WME’s Student Short Film Showcase Futurefest Sets 2025 Lineup

EXCLUSIVE: WME has unveiled the 2025 lineup for FutureFest, its student short film showcase spotlighting diverse filmmakers, which is in its third year.

This year’s showcase will take place at the American Film Institute on Saturday, November 8. Filmmakers selected are representing schools including AFI, England’s National Film and Television School, NYU, Columbia, and USC.

View the lineup below.

DADDA by Aimee Hoffman (AFI)

Logline: Amidst his wife’s flourishing career, a once hotshot director turned stay-at-home dad, becomes convinced his hands are inexplicably shrinking. In a desperate search to re-enlarge his hands, he puts his family and sanity at risk as things grow out of control.

DAY OUT by Dermon Goulielmos (NFTS)

Logline: A young man, Michael, makes it his life’s mission to break his dying grandfather out of the hospital to fulfill his wish of dying at home.

ENTRE TORMENTAS by Fran Zayas (NYU)

Logline: After a hurricane ravages his hometown, a grieving man breaks into an off-limits cemetery to rescue the lost remains of his brother.

EXTREMIST by Alexander Molochnikov (Columbia)

Logline: A young Russian artist makes an anti-war statement by swapping food labels with pacifist messages in a Moscow supermarket, leading to her arrest and the threat of a 10-year prison sentence.

NERVOUS ENERGY by Eve Liu (NYU)

Logline: On the cusp of success/failure, two unhinged female filmmakers decide to break up with their boyfriends and for once, make a bold decision with their lives.

THE HICKS HAPPY HOUR by Kate McCarthy (AFI)

Logline: In 1972, the ever-smiling mother of a family band struggles to keep the family’s TV variety show and wholesome image going when Dad doesn’t turn up to the season finale taping.

THE THINGS WE KEEP by Joanna Fernandez (USC)

Logline: Forced into a caretaker position, Kate comes home to pack up her estranged mother’s house. While struggling to clear her mother’s hoarded possessions, Kate discovers the insidious nature of her mother’s illness lying behind the house’s walls.