…

From Omeleto. An assassin targets a co-worker. 1 IN THE CHAMBER is used with permission from Annie Girard and Diana Wright. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/girwrighty. Xo is a contract killer for hire who has been sent by her boss on a hit. She’s set to "retire" her co-worker Janice, but from the moment she enters…

From Omeleto. A man finds a missing woman. OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH is used with permission from Michael Pantozzi. Learn more at https://imdb.com/title/tt27731405. Tim is a photographer who has retreated into the suburban anonymity of Long Island. Disgruntled with modern life and increasingly reclusive, he’s wiped himself off the Internet, moved back in…

From Omeleto. A man gets an A.I. girlfriend. IN THE FLESH is used with permission from Jack Kuhlenschmidt. Learn more at https://instagram.com/thatkuhlguy. Jay is a tech company co-founder whose ex-girlfriend, Alison, has moved on. She’s now dating a prominent politician running for office, while he’s still struggling with depression. He turns to an experimental A.I.…