
Crying OUT Loud: Bittersweet Shorts
Rest Your Head
Directed by Prasanna Sellathurai, 2025, United Kingdom, 8:54 Min
A nervous queer couple tries 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 an 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, in contrast to 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.
A Year Without Shadow
Directed by Luis Fernando Midence, 2026, Guatemala, 15:23 Min
After the end of a ten-year relationship, Matias navigates the stage of Grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally, acceptance. Through visual metaphors and encounters with key characters, he will discover that losing his shadow wasn’t the end, but rather the beginning of a new light.
Spanish with English Subtitles.
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.
TICKETS
EVENT AT A GLANCE
Time: 7:30 pm
Cost: $10
Venue: Sun-Ray Cinema
Duration: 95 mins
Type: Drama, Film Fest 2026 - Tampa, Shorts