In partnership Nitehawk Cinema, The Gotham is proud to present its second annual Shorts-to-Features Showcase. Eighteen short films will be shown in their entirety for Film Lovers, Filmmakers and Industry. The slate includes work from actress Margaret Cho producing Seoul Switch, Emily McCann Lesser (How to Shoot a Ghost) presenting If I Die in America, Tory Lenosky (Resurrection) presenting In The Flesh (Project Market Title:V is for Victoria), and the 2024 Sundance winner The Masterpiece (Project Market Title: The Third Kind) by director Àlex Lora.

Each of the blocks will be followed by a brief Q&A with the filmmakers

Loser, Drama  – 11 mins
Loser follows 22 year-old Alice, who works at a frozen yogurt shop, on what turns out to be an unforgettable day of her life.

Places I’ve Called My Own, Family Drama – 29 mins
A portrait of a queer woman who returns home to Mumbai, from the US, for her father’s funeral.

The Other Side (Project Market Title: Lost Boys), Based on a True Story – 17 mins
Set against the Ethiopian abandoned children crisis, two orphan brothers are faced with the reality of never being adopted. Inspired by a true story.

In The Flesh (Project Market Title: V is for Victoria), Dramatic Thriller – 15 mins
The perfect housewife has a secret: She’s obsessed with expensive meat, and the local butcher who knows how to handle it. When her dream of a chance encounter with the butcher comes true, the cracks in her home life are exposed.

The Ballad of Tita and the Machines, Sci-Fi – 15 mins
When Tita, an elderly fieldworker, reluctantly hires an AI humanoid to fill in for her picking strawberries, she attracts the engineers’ attention because their humanoids cannot do her back-breaking work.

Rainbow Girls, Drama – 16 mins
As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young black trans women decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an audacious heist targeting the city’s most exclusive luxury brands.