From Omeleto. A young boy faces his fears. HECTOR’S HELL HOUSE is used with permission from John Adam Krueger. Learn more at https://johnadamkrueger.com. Elliott is a young boy, innocent, imaginative and somewhat anxious. He’s often convinced he can hear something in his house, but his police officer father wants him to be brave and conquer…

From Omeleto. A puppeteer struggles. FLUFF is used with permission from Jodie Irvine. Learn more at https://instagram.com/jodieirvine. Eunice is a puppeteer on a children’s television show. Though she’s been a veteran on the show for a number of years, she’s often belittled by her co-workers or overwhelmed by their chaotic work environment. When her puppet,…

From Omeleto. A young boy awakens. AN ARAB FAMILY is used with permission from Ramiel Petros. Learn more at https://ramielpetros.com. Shahz is in many ways a normal young American boy who loves hot dogs and soccer. But one day at practice, a fellow player asks about his father’s accent, and Shahz comes to realize how…

From Omeleto. A young woman tries to model. BEHIND THE POSE is used with permission from Sally Lomidze. Learn more at https://sallylomidze.com. Masha is a young woman on her own in a city far from home. Brought over to the U.S. by a woman named Katerina, Masha aspires to be a model, and now lives…

From Omeleto. Two co-workers confess feelings. YOU DON’T SAY is used with permission from Jeffrey D. Simon. Learn more at https://thebarn.la. Herbert and Lilith are two co-workers at a publishing house who have known each other for nearly years. They are madly in love with one another, but their shyness means their relationship hasn’t progressed…

From Omeleto. A young boy sings. CANTA SANTIAGO is used with permission from James Valdez. Learn more at https://jvfilm.com. Santiago is a young boy and mariachi singer facing his first solo performance. The featured local artist at a popular restaurant run by Don Pedro, he’s nervous, uncomfortable with his outfit. But it’s not just the…

From Omeleto. A woman goes shopping. YELLOW is used with permission from Elham Ehsas. Learn more at https://elhame.co. Set against the backdrop of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Laili is an intelligent young Afghan woman who has never before worn the chadari, or the full-body veil. But the Taliban now control Afghanistan and have issued a decree that…

From Omeleto. Garden gnomes battle an enemy. FOREVER is used with permission from Unifrance. Learn more at https://unifrance.org/festivals-et-marches/1275/mymetastories/2025. Directed by a team of filmmakers — Theo Djekou, Pierre Ferrari, Cyrine Jouini, Pauline Philippart, and Anissa Terrier — from France’s École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs, this rambunctious animated short turns the seemingly whimsical subject — the quiet…

From Omeleto. A toaster falls in love. SILVIANA DELUXE 250 is used with permission from Unifrance. Learn more at https://unifrance.org/festivals-et-marches/1275/mymetastories/2025. Directed by Frida E. Elmstrom, this wryly absurdist short romantic comedy is a tragicomic fable about love, jealousy, and the extremity of devotion. It follows the story of Silviana, a household toaster who is in…

From Omeleto. A woman lives with her dog. EVERYTHING WE MISSED is used with permission from Unifrance. Learn more at https://unifrance.org/festivals-et-marches/1275/mymetastories/2025. Directed by Marta Prokopova, this tender, poetic animated short explores love, loss and the quiet ache of overlooked moments with intimacy and emotional resonance. Eva is a toy-maker consumed by her work and daily…

From Omeleto. A woman needs help. FAVOURS is used with permission from Unifrance. Learn more at https://unifrance.org/festivals-et-marches/1275/mymetastories/2025. Directed and written by Agnes Skonare Karlsson, this short drama uses a relatively simple premise of a woman at a train station, stranded with a baby that she says is not her own. The taut, increasingly tense storytelling…

From Omeleto. A father and son join a race. SIERRA is used with permission from Unifrance. Learn more at https://unifrance.org/festivals-et-marches/1275/mymetastories/2025. Directed by Sander Joon, this Oscar-shortlisted animated short — the first ever from Estonia to achieve that honor — transforms a childhood memory into a surreal, emotionally charged fable about fathers, sons, ambitions and expectations.…

From Omeleto. Aliens wreak havoc. EUREKA is used with permission from Unifrance. Learn more at https://unifrance.org/festivals-et-marches/1275/mymetastories/2025. Directed by Kris Borghs, this animated short is a zany, even rambunctious cosmic comedy about the pitfalls of good intentions. Two eager and well-intentioned extraterrestrials descend upon a curious planet, determined to share their superior technological wisdom. Their mission…

From Omeleto. A young boy has a crush. YUCK is used with permission from Unifrance. Learn more at https://unifrance.org/festivals-et-marches/1275/mymetastories/2025. Directed by Loic Espuche, this Oscar-nominated animated short is a funny and wisely perceptive portrait of the borderlands between childhood innocence and curious adolescence, rendered in charmingly colorful and expressive 2-D animation. On vacation with his…

From Omeleto. A man meets a rival. WATER BABY is used with permission from Pilar Boehm. Learn more at https://waterbabyfilm.com. Ignacio is an influencer in the streetball space trying to boost his visibility and viability. With his skill videos and social content, he gets access to brand deals, fashion partnerships and media appearances, hoping to…

From Omeleto. A friend needs help. WINDS OF SILENCE is used with permission from Radha Mehta. Learn more at https://southasiansoar.org. Ziya’s husband has recently died, and her best friend Sunita has come with her family to participate in the scattering of ashes. But Sunita has another agenda: she wants to escape her abusive husband Hamit,…

From Omeleto. A man wants to marry. TILL DEATH DO US PART is used with permission from Jacob Hamblin. Learn more at https://instagram.com/hamblino. Alden works diligently as an apprentice for an undertaker. He’s also in love with a beautiful young woman, but he isn’t allowed to marry her because he doesn’t yet make enough money…

From Omeleto. A man gets a visitor. LAUGH WITH ME is used with permission from Karen McPherson. Learn more at https://elevatorproductions.com.au. Newly divorced, Matt is going through a crisis and retreated from the world, living in a remote rural forest in complete solitude. His only real company is a kookaburra bird, whose echoing laugh is…

From Omeleto. A woman meets her dream man. JOE is used with permission from Shara Ashley Zeiger. Learn more at https://theplatformgroup.org/joe. Jillian lives in Brooklyn in a rundown apartment with a weird roommate. She works as a barista in a neighborhood coffee bar, but it’s not quite the career she imagines for herself. But then…

From Omeleto. A man relapses. LIQUOR BANK is used with permission from Marcellus Cox. Learn more at https://instagram.com/cellusworld24 Eddie is a former Marine who has been in recovery. But on the day when he should be celebrating his one-year milestone of sobriety, he relapses, drinking in his apartment alone, unable to bear his internal torment…

From Omeleto. A young girl lives on her own. SURVIVED BY is used with permission from K.D. Chalk. Learn more at https://kdchalk.com. Grace is a newly orphaned girl grieving the recent loss of her father. Living on her own in the home they once shared, Grace has managed to elude being put into the foster…

From Omeleto. A woman sees old friends. MADHAVI is used with permission from Jacintha Charles. Learn more at https://instagram.com/madhavifilm. Madhavi was once a talented dancer. Now she is a divorced single mother, working shifts at a supermarket, raising her young daughter, Sonia, and carrying the weight of a past marriage marked by violence as she…