Garden Valley

Director Manuel Navarro · Runtime: 0:27:36

Inspired by the horrific Mann family murders of spring 1988, Garden Valley follows two friends lost in a haze of hard rock, reckless choices, drugs, and volatile romance. Set against the bleak landscape of the Garden Valley trailer park on San Antonio’s Southside, the story unfolds over one fateful day—April 14, 1988—when their lives descend into chaos, obsession, and the lingering psychological shadows of violence.

Sweet Dreams

Director Gary David Alvarez · Runtime: 0:34:12

Set in a near future where the ability to dream has all but vanished, Sweet Dreams follows Esperanza, a young woman on the brink of first-time motherhood. Weeks before her baby is due, her partner, Kiké, disappears without a trace. As Esperanza searches for him and her financial resources rapidly dwindle, she is drawn to a controversial new technology known as surrogate dreaming—a process that allows expectant mothers to sell the dreams of their unborn children through a specialized dreamcatcher clinic.

What begins as a desperate means of survival soon takes a troubling turn. After a trial session, Esperanza grows suspicious that the clinic may be entangled in Kiké’s disappearance, forcing her to confront the true cost of commodifying dreams, memory, and the future itself.

TrueMate

Director Valentina Munoz · Runtime: 0:09:24

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Alice feels like she will never find love again. That's when she finds an AI dating simulator, there she meets the AI Adam. The two fall in love, but soon Alice will have to try to escape the trap she wove.

TURNED

Director Julio Cesar Gonzalez · Runtime: 0:05:00

Una mujer es perseguida, y al estar huyendo, es atropellada por un vehículo conducido por una mujer, la conductora al querer ayudar, se da cuenta de que la mujer está haciendo una víctima esta mujer, sintiéndose culpable la rescata de sus víctima arios, sin darse cuenta que ahora ella era la víctima.

A woman is being pursued; while fleeing, she is struck by a vehicle driven by another woman. The driver, intending to help, realizes the woman is being victimized and—feeling a sense of guilt—rescues her from her tormentors, unaware that she herself has now become the victim.

JUNK BOYZ

Director Andrew Jacobi Jeter · Runtime: 0:29:45

During a routine day hauling junk around Red Deer, Jake and his crew hustle to establish the 'Junk Boyz' start-up. Tensions flare when a new hire gets into a heated clash with a rival junk crew, narrowly broken up by storage manager Maddy. While doing a quick drop-off, Jake and Jesse make a strange discovery inside a locked unit that exposes the team to an impossible threat. Later, the crew warns their boss before retreating to the office to decompress. Completely unaware that the rules of their world have already shifted, their late-night drive home turns harrowing when a traumatized runaway boy fractures their final moments of normalcy.

Exhale

Director Anoop Chakravarthy Bajineni · Runtime: 0:18:19

Danny gets a late night call from his ex Jess asking him to come over. When he arrives, he quickly realizes something is wrong in the house and he is not leaving anytime soon.

Jess tells him she called to confess something she has never told anyone. What begins as a confession about her dark past and a mysterious friend who once saved her slowly turns into something far more unsettling.

Trapped inside with her, Danny is forced to face a reality that keeps slipping out of control as truth and delusion start to blur.

Where’s The Cake?

Director Jonathan Romo · Runtime: 0:07:21

Where’s the Cake follows a man whose simple errand to pick up his birthday cake is derailed when his car breaks down. Forced to continue on foot, he quickly becomes lost in a chain of escalating, unpredictable events that pull him further away from his original plan. What begins as a minor setback turns into a tense, disorienting night shaped by bad timing and circumstance.