Atlanta Micro Short Film Festival Film Festival
12:00 PM - What We Found here - Shorts 1
Enter a world of the surreal, the poetic, and the unsettling. This collection of micro shorts blends experimental visions, sci-fi twists, haunting memories, and mythic love. From reincarnated ashes to doppelgängers and distorted realities, these bite-sized stories explore what happens when perception shifts and nothing feels quite real.
Total Running Time: 106 min
Screening Saturday May 10, 2025
DUST
Turtle?
Turtle?
Director: Kyle Baughman
Country: United States, United States
Run Time: 2:56
Genre: Other
Synopsis: After a woman is cremated, the dust from her body drifts through space and time, seeking reincarnation.
Turtle?
Turtle?
Turtle?
Director: Yangqi Deng
Country: China
Run Time: 4:17
Genre: Other
Synopsis: A pseudo-reporting montage based on a true story about an unidentified object. All footage was taken from the Internet.
NOTHING
Turtle?
I don't love my mother
Director: 余 溢 兰
Country: China
Run Time: 3:42
Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: This short film tells the story of "him" encountering "her" in an elevator, creating illusions and desires. After being rejected, he cannot let go and begins to try to forcefully approach "her".
I don't love my mother
I don't love my mother
I don't love my mother
Director: GERARD CUQ
Country: France
Run Time: 4:59
Genre: Music Video
Synopsis: A woman plunges, through the iris of one eye, into water A woman dives, through the iris of one eye, into water illuminated by rays of light. She sings about her dislike for her mother... until her rebirth?
The Adventorous Cosmos
I don't love my mother
The Adventorous Cosmos
Director: Caudia Andrea Escobar
Country: United States
Run Time: 3:43
Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: The Cosmos is alien, playful, and extremely queer. In this short film, the Cosmos probes and flows through the everyday world, pushing the boundaries between the infinite and the familiar.
Embrace the Moon
I don't love my mother
The Adventorous Cosmos
Director: Katrina Pleasance
Country: Canada
Run Time: 4:40
Genre: Animated
Synopsis: The Moon Goddess falls in love with a human farmer. Even though they’re a world apart, she longs to meet her and uses her powers to bring them both together.
Mirror
Same thought
Same thought
Director: Nuno Serrão
Country: Portugal
Run Time: 2:40
Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: Life, like time, is an experience correlated to the observer’s point of view.
A series of vignettes exploring the concept of the observer effect in physics, using it as a metaphor for how we perceive the world.
Same thought
Same thought
Same thought
Director: Anastasiia Kirii
Country: Spain
Run Time: 1:19
Genre: Narrative
Synopsis: A poetic micro short film about breaking the rumination cycle.
London
Same thought
FAREWELL - Bond Of Two Sisters
Director: Francis Hanly
Country: United Kingdom
Run Time: 2:00
Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: ‘London’ is a film inspired by William Blake’s 1794 poem of the same name. The film is an impressionistic rendering of Blake’s nightmarish journey along the banks of the Thames as it winds its way through his visionary imagination .
FAREWELL - Bond Of Two Sisters
FAREWELL - Bond Of Two Sisters
FAREWELL - Bond Of Two Sisters
Director: Long Journey
Country: United States
Run Time: 1:00
Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: What if two sisters meet - together they feel untouchable, strong and invincible. But on their own a shimmer of vulnerability shines through.
Is Joe Home?
FAREWELL - Bond Of Two Sisters
Is Joe Home?
Director: Robert Tate
Country: United States
Run Time: 4:15
Genre: Narrative , Animated , Experimental
Synopsis: One day, I got a voicemail from a friend accompanied by an email of his sketches documenting an unspeakable childhood trauma.
Murdrum
FAREWELL - Bond Of Two Sisters
Is Joe Home?
Director: Joseph Job Gailey
Country: United States
Run Time: 5:00
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: A man wakes to find a second version of himself, but he can't stop his consciousness from being split, unless he tries something desperate.
BREAK THE SILENCE
BREAK THE SILENCE
BREAK THE SILENCE
Director: Dax Phelan
Country: United States
Run Time: 1:00
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: A PSA produced to encourage people who are struggling with mental health.
Boneworm
BREAK THE SILENCE
BREAK THE SILENCE
Director: Vincent Ricardo Dajani
Country: United States
Run Time: 5:15
Genre: Horror
Synopsis: A young woman wakes to the sound of her dead mother's voice from the hallway.
DRIFT
BREAK THE SILENCE
Delirium
Director: Lana Noreen Taylor
Country: United States
Run Time: 1:44
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: A heartfelt micro short film that follows a young woman whose world is shattered when she discovers that her long-term boyfriend has been unfaithful.
