The Films

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It's all about the films.

Below you will find our official list of current selections followed by winning film projects and official selections from our past seasons. Although most films are still in festival-only or limited distribution mode, several past winners are available for public viewing, please scan the links below for more information.

SEASON 4 FILMS

Call For Entries = OPEN

Bi-Monthly Summer Winners:

FULL ANNOUNCEMENT JULY 20th, 2026

5 projects chosen as OFFICIAL SELECTIONS for our annual in-person festival event

All entries remain eligible until final notification date: January 25th, 2027

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PAIFF FILM ARCHIVE A-Z

Title	Director	Country/Countries	Film Type	Runtime Minutes	PAIFF Season	PAIFF Awards...
Old Death	Kyle Garrett	United States	Music Video	7	Season 1 (2024)
Orange Cove	John Lockmer	United States	Short	12	Season 3 (2026)
Out of the Picture	Mary Louise Schumacher	United States	Documentary,Feature	98	Season 2 (2025)
Over the Moon: My Adventures Dealing with Cults	Michael A Smith, Ted E Haynes	United States	Documentary	65	Season 3 (2026)
Parasomnia	Daniel Noblom Gibert	Spain	Narrative Short		PAIFF Season 3 (2026)	Official Selection
PeriPerseu	Stella Brajterman	Brazil	Experimental	5	Season 3 (2026)
Piggy Duster	Jesse Stewart	United States	Feature	91	Season 3 (2026)	BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM,BEST VISIONARY DIRECTOR,BEST EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Planet of Rust	George Merabishvili	Cyprus	Short		Season 1 (2024)
Poyyamozhi	Sudhi Anna	India	Feature	99	Season 2 (2025)
Prayer of the Sea	Martin Gerigk	Germany	Animation,Experimental,Short,Other	7	Season 3 (2026)
Public Phone	Mois Roditi Haydenblit	Mexico	Feature		Season 3 (2026)
Quarantine		Iran	Narrative Short	20	Season 2 (2025)
R.d.Cane...'52 Thursdays'	R.d Cane	Canada	Documentary,Experimental,Music Video,Other	24	Season 1 (2024)
Rag Dolls	Amy Adler	Mexico,United States	Documentary,Short	12	Season 3 (2026)
Reflection short film	Maedeh Abdi	Iran	Feature,Short,Student,Television,Other	4	Season 2 (2025)
Return of the Black Madonna	KERRA BOLTON	United States	Documentary,Short	15	Season 2 (2025)
Robofauna	Gerardo Escudero Samara	Panama	Experimental,Short,Other	4	Season 2 (2025)
Roswell Delirium	Richard Bakewell	United States	Feature	110	Season 1 (2024)	BEST FEATURE FILM,BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR,BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY,BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - FEATURE,BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sahara - End Of Trip	Antonio Rodríguez Cabal	Spain	Feature	129	Season 2 (2025)
Sargassum	Claude Barnes	Canada	Documentary	90	Season 3 (2026)	BEST ENVIRONMENTAL FILM
Saving Walden's World	James S Merkel, Deborah Shaffer	United States	Documentary	89	Season 1 (2024)
Searching For That Sea	Xavier Guàrdia	Spain	Music Video	4	Season 3 (2026)
Shield. The living wall of the Caribbean	Mario Cuesta Hernando	Spain	Documentary,Feature	80	Season 3 (2026)
Shot!		Mexico	Lyrics Only	4	Season 1 (2024)
Shrouded Destiny: A Star Wars Long Tale - Part 1 of 3	Shahbaz Sarwar	Denmark	Short	30	Season 2 (2025)
