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.