Soo Film Festival 2026

SFF 2026: Block 7-Student Shorts

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Screening: Saturday, Sep 19, 10:30am at LSSU Arts Center (Block 7)

Love's Lost is Found: A Case Flipowitz Mystery

Director: Eve Dowding
Narrative Short

When tasked with finding her good friend's lost love, Detective Case Flipowitz discovers that one's lost love is not always what it appears.

The Understanding of Me

Director: Katy Coakley
Documentary Short

Theresa Marie Montiel, a successful graphic designer better known as Nacho, spends most of her time sketching and designing. The piece that sticks out to her most is "The One Little Indian." In this documentary short, Nacho explores her mixed race heritage through her personal designs and how racial representation is important in the art industry.

Running

Director: Alyssa Marx
Music Video

Music video for the Morbidly Obese Seal song “Running.”

Sleepless Night

Director: Rory Brown
Animation

After a long night gaming, the humanoid jellyfish, Ari, tries to find creative ways to get to sleep.

29 Men and God

Director: John Burns
Documentary Short

Author John U. Bacon discusses his new book on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

A Grieving Heart

Director: Wendy Cong Zhao
Animation

An immigrant woman examines her past in the wake of her American ex-boyfriend's death. The film explores how love and loss impact the ways she confronts her identity, memories, insecurities, and regrets.

Normal

Director: Keall Emmers
Documentary Short

This film is a short reflexive documentary about growing up with divorced parents and living between two homes. Using personal narration, archival footage, and interviews with my parents, the film reflects on how something that seems difficult or overwhelming to others became my everyday reality, and how hearing their perspectives changed the way I understand my own childhood.

F*** Your Policy

Director: TK James
Documentary Short

After an executive order renouncing the existence of trans and non-binary people, F*** Your Policy explores the experience of existing outside the gender binary in the current political climate.

The Message

Director: Faith Kenya Geovana Williams
Narrative Short

Connor texts his crush while being a nervous wreck the entire time.

Why Native Plants?

Directors: Cecelia Gould, Olivia Lee, Samantha Sanday
Documentary Short

Native plants improve outcomes for the environment, but are increasingly eliminated in favor of more typical garden plants. Learn how to make an impact on your local environment, and potentially yourself, by planting native species.

The Climb

Directors: James Roberts, Werner Andrews
Narrative Short

After slaying a deer, a hunter secluded in frozen, silent wilderness, is driven to insanity by the traumatic manifestations of his dead little brother.

WealthWashed

Directors: Meg Vandermark, Anna Barnes
Documentary Short

As Michigan is increasingly branded a climate haven, its most abundant resource, water, reveals deep tensions between beauty, exploitation, and inequality, challenging the myth of abundance in a changing climate.

Tomato Soup

Director: Brendan Michael Conant
Narrative Short

Is one night enough to say goodbye? Dodd, a freshly signed baseball player struggles to say goodbye to his hometown, desperate for a reason to stay.


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