MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FEST Short Films, Big Impact!
Discover your inner film critic by attending the 27th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival screening at Sturm Memorial Library. You’ll join film lovers in over 500 venues across the globe gathering to see the ten short films featured in this year’s event. By virtue of their selection by MANHATTAN SHORT, each short film is automatically Oscar-qualified. Ballots for Best Film and Best Actor will be supplied to attendees at each screening. Votes will be sent through to MANHATTAN SHORT HQ with the winner announced at www.manhattanshort.com on Monday Oct 6 at 10 AM EST.
Register to attend one of these screenings:
2:00 – 4:45 pm Thursday, September 25
5:30 – 8:15 pm Thursday, September 25
2:00 – 4:45 pm Friday, September 26
5:30 – 8:15 pm Friday, September 26
9:15 am – noon Saturday, September 27
All ten films will be shown at each screening. You may register for more than one screening if you want to re-watch them. Registration is needed to ensure ample seating and popcorn for everyone. Register by calling Sturm Memorial Library at 920-596-2252. Participants are welcome to bring snacks and non-alcoholic beverages for themselves.
The MANHATTAN SHORT 2025 Final Ten are:
Em & Selma go Griffin Hunting (USA), Al Fresco (Spain), Chasing the Party (USA), Paradise Man (USA), We Have Sinned Before You (Israel), I Have My Reasons (United Kingdom), Ovary-Acting (Norway), Beyond Silence (The Netherlands), Zodiak (Belgium), Passarinho (Mexico). The trailer for 2025 MANHATTAN SHORT is available at https://youtu.be/Lgfk2TD_mQE.
The MANHATTAN SHORT 2025 line-up screens a worldwide line-up of 10 short films that explore a wide range of topics relevant to everyone. Have a look at both dramatic and comical takes on migration, reconciliation, housing prices, parenthood and the price of silence, not to mention the trials and tribulations of growing into adulthood, especially when fantastical and dangerous griffins fly overhead and you have an OMG murderous mother. Audiences will find it more difficult than ever to vote for Best Film and Best Actor.