SHORTS PROGRAM 4:
PERSONAL/SOCIETY/IDENTITY
Affecting comedic and dramatic tales in which the intimate, unavoidably, meets the social.
Sunday, October 5 – 4:45pm – UNCSA ACE Theatre Complex | 80 minutes | Includes a post-screening Q&A
PERIOD
Directed by Kat Olson | USA | 2025 | English | 10:41 | Narrative Short
Trapped in a nightclub, a trans man must brave the women’s bathroom after an invasive visit from that time of the month.
A MATTER OF POULTRY
Directed by Nandini Bapat | USA | 2025 | English | 12:51 | Narrative Short
When an ordinary guy on the cusp of starting his dream job finds out he’s pregnant with an alien parasite, he flashes back to the time he told his teenage girlfriend to not get an abortion.
*First-time filmmaker. Student project, Los Angeles City College
JUST BETWEEN US
Directed by Zac Hug | USA | 2024 | English | 15:48 | Narrative Short
Sam and Dustin’s open marriage works… until a nosy friend asks if they ever have sex just the two of them. Sam spirals. Cue one pool, one himbo, and several bad decisions. As lines blur and intentions backfire, Sam is forced to reckon with what intimacy looks like when love isn’t so black and white.
*First-time filmmaker
OPEN TO IT – PRIDE SPECIAL: “OPEN TO DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR”
Directed by Frank Arthur Smith and Matt Hartman | USA | 2025 | English | 18:08 | Narrative Short
A family-friendly episode – believe it or not!!! Cam and his drag-family read for drag queen story hour – but unwelcome visitors aren’t so excited about the idea. Elsa brings her nephew Georgie, shielding him from her friends’ bawdy comedy. Princeton goes to support his classmate Jasper’s Deaf drag queen friends, despite Princeton’s disdain for anyone younger and cuter than him (which is all children).s
A SIMPLE ASK
Directed by Nadya Naumann | USA | 2024 | English | 8:53 | Narrative Short
Nida is a young Muslim who can’t bring themself to confess a crush. In asking for assistance from Allah on one of their forest walks, they inadvertently summon a fearsome ancestor who gives them the push they’ve been waiting for through some unconventional means.
SORORITY
Directed by Ashley Gianni | USA | 2024 | English | 13:31 | Narrative Short
A trans woman of color in the early stages of her transition learns to accept herself when welcomed into the sorority of sisterhood in the most sacred of places, the women’s restroom.