Bootie’s from director Milana Vayntrub is a fun as hell short film comedy. Full of empowerment in sex work, lead and writer Grace Canaan shows us that you can have a whale of a time doing something you love. Overworked assistant Emmy (Grace Canaan) also moonlights at a lap dance
Category: HollyShorts Film Festival
Plastic Surgery ★★★★ 1/2 HollyShorts Film Festival 2025
Guy Trevellyan’s Plastic Surgery is an urgent and phenomenal short that highlights an issue that most people push to the side. He marks himself as a filmmaker we have to keep an eye on with this debut. Dr. Terra (Anna Popplewell), a trauma surgeon, is on her last shift before
My Favorite Murderer ★★★★- HollyShorts Film Festival 2025
Mitzi Akaha is fantastic in the short rom-com horror My Favorite Murderer, a film that nails it in tone, while still leaving you wanting more than the 9-minute runtime allows. Hopeless romantic Gayle (Mitzi Akaha) also loves her some true crime, so much so that her loving boyfriend Cameron (Skyler
Holy Smokes ★★★★ HollyShorts Film Festival 2025
Holy Smokes is a short film that that refuses to take itself seriously, continually conjuring up hefty laughs for its audience, yet what keeps you watching is the chemistry and performances from leads Galilea La Salvia and Alex Costello. This is one you need to catch. After “sinful” stoner Lauren
The Pic ★★★ 1/2 HollyShorts Film Festival 2025
If you are after a light and rather delightful comedy short, then Frances Chewnings’ The Pic will be right up your street. Single mum Jen (Frances Chewning) is just chilling at home after setting her daughter down when she gets a message from her friend Steve (Dan Lippert). Suddenly, she
Fireline (short) ★★★★ Hollyshorts 2024
Robin Takao D’Oench’s intense short film Fireline takes us not only into the heart of wildfire fighting but into the lives of the inmates tasked with fighting them. Showing us how we shouldn’t be so quick to judge someone – a sublime and impactful short. After being denied parole, an
Saint Vassily (Short Film) ★★★★ HollyShorts 2024
Rife with tension, Saint Vassily is an absorbing short thriller from writer and director Masha Egieva. An excellent film that forces us to look morally within ourselves while highlighting the powerlessness we face those more powerful than us. In 1982, in the USSR, Vassily, an ambitious student, prepares for his
Triptych (Short Film) ★★★★★ Hollyshorts 2024
Sophia Ray’s utterly stunning Triptych is a triumph of a short film. Its beauty and unsettling nature, coupled with its psychological surrealist horror, make it a captivating exploration of the price of ambition. Ray has crafted a visually and auditorily alluring piece that will keep you engaged long after finishing
The Lake in the Sky ★★★★★ HollyShorts London 2024
Teenage filmmaker Caleb Reese Paul has made something quite extraordinary with the riveting The Lake in the Sky. From the first second of this deeply textured 17-minute short film, you are thrown into a thoughtful and reflective film. Warren (Caleb Reese Paul) is an isolated and grieving teenager who has
Where Are All The Gay Superheroes? – ★★★★ HollyShorts London 2024
Tom Paul Martin’s fantastic Where Are All The Gay Superheroes? explores that continually prodding question. It is an important short film that should open up a multitude of conversations. After saving the world once again, superheroes Sterling and Meridian take a rare moment to be alone from prying eyes. The
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