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Student Short Showcase

April 25, 2026 - 1:00 PM @ Somerville Theatre - Screen 1
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Films in This Package

  • Burnout (UMass Lowell)

    Burnout (UMass Lowell)

    A young man spirals through nicotine addiction in reverse, uncovering how one moment with a girl led him to his lowest point.

    Directed by:Angel Disla
    Runtime:14 minutes
  • Chasing Dragonflies (Fitchburg State University)

    Chasing Dragonflies (Fitchburg State University)

    An investigation into our relationships with time, family, consumption, and our own mortality through the lens of Estate Sales and how objects can assume a life of their own, even becoming an intergenerational thread.

    Directed by:Milena Mahoney
    Runtime:15 minutes
  • A Cowboy Named Jazz (Lesley University)

    A Cowboy Named Jazz (Lesley University)

    Don’t change your song to fit someone else’s melody.

    Directed by:Cassidy Madigan
    Runtime:11 minutes
  • Dawnland (MassArt)

    Dawnland (MassArt)

    An apathetic museum archivist is tasked with returning a mythical artifact back to its resting place, deep in the forest.

    Directed by:Massimo Chinosi
    Runtime:15 minutes
  • Doors (Wheaton College)

    Doors (Wheaton College)

    After Clary and her boyfriend, Bran, break up, Clary faces an internal battle of whether this is a relationship worth fighting for.

    Directed by:Lily Maguire
    Runtime:9 minutes
  • Failed Transmission (Tufts University)

    Failed Transmission (Tufts University)

    When Peter abandons his body for a digital simulation, his fiancée, Renn, must enter the machine to save their relationship.

    Directed by:Eran Avni-Singer
    Runtime:15 minutes
  • Letter to My Past (Bridgewater State University)

    Letter to My Past (Bridgewater State University)

    An elderly woman peers through time to watch her younger self, with all of her success and struggle yet to come.

    Directed by:Lillian Donovan
    Runtime:3 minutes
  • Morphia (Endicott College)

    Morphia (Endicott College)

    An athlete battling body dysmorphia pushes himself to his breaking point under his father’s relentless training, until a medical crisis forces them both to confront the cost of perfection.

    Directed by:Bryan Joshua Bennett
    Runtime:7 minutes
  • Si Solamente (Boston University)

    Si Solamente (Boston University)

    17-year-old Esme, faced with fear and uncertainty, must shield her 8-year-old baby brother, Juan, from the truth when humanity takes part in separating her family.

    Directed by:Kerlin Campos
    Runtime:14 minutes
  • Silent Tears (Suffolk University)

    Silent Tears (Suffolk University)

    After fleeing war-torn Armenia, composer, and pianist Grigori Balasanyan channels the voices of his displaced people into an opera that captures their pain and resilience, proving that even in the darkest times music can preserve history and heal the soul.

    Directed by:Olivia Messer
    Runtime:15 minutes
  • Slug (Middlesex Community College)

    Slug (Middlesex Community College)

    As a broken man fights night after night in underground arenas to earn his way back to the people he loves, the line between redemption and self-destruction begins to blur.

    Directed by:Aedan Moriarty
    Runtime:9 minutes
  • Tick (Emerson College)

    Tick (Emerson College)

    A couple tries to conceive a child on Martha’s Vineyard, but their idyllic vacation unravels when strange rashes begin to appear on their bodies.

    Directed by:Sam Permar
    Runtime:14 minutes