Let It Be a Tale

A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of the filmmaker's Volga-German Great-Great-Grandmother, Mary Frank Lind, in which she recalls key memories of childhood—her father's windmill, warm rains, wolf sightings, bone trading, and her passion for carpentry, which broke gender norms but was supported by her father.

One day, timid Cecille dares to ask a coworker on a date. As the night progresses, she sets her beautiful and hungry self free.

Four college journalists begin to question everything when a bloody fairy tale, read around the campfire from a stolen journal, starts to come to life.

Lux searches for the eraser he needs to fix his drawing, but when his attempts to get his family's attention are ignored, he begins to disappear.

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

After getting bullied for being a weirdo on the school playground, Natalie turns to the rabbits under her shed for help processing her difficult feelings. Together with the bunnies and Harvey the Hawk, Natalie learns valuable lessons about embracing difference and celebrating what makes each of us unique.

Trapped in their frames and monitored by a menacing curator, two paintings long to escape from the art gallery's white walls. As the paintings lock eyes across the room, an unspoken connection between them sets the stage for revolution. With a distinctive blend of live-action and animation, this short film by Evan Bode employs surreal metaphor to explore ideas about power, resistance, queer identity, visibility, and liberation from constructed borders.

Formerly incarcerated writer Marvin Wade speaks personally about his 25 years in prison and the positive transformation he achieved in spite of, not because of, the criminal legal system around him.

After her mother’s funeral, Wren returns to her childhood home for the first time in years. There she finds a ruined house, strange clues, and a dark presence among the trees.

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination blurs with reality in this hybrid work of live action and animation about finding a place to belong.

A soon-to-be father’s attempt to win back the affection of his ex is complicated when he accidentally shoots an arrow at the sun.

Mary, an audacious fashion photographer, one day takes something that does not belong to her from a cemetery and experiences unnatural events afterward. She assumes that by returning the object to its original place, she can avoid these occurrences, but nothing goes as she imagined.

Unimpressed with her actors and running out of time, film director Ash turns to dark and powerful methods to get the perfect shot and finally finish her movie.

Insurmountable medical bureaucracy pushes Roland, a transmasculine college student, to the absolute brink. Desperate for top surgery but blocked by systemic gatekeeping, his reality fractures when he discovers a classmate running a clandestine, illegal dissection operation. What started as a struggle against healthcare politics instantly devolves into a grim, body-horror bargain for survival.

After a disagreement with her mom, 8-year-old Natalie runs away — all the way to her backyard, where she meets a family of rabbits and decides to move in with them. Songs are sung and friends are made in this sweet, funny short film about building trust, overcoming fear, and connecting across difference to make room for everyone.