Sitting in the Fire	ALEC GOLDBERG, BOSON WANG	United States	Documentary,Feature		Season 1 (2024)
Small Things	Angela Andronache	United States	Short	12	Season 2 (2025)
Snakes & Ladders		Iran	Short,Student	10	Season 2 (2025)
Somber Tides	Chantal Caron	Canada	Documentary,Experimental,Short	12	Season 3 (2026)
Some Kind of Justice	Brian Jervay	United States	Feature	109	Season 2 (2025)
Somewhere Confidential	Casey Siegel	United States	Feature	105	Season 2 (2025)
Soraya	Maryam Rahimi	Iran	Short		Season 1 (2024)
Spectacles (Misguided Perceptual Realism Of True Images)	Erfan Vahidi	Iran	Experimental,Short,Other		Season 3 (2026)
Spoken For-The Movie	Jean-Yves "Jeeve" Ducornet	United States	Animation,Experimental,Feature,Music Video,Other	56	Season 3 (2026)
Spooky Crew	Erin Broussard	United States	Short		Season 1 (2024)
Suerte de Matar (The Act of Death)	Diego Rocha	United States	Short	16	Season 2 (2025)
THE Amazing Kitsuverse	Leo Neumann	Germany	Animation,Short,Student	6	Season 3 (2026)
Take your space	Karolína Alvarez	Czechia	Documentary	77	Season 1 (2024)
The Abyss	Andres Aloi	Argentina	Experimental,Short,Web / New Media	10	Season 2 (2025)
The Ale	Adrian Eppel	Australia	Experimental,Short	2	Season 3 (2026)
The Annoyed	Mehdi Fard Ghaderi	Iran	Feature	85	Season 1 (2024)
The Bad Son	Ghatfan Ghanoom	Syrian Arab Republic	Documentary		Season 2 (2025)
The Brattt	Valeriy Pereverzev	Russian Federation	Feature	116	Season 2 (2025)
The Color Of Exile	AZLARABE ALAOUI	Côte d'Ivoire,France,Morocco	Feature	90	Season 3 (2026)
The Days of Knight: Chapter 3	John P Martinez	United States	Short		Season 2 (2025)
The Dog, my father and us.	Pablo Arturo Suárez	Ecuador	Feature	90	Season 3 (2026)
The Elephants of Avalon Beach	Jae Morrison	Australia	Documentary,Experimental,Music Video,Short	4	Season 2 (2025)
The End was just The Beginning	Antonio Aleixo	Portugal	Short	17	Season 2 (2025)
The Escence of the Guaguancó	Jairo Valeria Mosqueira	Belgium	Music Video	11	Season 1 (2024)
The Family Photo	John Norris Ray, Maria Victoria Sanchez	United States	Animation	9	Season 3 (2026)
The Food That Fuels	Life's Interpretaion, Ed Porter	United States	Documentary,Short	25	Season 2 (2025)
The Fries Rebellion		United States	Documentary,Short		Season 2 (2025)
The Future with Us		China	Experimental,Short,Other	2	Season 3 (2026)
The Girl Who Faded Away	Brent Heise	United States	Music Video,Short	6	Season 1 (2024)
The Girl from the wood	Alexander Mulumbator Ovsyankin	Russian Federation	Animation,Experimental,Short,Web / New Media	3	Season 2 (2025)
The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John Murry	Sarah Share	Ireland	Documentary	89	Season 2 (2025)
The Last Day Of All	Bryan Muñoz Caballero	Mexico	Narrative Short	14	PAIFF Season 4 (2027)	Official Selection
The Last Gunfight... yet!	Pablo Tréhin-Marçot	France	Animation,Short	3	Season 2 (2025)
The Life of DAE-VEE Six - a seven sigma space story	JD McWilliams	United States	Short	12	Season 3 (2026)
The Little Ancestor	Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur	Canada	Animation,Documentary,Short	11	Season 3 (2026)
The Little Things That Run The World	Doug Hawes-Davis	United States	Documentary,Feature,Other	105	Season 3 (2026)
