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These nine short films won awards at the 2025 Hobnobben Film Festival.

Best Student film: Ash Wednesday

Best First-Time Filmmaker: The Tale of Mari

Jen Lynn Award, which honors LGBTQIA+ representation in film: Lucia & Nicole

Best Comedy: Lucia and Nicole

Jen Lynn Award, which honors LGBTQIA+ representation in film: I don’t know if I’ll Have to Say Everything Again

Best Indiana Reel: Sometimes I imagine Your Funeral

Best Animated Films: Dear Child II, K’uchu: A childhood place

Best Fiction Short: Nettle

When queer Catholic schoolgirl Bridget gets her period during Ash Wednesday Mass, she embarks on an odyssey with best friend Erin to find a tampon and make it back in time to get their ashes - or else they're suspended.

Year
2024
Runtime
17 minutes
Language
English
Country
United States
Genre
Comedy, Romance, Coming Of Age, Student
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Director
Grace O'Brien
Screenwriter
Grace O'Brien
Producer
Zoe Moore
Cast
Leah Del Rosario, Maia Sanaa, Emma Weller
Cinematographer
Melanie Menkiti
Editor
Emma Griffith

9 films in package

Ash Wednesday

The Tale of Mari

Mari, an elderly Japanese woman, recounts her experiences growing up in Okinawa, moving to America, and attempting to become a newspaper cartoonist.

Lucia & Nicole

On the cusp of adulthood Lucia finds her childhood friend Nicole living on the street. Houseless after coming out, Lucia's mother Ximena invites her into their home.

Grave Expectations

Jacob has kept his childhood trauma a secret from his wife until today, when he surprises her with a nighttime trip through a cemetery to confront the grave of his recently-deceased childhood bully.

I don't know if i'll have to say everything again

Fernando meets his mother weekly at a cafe. Today, he's gonna tell her he's getting married. Ana, who suffers from Alzheimer's, has trouble remembering that her son is gay. Does she really forget, or would she rather not remember?

Sometimes I Imagine Your Funeral

As Max prepares to eulogize his sister Chloe just minutes before her funeral, he wrestles with the anger, frustration, and grief of losing her to an overdose, attempting to understand who Chloe was.

Dear Child II

Written as a letter to a child in Gaza by Pullitzer prize winning author, Chris Hedges, the film takes the audience on a haunting & realistic journey through Gaza today from a child's perspective.

K'uchu: A Childhood Place

Oscar begins to isolate himself in his playful childhood world. His best friend, Jesus, no longer wants to play after falling in love with Betsa, a schoolmate. Caught between leaving childhood behind or continuing to play alone, terrorist violence erupts, forcing Oscar to grow up overnight and abandon his hometown.

Nettle

Some say Jeanne is mad/crazy because she doesn't let boys push her around, which doesn't sit well with everyone. To protect herself, she decides to say stop. From now on, consider yourself warned, don't touch Jeanne, she stings.