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Semi-Finalists Season 2025
Every season, our jury shortlists the works that rose above the field. Congratulations to the 115 semi-finalist projects of the 2025 season — each one a step from the podium.
115 Projects
26+ Countries
Hollywood Indie Festival
| Project Title | Directors/Writers | Country of Origin |
|---|---|---|
| 阿公 "Agong" | Brian Chen | United States |
| A Legend of Persephone | C.J. Palmisano | United States |
| A September to Remember | Sam Gollestani | United States |
| AIDS REVOLUTION | FREDERIC CHAUDIER | France |
| All Is Calm | Daniel Kavanagh | United Kingdom |
| Alone Together | Tobin Carter | United States |
| ANKH | Patrick John Angele Knight | Belgium |
| ATLAS OF UNCERTAINTY | Massimo Vito Avantaggiato | Italy |
| Birthday Boy | Michael Jonathan Gellis | United States |
| Black Harvest | James Amuta | Nigeria |
| Blank Slate | Steve Brock | Not Specified |
| body | Silvia Muzzioli | Spain |
| Broad Minded City | Quirino de la Cuesta | United States |
| Bygones | Fatih Demiran, Can Tavukcu | Germany |
| CELIO | Tawd B Dorenfeld | United States |
| Child of Dawn | Leslie A Lee | Not Specified |
| Chubby Chasers | Michael Dugan | United States |
| CIAO ANITA | Jacques Lipkau Goyard, Marco Kuveiller | Italy |
| College In Prison: Life With The Possibility Of Transformation | Jennifer Molina | United States |
| COLORADO | Eliot David Cooper | Not Specified |
| Conspiracy | Danny Angotti | United States |
| CPA | Gabriela Revilla Lugo | United States |
| Creative Vandal | Peter Pahor | United Kingdom |
| Crossroads | Laura Katherine Winter | United States |
| Cuba es Mi Patria: The Homeland I Keep Inside | Rose Marie Perez | United States |
| Curse of the Sin Eater | Justin Denton | United States |
| Dead Mom Card | Steven P Perkins | United States |
| Deal | Arthur Valdez | United States |
| Design is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli | Kathy Brew & Roberto Guerra | United States |
| Edgewater | Jason White | United States |
| ELUSIVE | ERIK R HUSKA | United States |
| FEROCIOUS | Dimitri Devyatkin | United States |
| Fighting Fear | Pascal Funk | Germany |
| FLEETING LOVE | Txus Angulo | Spain |
| Frozen Lies | Eric R Lotter | Not Specified |
| GARBO'S CUBAN LOVER | Odalys Nanin | United States |
| Getting Back | Haven Garber | Not Specified |
| Guardrails | Eric R Lotter | Not Specified |
| Headshot | Natalie Scarman, Aron Giagu | Australia |
| Hi: Part One | Monte de Albers de Leon | Not Specified |
| Hotline Miami | Michael Zegarra | United States |
| I Call On You My Friends | Joshua Charperrin Woodard | United States |
| INKOMU - A child's promise | Gautier Courquin | France |
| IRISO | Mitsuo Kurihara | Japan |
| JAKE | Francisco Paco Carrascosa | Switzerland |
| Journey | Damien Osborn | Australia |
| K3+ | Erasmo Acosta | United States |
| KEYO? ( WHY?) | Aparup Agarwala | India |
| Kipkemboi | Charles Uwagbai | Canada |
| LAST ISLAND (former "Big Bang and back") | Manfred Winter | Austria |
| Love Of An Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee | Delvene Delaney, Victoria Baldock | Australia |
| Love´s worst nightmare (ft. Liz Kretschmer) | Philippe Funk | Luxembourg |
| MAKTOUB as it is written | Ron Weisberg | United States |
| Mary Can I Have Ur Shirt Please? | JENNIFER LIM | United Kingdom |
| Metamorphoses | Aitolkyn Almenova | Kazakhstan |
| Miles and Me | Kalif Cooper | United States |
