Check out the 2026 cohort shorts from the students of Ball State University&#39;s Radiance Cinema!

Spotlight: Ball State University Radiance Cinema

Check out the 2026 cohort shorts from the students of Ball State University's Radiance Cinema!

After the death of her grandmother, a struggling 20-year-old art student pours her grief into a memorial piece, uncovering buried emotions and a deepening connection with a friend along the way. Public ContactRadiance CinemaRadiance@bsu.edu

Passing Portrait

After the death of her grandmother, a struggling 20-year-old art student pours her grief into a memorial piece, uncovering buried emotions and a deepening connection with a friend along the way.

Roommates Nathan and Will welcome their neighbors Frank and Mindy with an invite to dinner. As dinner looms, Frank and Mindy's religious beliefs become clear, and as they ignore Nathan's transgender status, he must decide how to stand up for himself. Public ContactRadiance CinemaRadiance@bsu.edu

Frightening/Disturbing Images, Strong Language/Profanity, Mature Themes

English

A Friendly Invitation

Roommates Nathan and Will welcome their neighbors Frank and Mindy with an invite to dinner. As dinner looms, Frank and Mindy's religious beliefs become clear, and as they ignore Nathan's transgender status, he must decide how to stand up for himself.

When an invisible demon violently possesses his radio co-host, a passive college student is forced into a live broadcast. Trapped in the booth, he must choose between spreading the entity's curse or finally finding his own voice. Public ContactRadiance Cinema BSURadiance@bsu.edu

Blood/Gore, Frightening/Disturbing Images, Violence, Strong Language/Profanity

PopoBawa

When an invisible demon violently possesses his radio co-host, a passive college student is forced into a live broadcast. Trapped in the booth, he must choose between spreading the entity's curse or finally finding his own voice.

Four college students get into a car crash on the way to their graduation ceremony, and the aftermath forces them to finally be honest with each other about what comes next. Public ContactRadiance Cinema BSUradiance@bsu.edu

Blood/Gore, Strobe Effect/Flashing Lights, Strong Language/Profanity

7:42

Four college students get into a car crash on the way to their graduation ceremony, and the aftermath forces them to finally be honest with each other about what comes next.

Brian, a newly married outsider in a religious extremist family, is torn between faith and morality when the Wards kidnap a lesbian couple, Kennedy and Mia, determined to save them at any cost. Public ContactRadiance CinemaRadiance@bsu.edu

Blood/Gore, Frightening/Disturbing Images, Gun/Armed Violence, Mature Themes, Strong Language/Profanity, Violence

The Fire We Choose

Brian, a newly married outsider in a religious extremist family, is torn between faith and morality when the Wards kidnap a lesbian couple, Kennedy and Mia, determined to save them at any cost.

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