• SAME PLANET, DIFFERENT WORLDS

In our increasingly connected world, real and imagined barriers continue to drive a wedge between people from different backgrounds. These compassionate and cutting stories highlight unexpected encounters across the class divide.

Showtimes

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Festival Theaters 5

Short Films

JESTER

A depresed jester sets out across plague-ridden England to rescue the Queen's nephew, and to prove he is more than just a fool

BAD FOR A MOMENT

A team-building event goes wrong and brings the owner of an architect studio face-to-face with the lower-class neighborhood that his company is gentrifying.

RENT BOY

Driven by ambitions of being a concert pianist, a young sex worker violates a client's privacy, triggering unexpected consequences.

EMIGRÉ/AMERICANA

On the day his asylum is finally set to be approved, a Pakistani immigrant becomes the victim of a violent racist attack, triggering a chain of events that transform his life in ways he never expected.

SUSANA

A middle-aged American woman finds herself alone in Mexico City. When she encounters a group of young American tourists, she jumps at the opportunity for a little adventure.

INFLATABLE BEAR, HOURLY

A young immigrant actress—dressed as a costumed bear—faces a surreal odyssey in Berlin’s Soviet-era outskirts, where a chaotic birthday party blends humor, tragedy, and the echoes of a home she can’t forget.

ShortFest 2025