Winners 2025
Student Award
“The Inbetween” Dir. Theo Weierstall
Best Drama
Mourning Glory” Dir. Livi DarConte
Lebanese Independent Film Festival Award
“Heard” Documentary Dir. Gia Garcia
Audience Award
“In the Life of an Independent Film Producer” Comedy Dir. Allen Valor
Audience Award
“Who is Stacy Anderson?” Documentary Dir. Karan “K” Goria
Sci-Fi Award
“Invasion of the Space Vixen” Comedy Dir. Kimber Leigh, Klor Rowland AZ
Best Horror
“Chimp” Horror Dir. Tristan Seever
Animation Award
“Seeds of Change” Animation Dir. Brian O’Connor
Comedy Award
“Hitman Ex” Dir. Jamon Holmes
Fantasy Award
“Decisions in the Deep” Dir Raki Ralko – Writer Andrew Marshall
International Award
“A Night of Resolutions” Drama Dir. Dylan Gouze, Writer Raja Hanna Canada
Director’s Choice
“The Touch Was Gone” Horror Dir. Alexander Negrete
Alwun House
1204 E Roosevelt St, Phoenix, AZ 85006
November 28th, 29th and 30th, 2025
WIFF Official Selection 2025
| Project Title | Directors | Synopsis |
| Tommy 9/11 | A NYC firefighter disappears on 9/11, thinking it’s the best thing to do for his family. After ten years of staying away from his wife and son he never met, he’s finally had it and goes back to NYC to confront his own actions. | |
| The Sirens Keep Calling | A haunted soldier stumbles into a forgotten realm where time fractures, desire seduces, and a trickster god waits—offering paradise at the price of his soul. | |
| Astra | A woman with no memory awakens in an isolated medical facility where a doctor’s experimental treatments trigger violent visions—revealing the facility’s true purpose may be far more sinister than healing. | |
| THE SOUL THAT SCREAMED | Is this proof that souls exist? | |
| Perry | A mother and daughter from Connecticut and a victim of sex trafficking from Haiti are drawn into a dangerous web of exploitation on the streets of San Francisco. | |
| Eugene O’Neill’s – The First Man | Hardeep Giani | This is the first-ever film adaptation of The First Man – an early and rare story from the pen of Nobel laureate and Pulitzer prize winner, Eugene O’Neill. |
| Power Chord | Jedric Villar | Andrea, a punk-rock singer clashes with her boyfriend’s traditional family and confronts the question of love, belonging, and her true self. |
| Decisions in the Deep | Raki Ralko | An injured sailor is stuck inside a stranded submarine, with a plummeting air supply. He desperately tries fixing the radio to call for rescue. Why is he wounded and what happened to his missing crewmate? |
| The Hand | Jake Wyatt Unger | |
| 10 Reasons Why I’m a Bad Idea | Nate Williams is a charming, emotionally unavailable marketing consultant with a running list of reasons why he’s a terrible idea for any woman. | |
| Our Hero, Cadet | Kam Smith | Cadet, a bright-eyed third-grader, dreams of going to space. While being held inside for detention, she is rescued by two people who want to make her dream come true. |
| Petrichor | Audrey Booth, Ren Park | A sweet, faithful Christian finds herself drawn to a new openly lesbian woman in her Bible study, forcing her to either challenge her learned homophobia or risk burying her own hidden identity forever. |
| I Fed My TV | Greir Betts | A man’s old TV demands to be fed. |
| The Ghost of Di An [Zee Ahn] | A legendary tunnel rat in the Vietnam War fights for his life on the surface back home. | |
| Approaching the Book of Odes | Huanzhang Hui | |
| TASTE OF A MEMORY | Michelle Lee Mower | A woman attempts to bake a cake with her mother, who has Alzheimers disease. |
| Vermilion | Emma Ryan Mochetti | Haunted by the memory of his mother’s death and suffocated by his father’s controlling grip, an obsessive painter ventures to the brink of madness in his pursuit of artistic perfection. |
| In the Arms of the Sunset | As the final light fades over the ocean, a man and his dog stand still in time — a story of loyalty, trust, and the unbreakable ties that make us human.In the Arms of the Sunset. | |
| The Cat that Lives in Your Dreams | Seon Shim | Jin Li, an autistic Korean artist, expresses her thoughts through her paintings. When she gives speeches at a talk show, she encounters numerous barriers in communicating through traditional methods. |
| La Pagina Sportiva/The Living Newspaper | Set in a small Italian village during WWII, the story follows a group of children who use their local soccer games and a creative “living newspaper” performance to secretly gather and transmit intelligence about German operations to the Allies. | |
| the ghoul next door | Gabriela | With eyes and thighs that hypnotize, with lips that twist truths into lies, she scrambles the brains of nice guys to steal their door codes and to snatch their souls. |
| God Is Coming | A groundbreaking and pioneering epic with God as the central protagonist, spanning both the divine realm and Earth, where His emotional life becomes inseparably bound to humanity’s fate. | |
| Desperate Covenant | A successful lawyer sells his soul to a devil. | |
| Lost Youth | Jian Cao | Xiaoguang, a left-behind teenager in rural China, has been bullied by his classmates for a long time, which has led to his cowardly character. |
| Unacceptable | A gay solicitor in !950s Australia faces difficult career decisions as his personal life conflicts with his legal career and an anti-homosexual criminal code. | |
| Alters | High-concept geo-thriller with a female DIA lead and a timely bioweapon hook (CRISPR). | |
| THE MISSING TREE | As the true meaning of Christmas fades into the background for many, Sarah Perez and her 15-year-old daughter, Ivory, are grappling with a devastating reality: their husband and father has gone missing in action overseas—and may never return. | |
Program
Friday, November 28th, 2025 Horror and Sci Fi
“Hitori (Alone)” Horror Dir. Jonas Luciano Huerta NM.
