2026 selected works
Congratulations to the filmmakers and artists whose works were accepted to the 2026 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!
(MOURNING) AFFIRMATIONS by Spyros Patsouras
10 52 by Amirmohammad Zand
35,567 Yup'ik Stories by Magnus Shipe
a decade by Wrik Mead
A Giant of Limitless Power at Man's Command by Shelby Blair
A Life Half-Lived by Rob Munday
A video about red balloons by Walter Smits
Algorithmic Nudes Grapple with Entropy by David R Witzling
All of This Must Be Paid For by Gabi Rudin
Alpine Tundra by Kathleen Rugh
American Pizza: A 48 Hour Film Project by Will Radan
amphibolos lithos by Valery Grysha
Black Saturday! by Alexander Colt Young
Bug by Pat O'Connor
Buses don't stop here anymore by Penny McCann
But...You're A Dolphin! by Sarah Turner
Caffeine Phosphene Reverie by Alanna Floreck
Cliffs & Beyond by Ada Chen
Closure by Blake Riesenfeld
CosmonautOpReMix by Timothy James Nohe
Dizzy Cavalry by Patrick Doyon
Dollhouse Elephant by Jenny Jokela
Don't Cry For Me All You Drag Queens by Kristal Sotomayor
Doomstroll by Taylor James Arnett
Doxology for Ella May Wiggins by Jonathan Furnell, Rachel Pittman
empty nester by Alexandra Bennett
En su sombra fértil by Andrés Dávila
Fačuk by Maida Srabovic
Fallen by Angela Ruohan Yan
Five Stars by Trinity Love Rollins
Fjord Time by Jonathan Onsuwan Johnson and Carleen Maur
Flash Forward by Madison LaVigne
Flow of Being by Helen Unt
Forever Fetch by Evangeline Van Meter
fracture summer by Kym McDaniel
Fumble by Mahsa Talebiani
Gamelan Evolution by Juan Vito Timothy Reyner
giiwe πρό bizhiw / bizhiw πρό giiwe by mystery byrd
Going Home by Hunter Reardon, Peter Berinato
Hiding Places by Magdalena Bermudez
How Now, House? by Tess Martin
HR & B by Ron Scott Jr.
Hunger by Taylor Bellah
Hurricane Season by Michelle Trujillo
I Exist by Martin Del Carpio
Île tête nue by Aitor Ibáñez
Interview by Michael Mersereau
Je jouissante... moi non plus by Flâneuse du Mal
Katelin Describes a Crisis by Stephen Wardell
Las Animas by Matt Feldman
Like Friend, Like Deer by Malek Eghbali
Macabre by Jonah Manibusan
Match Dance by John Akre
Memories of the Little Pond by Yeon Choi
Mephisto by Abhigyan Ravichandran
Midst the Sky by Kiley Brandt
Miracles Happen Everyday by Sloane Castille Ren
Mysterious Purple House by Joshua Yates
Nabt Al-Ard نبت الأرض by Mohammed hamed salama
Naya Sahasrabhuja Avalokiteshvara 新千手觀世音菩薩 by Shon Kim
Noli me tangere by Mahda Purmehdi
Normal Litio by Massimiliano Marianni
Ohio River Bridge Crossing by Braden T. Burnside
On Camera by Jackie Mishol
Out of Nowhere by Billy Palumbo
Pandora's Greenhouse by Adrian Manuel Pijoan
PAPA by Florias Welch Gallay
Patch by Meg Cook
Petty People by Yang Yi
Picture Me Better (10 Minute Cut) by Xavier Alexander
Policed Mind by Laury Hooghuis
Pongo, Spike and Tyke by Meysam Shamsi
Primetime Mr. President by Saif Alsaegh
Project Selkie by Ryleigh Moule
Prophecy by Sol Kim
Purgatorio by Auden Lincoln-Vogel, Stephanie Miracle and Philip Rabalais
Reading The Wound by Erich Barganier
Revenge of the Killer Rubber Chickens by Tristan J Cook
Revolution by Xinti Lim
Rotten by Marilyn Bell
Screen Memory by Maggie Murphy
Second Hand Ghouls by PJ Gaynard
seen, stored and remembered by Tracy Miller-Robbins
Serenity by Snow Chen
Service Bus by Elmer Mikael Lødemel
Snow Day by Olivia Nestor
St. Jude's Reply by David Golden
Sulfur by Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes
Surface Recordings: Palo Duro Red / Ogallala Unfiltered by Andrew Weathers
Tarfu Bravo Zulu by Jonathan Kiefer
Tehran 615 by Hamidreza Nassiri
The Box by Caroline Rumley
The Bunny by Isaiah Supadi, Oscar Smith
The Gravedigger's Spy, a performance art movie by Sylvia Toy St. Louis
The Red Thread by Peyton Rhian Fitz
The Story of The Cricket Queen by Natalie Peracchio
Vendetta by Dylan Anglin
Voices of the mountains by Laboratory for visual storytelling
Voyeur by Maryam Hashempour
Where the Rhododendron Grow by Erin Draxler
WHY-EEELA by Ian Gibbins
You Do Not Exist by Dwayne LeBlanc
You've Got a Mothman in Me by Akira Jakkson
Organized by the Digital Art & Animation area in the WVU School of Art and Design and founded in 2010, the WVMSFF has been a hub for independent and experimental filmmakers worldwide, bringing diverse cultural and artistic perspectives to West Virginia and the Appalachian region.