| Moon Shine | KT Roth | United States |
| Mother's Day | Theo Kaufman | United Kingdom |
| Movement towards freedom | Martin Gatti | Spain |
| Museum Closed | Brice Bowman | United States |
| My Last Journey | Karolien Vanhees | Belgium |
| Nafkot - Yearning | Malka Shabtay | Israel |
| NICKY NEWARK | Rhyan St. Clair | United States |
| Not a long time ago | Marcus Günther | Germany |
| Nothing Personal | Beege Barkette | United States |
| ODESSA | Amy Lyndon | United States |
| On The Record | Adam Goudchaux | Not Specified |
| One Thing to Say | Simon Cotter | United Kingdom |
| Open Dialogues: Gen QueerZ | Freddy Rodriguez | United States |
| Pancakes | Noelle Leslie-Morgan | United States |
| Pharaoh | Dimitri Devyatkin | United States |
| Pigasus: The Lost Paradise - Battle for Evermore | Sean Patrick O'Reilly | United States |
| PLOW | Aly Aleigha, Carlos Mendoza Guillén | United States |
| PRIKOSYMPHONO | Elena Gazi, Dolan Bailey, Alejandra Diaz, Leonardo Dal Fabbro | Greece |
| Rainbow Girls: 10 Years of Protection and Prejudice | Julia Gunther, Velisa Vee Jara | Netherlands |
| Real Mother | Tobin Carter | United States |
| Red Flamingos | John Bombay Gutierrez | United States |
| Right in the Sight of God | Terrence Ward | United States |
| Scarf Game | Cristina Neacşu | Romania |
| Season of Rain | Sergei Talybov | Belarus |
| Shattered | Mente Bezuneh | United States |
| Single & Thriving...Kind Of | Ananda White | United States |
| Skye Steele - Rise of Nefertiti | Howard Perry | United Kingdom |
| Starborn | Starry Venus | United States |
| Steal The Movie | Richard Duryea | United States |
| Superdupermegagigasingle | Håkon Anton Olavsen | Norway |
| Take Care Now | Richard Childs | Ireland |
| TERRIERS IN THE JUNGLE | Georja Umano | United States |
| The Ada Effect | Johanna Jake | Not Specified |
| The Case Officer | Ronald McQueen | United Kingdom |
| The Children of Angel Creek | Richard J Telesca | United States |
| The Color of the Evening Sky | Linda Kampley | United States |
| The Contact | Barış Tolga Ekinci | Turkey |
| The Deserter | Christoph Baumann | Germany |
| The Dreamers and I | Kenji Yamamoto | United States |
| The Grand Magister | Ioanna Spanomarkou, Areti Spanomarkou | Not Specified |
| The Grizzly | SID KRAMER | United States |
| The Heart Whisperer | Shaun Monson | United States |
| THE INTELLECTUAL NONSENSE | David A. Poric | Not Specified |
| The Language of Wolves | Nan Schmid | United States |
| The Mystic | Michael Rutkowski | United States |
| The Sea Remembers | Barry Ferrier | Australia |
| The Stalker | B.D. Reid | Canada |
| The Storm | Pamela Jikiemi | United Kingdom |
| The Worst Wedding Ever | Adam Sandel | Not Specified |
| Theatre Without Audience | Pawel Kocambasi | Germany |
| Timeless : A Symphony in Motion | Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia | United Kingdom |
| UMBRA | Harrison Pfeiffer, Jay Heyman | United Kingdom, United States |
| We Don't Want To Look Into A Bluesy Future | Frida Beineix | Germany |
| We Were Rabbits | Dannielle Pendzich | Not Specified |
| We're Happy as Clams | Derek Jaskulski | United States |
| What Liba felt | Frank Nesemann | Germany |
| When Vengeance Wears Heels | Robert Gene Holton | Not Specified |
| YOU ARE HERE - a dylan brody project | Dylan Brody | United States |
| Zone of Shards | Dániel Bóta | Hungary |
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