10/20/2026
Worshippers on opposite sides of a border wall, singing through rusted steel bars. A drunk man at a campfire who really shouldn’t have started whistling. A violinist clearing out a family estate who begins seeing things she can’t explain. A young girl at a winter scout retreat who walks in one person and leaves another.
Shorts Block 6 doesn’t look away from anything.
Sunday, November 8 at 1:00 PM at The Modern. Reserve your seat at lonestarfilmfestival.com.
When heading to the oceanside, one might expect to see surfers, joggers, and sunbathers—but not this. Each Sunday, a quiet yet powerful ritual unfolds as worshippers in Tijuana and San Diego gather on opposite sides of the border wall. Through song, prayer, and fellowship shared across rusty steel bars, an unexpected act of unity, faith, and resistance comes to life.
On what begins as a quiet night at home, four friends are confronted with the news of a devastating act of anti-trans violence. In an instant, their sense of safety is shattered. As shock gives way to grief—and grief to rage—their quiet evening fractures into a shared, unspoken question: what does justice look like when the world refuses to provide it?
Out at a campfire late at night, a man drunkenly stumbles to the edge of the woods to relieve himself. As he does, he starts to absentmindedly whistle. Something in the woods whistles back.
Artist James Magee spent over forty years building installation in the West Texas desert, El Paso. Often working alone or with one assistant, Magee constructed four stone buildings, in the shape of an equidistant cross, containing his large steel-and-glass sculptures.
A young girl reluctantly attends a winter girl scout retreat and unravels the truth behind her identity.
When his father refuses to stop reaching out, a young man groomed online at twelve must decide whether to finally let someone see what was left behind.
Venus, a Black violinist, accompanies her wife, Harley, to clear out a family estate. Once there, Venus begins experiencing disturbing visions that blur the line between past and present, drawing her into the house’s dark history. As the haunting intensifies, she uncovers buried secrets of