A spirit possession game gone wrong.
“VitaCamp” Sci Fi Dir. Jeffrey Chin CA.
Summer camp kids must fight for their humanity.
“JeJouissante Moi Plus”(I love you..me neither) Sci Fi Dir. Flaneuse du Mal London
Non human intelligence contemplates the moment of it’s freedom.
“FOMO/Armageddon Sci Fi Dir. Michael Niels Kunov Denmark
William has always put his sister first, except for today.
“The Touch Was Gone” Horror Dir. Alexander Negrete AZ.
A family gathers for a celebration, but something is horribly wrong.
“A Voice in the Mist” Animation Dir. Maria Christina Sanchez de toca Gomez, Sara Ru Martin Spain
A Grandmother must protect her granddaughter from the same strange circumstances that took her daughter.
“ParaSomina” Horror Dir. Daniel Noblom Spain
A Man has hallucinations due to lack of sleep.
“The Clayman” Horror Dir. Bryan Wesley Lewandowski KS.
A Struggling artist sculpts a head of clay that may be alive.
“The Lost Echo” Animation Dir. Andrew Cyr-Marcoux Canada
A lonely young woman battles the cycle of hatred and confusion.
“The Newlyweds:Blood at the Altar Horror Dir. Lucien Christian Adderley, Richard Wilson GA.
The Bride and Groom have their new marriage tested at the wedding reception.
“The Trunk” Horror Dir. Craig Blair U.S.
It’s 1978 and best friends Mitchell and Steve have trapped something in the trunk.
“Find Me” Horror Dir. Molly Lin NY.
A young woman suffers from facial dysmorphia.
“Freed by Imagination” Sci Fi Dir. Adolpho Navarro AZ.
After the world has been hacked by an unknown threat, a father and his daughter have to find a way to survive.
“The Night They Came Back” Horror Dir. Donovan Smith AZ.
A Non-Binary 1978 Halloween Slasher parody fan film.
BREAK
“Left Out” Horror Dir. Alexander Hall U.S.
Everyone in the group will pay, because she was left out.
” I’m Here, I’m Not Human ” Sci Fi Dir. Flanuese dul Mal London
Non human explores benign customs.
“Stuffed” Horror Dir. Ashley Lynn Court, Danielle Norris AZ.
Amy learns something new about her estranged father.
“Chompy’s Burgers” Horror Dir. The Farrington Brothers UT.
Chompy, the restaurant’s mascot, wants you to finish your food.
“A Moment” Sci Fi Dir. Adam Daniel Australia
A man and a woman and a mysterious Sundial necklace.
“Pocket Princess” Stopmotion Dir. Olivia Loccisano Canada
A young girl must participate in dangerous tasks to complete her doll collection.
“Sous Vide” Horror Dir. Luke and Martha Louise Van Garza TX.
A new bride must decide if she can follow through with the time honored ritual of her new husband’s family.
“Killergotchi” Horror Dir. Carlos Cocos Aroca Spain.
Taking care of a virtual baby is a nightmare.
“D3STRO” Horror Dir. Joshua Torreavalle Velazquez Mexico
They love each other enough to share their flesh.
“Chimp” Horror Dir. Tristan Seever AZ.
A haunted woman must decide if she wants to live.
“New and Improved with Fiber’ Horror Dir. Foster Vernon U.S.
It was late and he was hungry.
“Cooks; Cookies, Kebab, Ribeye Horror Dir. David Lee Hess TX. A suite of cooking clips.
Saturday, November 29th, 2025 Drama and Comedy
“Who is Stacy Anderson?” Documentary Dir. Karan “K” Goria
We get to meet Stacy Anderson, owner of Let it Roll Entertainment Center.
“Personal FX” Drama Dir. Chris Anthony Luciano U.S.
Artist searches for a perfect scream.
“Doomers” Comedy Dir. Janina Rook Germany
It’s too hot to do anything. Comedy about the summer of doom and gloom.
“Seeds of Change” Animation Dir. Brian O’Connor AZ.
A talking pumpkin shares wisdom with a squirrel.
“Brush Me” Stop Motion Dir. Nikolaus Jantsch Austria
Toothbrushes are provocative and playful. You will never brush your teeth the same way again.
“Caleb” Drama Dir. Bill Koning U.S.
Caleb has violent tendencies, but he’s mostly harmless.
“Wolf Puppy” Animation Dir. Sam Osborn U.S.
