Official Selections: LA Indie Film Festival
Congratulations to our accepted filmmakers!
Complete Line-Up Below
Films are listed in alphabetical order, index to the left.
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STUHI
Music Video
USA Premiere
Everyone remembers the hollow left behind by the disappearance of human life. The melancholy—and the need—for everyday urban chaos. The frantic movements, the endless lines, the absurd traffic that, once gone, ended up magnifying an entire chapter of our history.
Director: Chiara Feriani
Producer: Chiara Grandi
Writer: Chiara Feriani
Cinematographer: Gianluca Catania, Federico Vio
Editor: Chiara Feriani, Francesco Loffredo
Winner at: Europe Music Video Award 2026, Indie Short Film Festival 2026, Cine Paris Film Festival 2026, Greece Film Festival 2026, Ponza Film Festival 2026, Monza Film Festival 2026.
Nominee at: New York Film Festival 2026
It was a time when truth shrank into moments of stillness, slipping easily into the possibility of being false. A time when truths—and the debates built around them—had to be kept intact, even when their fragility was obvious.
That same tension lingers in the road lines that open the film: directions without destinations, paths that lead nowhere. It grows stronger in the elegiac soundtrack that frames a vertical cityscape, where oversized statues stand as the only living witnesses of a frozen public space.
Two figures step into this setting. They move forward carrying the weight of uncertainty—born from the emptiness below them and the edges that hold them up.
Against the void, against the illusion, they run, nameless and unseen.
And yet they reach another place, where they finally emerge—descending into the underground of a crowd that seems, somehow, to have been waiting for them…