The Magician	Mathieu Gauvreau	Canada	Short,Student	18	Season 3 (2026)
The Michoacan File	Bernardo Arsuaga	Mexico	Documentary	91	Season 2 (2025)
The Multidimensionals: Star Envoy	Ewa Pirog-Rojas	Poland,United States	Feature,Television,Other		Season 3 (2026)
The Mythological Serpent	Miguel Gleason	Mexico	Animation,Short	2	Season 3 (2026)
The Nightmare of the Running Ones	Ivan Kashlakov	Bulgaria	Animation,Experimental,Short	2	Season 2 (2025)
The Ninth Order	Nick John A'Hern	Australia	Feature	112	Season 2 (2025)
The Power of One	Alex Valdez, Pablo De la Fuente	Colombia,United States	Documentary,Feature	54	Season 2 (2025)
The Power of One (Trailer)	Alex Valdez	United States	Documentary	3	Season 1 (2024)
The Premiere	Jon Silver	United States	Feature	81	Season 2 (2025)
The Reach	Luca Caserta	Italy	Short	28	Season 3 (2026)
The Reencounter. 500 years Moctezuma and Cortés	Miguel Gleason	Mexico	Documentary	100	Season 3 (2026)
The Rivals	Fraser James MacLeod	Sweden	Short	25	Season 3 (2026)
The Series 10K	Dan Hertzog	United States	Animation	6	Season 3 (2026)
The Shell	Marco Santos	Portugal	Short,Student	6	Season 3 (2026)
The Silver Lining	Mikey Altoft	United Kingdom	Short	25	Season 2 (2025)
The Space Between Attack and Decay	Jessica Kourkounis	United States	Experimental,Short	29	Season 3 (2026)
The Story of a Colorful Day	Mahmood Arib	Iran	Experimental,Short	11	Season 2 (2025)
The Train & the Peninsula	Sky Richards, Andreas Kruger Foncerrada	Mexico	Documentary,Feature	88	Season 1 (2024)
The Uncuttable	Aksath	China	Animation	7	PAIFF Season 4 (2027)	Official Selection
The Unfixing	Nicole Betancourt	Spain,United States	Documentary	87	Season 3 (2026)
The Uvalde Love Project	Dacia Saenz	United States	Documentary,Experimental,Short,Web / New Media	8	Season 2 (2025)
The volcano and the baby	Danielle Jaeggi	Switzerland	Short		Season 1 (2024)
They Don't Now Im Coming	Jonathan Morales Searles	Not Specified	Music Video		Season 1 (2024)
This is how the Mexican Revolution began	Nurh Elizabeth Trejo Aguilar	Mexico	Documentary,Student	5	Season 3 (2026)
To Fly	Mohsen Khademi	Iran	Short	15	Season 3 (2026)
Under Cover	Guillaume Arnoulet	New Zealand	Short		Season 1 (2024)
Underneath	Matthew James Bissett-Johnson	Australia	Animation,Experimental	2	Season 3 (2026)
Unspoken	MACIEJ ADAMEK	Poland	Documentary	52	Season 2 (2025)
Unwind	Jake Sauve	Canada	Music Video		Season 1 (2024)
Vance and the Afterlife	Sam Kimbrell	United States	Short		Season 1 (2024)
Vas Mar	Nima Tabandeh	Iran	Short	19	Season 3 (2026)
Vortex	Chris Tangey	Australia	Documentary,Music Video,Short		Season 1 (2024)
Welcome to Vegas	Hae Sun Hong	United States	Feature	82	Season 3 (2026)
What's the Deal	Constanza E. Godoy, Brett W. Vance	United States	Music Video	3	PAIFF Season 1 (2024)
Who is God?	Oscar Adan Lopez Parres	Mexico	Animation,Experimental,Music Video,Short,Other		Season 1 (2024)
Wild Fire	GuoKai	China	Narrative Short	20	PAIFF Season 4 (2027)	Official Selection
Xpendable	Walter Ernest Haussner	United States	Short	30	Season 3 (2026)
You Think Although You Are Not	SALAHEDDIN NOORI	Iran	Short		Season 1 (2024)
the transience	ipek shahbazi, ario motevaghe	Iran	Short		Season 1 (2024)

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