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FLAMES
APOTHEOSIS
THE DRIVE
HollyShorts Film Festival – MOSHARI
A BITTER MURMUR
L’AUTRE RIVE
STUCK
BIASED

NEW SHOES
Set in 90’s Portland, teenager Tristan (Jacob Moran) and his prostitute mother Elaine (Laura Whiteley) live as normally as drug addiction allows. They have a

FLAMES
Flames opens with an aerial view of an urban town, quiet but populated, during the last minutes of twilight. A bustling transit line stretches before

APOTHEOSIS
Why wait for evolution to engineer a better breed of human? Max Pearce asks us just that question in a film called Apotheosis. Taking place

THE DRIVE
Dan Karlok’s devastating short drama The Drive proves that you don’t need a large budget, or a lengthy running time for that matter, to create

HollyShorts Film Festival – MOSHARI
Moshari opens with an expanding shot of mosquitos batting over a mass unseen in a foreboding opening of decay. We focus on a cow carcass,

A BITTER MURMUR
A Bitter Murmur is a horrifying paranormal short that introduces us to Sam (Cailyn Rice), a lonely woman who is watched over by the ghost

L’AUTRE RIVE
L’autre rive takes on the issue of homelessness and Montreal serves as the setting. The story is framed up against the 2020 decimation of a

STUCK
Simplicity is key. Filmmaker David Roncone seems to abide by that motto as his short horror film, Stuck, is as basic as it gets. This

BIASED
Writer and director Andrea Lwin’s Biased boldly asks the question: what if renting in Los Angeles could get even MORE egregious? Closely following the sudden