/Shorts

This year’s 49 short films traverse borders, generations, and inner worlds, illuminating the fragile ties that bind us—to family, memory, place, and one another.

From stories of migration and exile to intimate reckonings with history, identity, and belonging; from childhood’s tender thresholds to acts of care in moments of crisis; from disappearing landscapes and vanishing species to the ways we preserve voice, legacy, and time itself—these films move through personal and political terrain with urgency, wonder, and grace. Spanning continents and communities, the 2026 shorts offer vivid encounters with lives in motion, revealing the forces that shape us and the resilience required to endure, remember, and imagine what comes next.

2026 Shorts Programs

2026 DC[FRAME] Shorts Programs