Crying OUT Loud: Bittersweet Shorts

Rest Your Head
Directed by Prasanna Sellathurai, 2025, United Kingdom, 8:54 Min

A nervous queer couple try to navigate their anxieties ahead of attending a South Asian family event.
Hogar
Directed by Sebatian Echeverria, 2026, United States, 15:11 Min

After his mother uncovers his secret, an anxious teenager must confront the one person who could take everything away: his father.
Half and Orange
Directed by Loukia Hadjiyianni, 2025, Cyprus, 18 Min

It’s summer on a farm in Cyprus. Valeria, a reclusive young writer, spends her days focused on her work. One evening, she meets Antigone at a party. Antigone is outgoing and carefree, contrasting with Valeria’s reserved nature. Amid the sunlit fields and beaches, Valeria and Antigone grow closer, discovering the beauty of a newfound desire. This bond helps Valeria grow and find new inspiration for her writing.
Greek with English Subtitles
Myles & Malik
Directed by Rahjiv Staten, 2026, United States, 25 Min

When a celebrated author and his fiancé reach the breaking point, one night unravels years of love, resentment, and silence. Myles & Malik is a searing, intimate drama about two Black men fighting for truth inside a relationship built on performance and pride.
Sister Wives
Directed by Louisa Connolly-Burnham, 2025, United Kingdom, 28 Min

Sister Wives is a multi-layered love story that tells the tale of young women living in a strict, fundamentalist, polygamous society in 2003 Utah, USA. Kaidence and Galilee find themselves bound to one another, under the same roof, in the same marriage, as they develop scary, new, exciting feelings for each other. In a harsh, regressive, watchful community where being queer is considered a cardinal sin, they begin having thoughts of leaving the only life they have ever known behind.