2025 selected works

Congratulations to the filmmakers and artists whose works were accepted to the 2025 edition of the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival!  We're thrilled to be able to share these outstanding and creative projects with our community.

We also want to express our gratitude to everyone who submitted this year. As always, we received far more excellent films than we can showcase. We are honored, and truly appreciative of all of those who submitted!

Stay tuned for this year's schedule!

"A Little Holiday" - This Space Space: Issue #3  I  Daniel Gonzalo Nosal
[sun]film  I  Derek Taylor
a film with sound (take three)  I  Josh Weissbach
A Place For Everything and Everything In Its Place  I  Sophia Stezala
A Veil of Sadness  I  Anton Maxwell Burek
Above the Mountain Majesties  I  Beth Davison
Above the Salt   I  Phillip Crum
Absolut  I  Caroline Rumley
American Getaway  I  Nick Johnson
Anywhere But Here  I  Kennedy Kacik
Bandida   I  Drew Broadhurst
Blink Once  I  Jim Haverkamp
Block E, No. 5  I  Çağla Gillis
Camera Roll 3 (2018-2022)  I  Charles Cadkin
Chops  I  John Dawson
Chrysalis  I  Edwin Lohmeyer
Collarbone  I  Marco Falcucci
Come Dream with Me  I  Grant Nuzum
Comet  I  Zen Cohen
Crac!  I  Dimitri Martin Genaudeau
Danger Zone  I   David Malone, Earl Holden C. Bueno
Darkness and Light  I  Alexander Barancheyev
Despite  I  Kate Raney
DIN 18035    I  Simona Obholzer
Eye Bird Blink  I  Scott Turri
Footprint  I  Mustafa Alami
From and to Nature, We Return  I  Bishoy Adel
Gillyfish  I  Sarah Sellman
Gyrograph  I  Gitte Le Bruyn
Infinite Infants   I  Tianming Zhou
Is this now the time I should let you go?  I  Yi-Chin Tsai
It's Just a Parade  I  Trinity Love Rollins
JohnDoeUntitledMediaInkOnPaper  I  Braden Burnside
Last Day  I  James Joseph Valiyakulathil
Lift and Oscillate  I  Carey Lin, Gabriel Gilder
Love Sucks  I  Conrad Faraj
M. L’espérance  I  Chantale Boulianne
Marble Madness  I  Zack Harold
Marionette Nez Rouge  I  Ella H Duffey
Microverse  I  Pat Clark
Mnemonic Fields  I  Michael Betancourt
Modern Vertigo  I  Pierre Ajavon
Mom's Going To Be So Mad  I  Brooke Russell
Monument Emitter  I  Ruiqi Zhang
Next Show in 90 Minutes   I  John T. Hill
Niches  I  Janelle VanderKelen
No Matter What   I  Carolyn Lambert
No Time of Deep Time  I  Eric Souther
OPIR*withShuShu*  I  Xenia Meierson
Petrichor  I  Juan José Arias Gil
Pictures of a negative chair  I  Magdalena Bermudez
Rain  I  Vasilios Papaioannu
Relics  I  carl knickerbocker
Rosetta's Lucky House I  Mary Rose McClain, Emma Dollery
See You Soon  I  Ted Hogeman
Senior Software Engineer  I  Scott Danzig
Shadows  I  Emerson Minor
she came to me in a noir fever dream  I  Neil Ira Needleman
SKRFF  I  Corrie Francis Parks, Daniel Nuderscher
smirnov fedot  I  Misha Ketov
Soiled Dreams  I  Nathaniel Hendrickson
Solid.  I  Victor Jimenez Verduzco, Kissel Bravo Hernandez
Somber Tides  I  Chantal Caron
Still Here / Immerdar  I  John Graham
Stone & Mystics  I  Dominick Michael Rivers
Sultry Afternoon  I  Jeanne Stern
sunflower shadows  I  roya zanbagh
Tan/Vatan  I  Homa Sarabi & Meenakshi Garodia
Tears for Lost Frequencies (I)   I  Monica Duncan, Senem Pirler
Ted Gold Did It  I  Lucas Lara Esteves
The Circle Children  I  J. Cody Spellman
The Girl With The Occupied Eyes  I  André Carrilho
The Gun Felt Good In My Hand  I  Daniel Robin
The Happy Pig  I  Vaughan Winslow Duncan
The Hungry Ghost & The Earthshaker  I  Takahiro Suzuki
The Inescapable Machine  I  Gavin Christopher Reiprich
The Last Puppet Show  I  Lonnie Frazier
The Litterbug  I  Jesse Womack
The Machine  I  Daniel Brody
The Motherfucker's Birthday  I  Saif Alsaegh
Tiger Lily Mountain Pass  I  Nate King
Toil and Spin  I  Maureen Zent
underneath it flickers  I  lau persijn
Up and Away  I  Edward Ramsay-Morin
Ursa Minor  I  Sophie Schmid
Waiting Up To Meet The Wolf  I  Anthony Carr
Warp Weft Water Weeds   I  John Rash
Wherever Street Piece  I  Panu Johansson
White birds worship the phoenix  I  LEOW
Wish you were here  I   Shaun Clark
You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer   I  Max Ferguson
Zero Feet Zero Inches  I  Timothy James Nohe

 

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Founded in 2010, the WVMSFF has been a hub for narrative and experimental filmmakers worldwide, bringing diverse cultural and artistic perspectives to West Virginia and the Appalachian region.