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by Natalia Keogan in Festivals & Events
on Mar 26, 2026
Filmfort Film Festival, My Dead Dad's Funeral, Public Freakout, Someone to Steal Horses With, The Deliveryboy, There's a Devil Inside Me, Winter After Winter
Filmmaker is happy to continue its annual partnership with the Filmfort Film Festival by exclusively hosting six short films from the 2026 edition, which kicks off today. Occurring simultaneously during the Treefort Music Fest in Boise, Idaho, Filmfort highlights emerging indie fare. On the feature film front, this includes The Scout, directed by Paula González-Nasser—who appeared on our 25 New Faces of Film last year— and Joybubbles, Rachel J. Morrison’s Sundance-premiering doc.
The following shorts will be available to watch on the site through midnight on March 29, when the festival wraps. Find the embedded films and their synopses below.
My Dead Dad’s Funeral
dir. Jamie Manelis
2025, USA, 13 mins
Synopsis: Riley needs to spread her estranged father’s ashes at his childhood home, but her
somber day takes a bizarre turn.
Public Freakout
dir. Julia Bales
2025, USA, 10 mins
Synopsis: A group of strangers argue at a gas station.
Someone to Steal Horses With
dir. Dylan Pailes-Friedman
2025, USA, 10 mins
Synopsis: A rainy morning is interrupted by the radio. A horse’s voice transports the daily commute in Los Santos, San Andreas to a remote broadcasting station in an unspecified location. He’s written a novel reflecting on the past. An ancestral memory. Movement and time become uncertain—we traverse abandoned histories through valleys and train tracks. Among the spoor is a longing for connection, a lost sense of value, a desire to be stolen.
The Deliveryboy
dir. Michael Bernieri
2025, USA, 25 mins
Synopsis: A grieving stoner returns to his suburban Massachusetts hometown to dog-sit, becoming entangled in a cat-and-mouse game with an enigmatic middle school acquaintance.
There’s a Devil Inside Me
dir. Karina Lomelin-Ripper
2026, USA, 15 mins
Synopsis: After a Catholic confirmation class, Teresa, a devilish teen, pretends to be a nun but things go sideways when she’s mistaken for a real one.
Winter After Winter
dir. Brandon Kaufman
2026, Canada, 11 mins
Synopsis: Returning to Toronto after years away, Nell unexpectedly reconnects with Jackie, an old friend, and a day spent together forces them to confront the buried history that still binds them.
Source: filmmakermagazine.com