31ST ANNUAL CUCALORUS FILM FESTIVAL
presents
Lantern Fly Shorts
SUN · NOVEMBER 23 · 2025 · 10:45 AM · THALIAN BLACK
Lantern Fly Shorts
Friday / 7:00 PM / Jengo’s Playhouse
Sunday / 10:45 AM / Thalian Black
89 minutes
From reanimated fathers and ghostly reckonings to ancestral magic and liminal love, each story pulses with mystery and heart. Expect the uncanny to meet the deeply emotional in tales that blur the line between life, death, and everything in between.
ARROW
Director: Meg Lansaw / 5:46
Producer: Meg Lansaw
A feral dog survives off rubbish in the local landfill while across town, a bereaved family of dolls contemplate adoption again after reading about a pet fair in the newspaper. Might they be a perfect match?
Thin Places
Director: Brit Hensel / 17:00
Producers: Blake Brown, Sterlin Harjo, Tracy Rector, Heather Rae, Tiffany Bruner, Taylor Hensel
The unique connection of two sisters as they navigate the liminal space of this world and the next.
Thomasville
Director: Alex Woodruff / 13:07
Producers: Barry Booth, Nichlos Incardone, Abijeet Achar, Jake Casey, Kiah Alexandria Clingman, Landon Kovalick, Ellis Jamal Sutton, Alex Woodruff
Trapped in a rainswept car, a young man and his ailing father confront their fractured history before it's too late.
Haint
Director: Jahmil Eady / 15:15
Producers: Selena Leoni, Tara Austin, Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro
When gentrifiers suddenly begin dying mysteriously, a Gullah Geechee handywoman who recently lost her home, must decide whether to use her ancestral knowledge to save them or leave the newcomers to their fate.
Long's Lost Lost & Mini Mart
Director: Julian Doan / 17:53
Producers: Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro, Alex Nystrom, Jenni Trang Lê
In the seedy back halls of a Little Saigon convenience store, a young customer seeking closure reanimates his dead father for one last conversation.
As Told By a Corpse
Director: Yace Sula / 5:05
Producer: Yace Sula
At a traditional naming ceremony, family members pray and swoon over the birth of an alleged baby girl, kicking off the demise of an entity resistant to the identity imposed upon them.
Missing Rhythms
Director: Regina Hoyles / 15:25
Producers: Jordan Calloway, Couper Samuelson, Malcolm Barrett, Julie Bersani, Toni Adeyemi, Regina Hoyles
In a mysterious insane asylum full of missing Black women from all over the country, a woman must use rhythm to remember her true identity.