Delirium
SEVENTEEN (A DAY OF TEARS)
Delirium
Director: Cameo Sherrell
Country: United States
Run Time: 4:43
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: A young women's reality is fractured from the onset of paranoia schizophrenia.
Maybe Sometime Never
SEVENTEEN (A DAY OF TEARS)
SEVENTEEN (A DAY OF TEARS)
Director: Chris Hamameh
Country: United States
Run Time: 5:21
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.
SEVENTEEN (A DAY OF TEARS)
SEVENTEEN (A DAY OF TEARS)
SEVENTEEN (A DAY OF TEARS)
Director: Goran Šporčić
Country: Croatia
Run Time: 4:53
Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: Through the film, the ambition of creating a record of the real world on film is abandoned, but a poetic truth inspired by the real world is recorded.
Felt
Director: Branislava Dragovic, Sam Grima
Country: United States
Run Time: 2:52
Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: A felting artist’s creative journey is inspired by her family’s love and encouragement. A story of art, passion, and family connections. You don’t just wake up and become the butterfly.
The Miracle of You
Director: Peter Spruyt
Country: United States
Run Time: 4:58
Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: A man takes us on his meditation journey towards inner-peace and harmony, showing that in these enlightened times one can achieve self-forgiveness for just about anything.
THAT BOLEX THING
Operation Kandahar
Director: Paul Echeverria
Country: United States
Run Time: 3:30
Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: The Bolex is a Swiss-made film camera that played a pivotal role in the development of independent and avant-garde filmmaking. Introduced in the 1920’s, the camera's lightweight and portable design made it an accessible choice for filmmakers who wan
Director: Paul Echeverria
Country: United States
Run Time: 3:30
Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: The Bolex is a Swiss-made film camera that played a pivotal role in the development of independent and avant-garde filmmaking. Introduced in the 1920’s, the camera's lightweight and portable design made it an accessible choice for filmmakers who wanted to break away from the constraints of large studio productions.
Operation Kandahar
When Life Gives You A Lawnmower
Operation Kandahar
Director: Garrett Register
Country: United States,
Run Time: 4:00
Genre: Animated
Synopsis: Based on true events. A group of soldiers encounter a giant in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The Invisible Finish Line
When Life Gives You A Lawnmower
When Life Gives You A Lawnmower
Director: Cyrus C
Country: United States
Run Time: 4:30
Genre: Horror
Synopsis: 100 Sales in Nine Hours. Is That Possible? That’s for the Cryptic Boss to Know and his Employees to Find Out.
When Life Gives You A Lawnmower
When Life Gives You A Lawnmower
When Life Gives You A Lawnmower
Director: Moon Abbott
Country: United States
Run Time: 5:00
Genre: Dark Comedy
Synopsis: Things go awry as 1950s couple Dick and Brenda prepare for company. Dick, a blatant misogynist, just can't get his lawnmower started. Brenda, an innocent housewife, wants the yard perfect. A terrible accident ensues—and Dick gets exactly what’s coming to him.
FLAY
Lonely Island
Lonely Island
Director: Gwyneth Johnson
Country: United States
Run Time: 3:42
Genre: Horror
Synopsis: A social commentary on the stereotypes put on biracial/multiracial people. As conflicting voices arise, Isabella's confidence demises, and an innocent makeover turns into her need for "new skin."
Lonely Island
Lonely Island
Lonely Island
Director: Kristie Kish
Country: United States
Run Time: 4:22
Genre: Animated
Synopsis: A mixed-media short film about a starving man washed ashore on a mysterious island where he befriends a crab who helps him survive.
CONFESSION
Lonely Island
CONFESSION
Director: Brett Bower
Country: United States, United States
Run Time: 5:00
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: A man interviews a killer who was eventually captured. A power struggle plays out on both sides of the bars in this micro-short that will haunt you in your nightmares.
Nonlinear
Nonlinear
CONFESSION
Director: Matthias Klein
Country: New Zealand
Run Time: 4:03
Genre:: Sci-fi
Synopsis: A dangerous man encounters a home invasion of the third kind.
antisocial
Nonlinear
antisocial
Director: Tobias Rothacker
Country: Germany
Run Time: 2:25
Genre: Stop Motion
Synopsis: I am the hero, I’ll remain,
See only me, push you away,
Embrace destruction, face the pain,
Transforming swiftly in my own domain!
Blind to my path, antisocial in my reign.
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A vibrant mix of sound-driven storytelling and striking visuals, these micro-shorts blur the line between film, music, and experimental art.
12:30 PM Saturday May 10, 2025
Theater 2