A man who identifies as a lone wolf, walks the forest hoping to find himself.
“Night Shift Solutions” Comedy Dir. Jeff Lane AZ. All Vald Wallachia wanted was immortality.
“Heard” Documentary Dir. Gia Garcia AZ.
A documentary about Phoenix based chef Reece Robbins.
“Shopping Made Easy” Comedy Dir. Gary Taylor AZ.
An alcoholic shopping host derails a handbag sales party on live television.
“The Inbetween” Drama Dir. Theo Weierstall AZ.
Stuck in the land between life and death, Ray must solve the mystery of his missing sister , before it’s too late to wake up.
“Invasion of the Space Vixen” Comedy Dir. Kimber Leigh, Klor Rowland AZ
One intergalactic comforter. Three oddballs. Zero chance of fitting in.
“Encuentro Americano” Drama Dir. E.T. Vazquez CA.
Strangers collide over greasy breakfasts, as the world changes.
“Hitman Ex” Drama Dir. Jamon Holmes CA.
A notorious hitman finds out that his next target is someone he knows.
“Petey and Pile” Animation Dir. Brian Ress, Dion Mastrangelo AZ.
Funky Bronco Productions , mixed bag of anthology stories.
“Bebo was Here” Comedy Dir. Freddy Caro AZ.
When Bebo is wronged, his family pulls together to make it right.
“Don’t feel so Bad, it’s why you’re Here” Animation Dir. Matthew Hotez AZ.
Experimental film about what it means to push through hardships and continue to be creative.
“Safe Spaces” Documentary Dir. Keenan Murray AZ.
Documentary about the Arizona women’s climbing coalition.
“Hopeless” Comedy Dir. Shon Majo AZ.
Sometimes when it seems hopeless , it is.
“Silent Control” Drama Dir. Indra Warikoo AZ.
Suffering from anxiety, a woman turns to Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) for help.
“To Love a Monster” Comedy Dir. Joey Carrier CA.
A monster on his first date ever, worries that he will have to change to become lovable.
“The Independent” Comedy Dir. John Kestner AZ.
After the 2024 election, one man straddles America’s greatest divide.
“Mourning Glory” Drama Dir. Livi DarConte AZ.
Heartbreaking news triggers a surreal journey through the five stages of grief for one woman.
“Shoot it Out” Comedy Dir. Donovan Smith AZ.
Two women battle it out over who gets to watch what, on the television.
“2 Fast 2 Felicia; Curse of the La LLorona” Dir. Adolpho Navarro AZ.
Felicia and her friends run into the legendary weeping women.
“In the Life of an Independent Film Producer” Comedy Dir. Allen Valor AZ.
A darkly humorous filled look at a guy who can’t seem to catch a break.
“Ms. Rossi” Comedy Dir. Pat Battistini. CA.
On her way to a business meeting , Ms. Rossi takes an interesting detour.
“The Legend of William Boucher” AI Drama Dir. Kedra Curry
A Tale of Vengeance.
“The Open Door” Drama Dir. Dean Ronalds U.S.
Short film based on the story ” The Open Window” by H.H. Munro
Sunday, November 30th, 2025 International Shorts
“Paint” Drama Dir. Mora Carew CA.
An artist sacrifices his mental health for success.
“A Night of Resolutions” Drama Dir. Dylan Gouze, Writer Raja Hanna Canada
A Mothers journey through the stages of betrayal and grief.
“Cat and Fish” Animation Dir. Nilram Ranjar Iran
Opposites can become friends.
“Amira” Sci Fi Dir. Javier Yanez Sanz Spain
In the 18th century, there’s a music school that was always dark.
“Dance!” Horror Dir. Poorya Dehghan Iran
A military man is confronted by ghosts of the war.
“Sweetheart (Bonita)” Thriller Dir. Eva Santana, Albert Carbo Spain
A Teacher has a confrontation with a student.
“You can do it alone(Puedes tu’ Solito)”Comedy Dir. Silvia Pradas Spain
It’s Pablos first time peeing in a public restroom.
“Selfie” Drama Dir. Giulio Manicardi Italy
A Shy and insecure girl becomes a social media star, but the noriety comes with a price.
“Dark Orange” Animation Dir. Zahra Azadpour Iran
A couple in a one sided emotionless relationship, must decide if they want to stay together.
“Rage” Horror Dir. Henri Genty France
A Husband looks for his missing wife in a winter white out.
“The Scapegoat” Drama Dir. Ali Fard Iran
Mother is falsely accused of a crime.
“Decisions in the Deep” Dir. Raki Ralko
An injured sailor is trapped inside of a stranded submarine.
“Tito” Drama Dir. Javier Celay Spain
Tito, who suffers from mental illness, hasn’t paid the rent.
“Paradise Buffet” Animation Dir. Santi Amezqueta, Hector Zafra Spain
Gluttony explored
“La Petite Mort” Drama Dir. Tommaso Bolonga, Alberto Braga Italy
Some believe that ‘the little death’ is what we experience at the moment of pleasure.
“Bike Maniac” Drama Dir. Arturo Atal, Juan Carrascal Spain Avid bicyclist finds trouble on the trail.
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