19th Josiah Media Festival

The 19th Josiah Media Festival film screenings will be live-streamed and available to view online 24/7, completely free of charge! The screenings will begin Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 at 8pm and continue until the official award winners ceremony on February 7th! 

This year’s Josiah Media Festival will stream 60 films broken up into 5 blocks of 12 films. Each of these blocks will stream continuously for 48 hours before the next one begins. Blocks will continue on a loop for 35 days, plenty of time to watch all films!

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FILM BLOCK #1 – All Start & End Times at 8pm CST

Tue Dec 16 – Thu Dec 18 | Fri Dec 26 – Sun Dec 28 | Mon Jan 6 – Wed Jan 8 | Thu Jan 16 – Sat Jan 18 | Sun Jan 26 – Tue Jan 28 | Wed Feb 5 – Fri Feb 7

• Overload (Narrative) by Mosayeb Hanaei, Tehran, Iran

• The River (Animation) by The Animation Incubator, Bucharest, Romania

• Bailar (Narrative) by Hannah Benavides, Austin, Texas

• Beyond the Down (Documentary) by Gabriel Corasini, Sao Paulo, Brazil

• Indecisive Choices (Narrative) by Kevin Nunez, San Antonio, Texas

• koMEDIJa (Animation) by Filmsko-Kreativni, Varaždin, Croatia

• Humanity (Narrative) by Quentin Pladeau, Montpellier, France

• Changing Tides (Documentary) by Renn Smith, Mill Valley, California

• Rotation (Narrative) by Kian Ranjbar, Tehran, Iran

• For Fish (Animation) by Harry Yang Xu, San Antonio, Texas

• A Bug In The System (Narrative) by Anna McFarland, Gainesville, Florida

• I’m Giving Birth (Narrative) by Medeya Vlastopulo, Moscow, Russia

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FILM BLOCK #2 – All Start & End Times at 8pm CST

Thu Dec 18 – Sat Dec 20 | Sun Dec 28 – Tue Dec 30 | Wed Jan 8 – Fri Jan 10 | Sat Jan 18 – Mon Jan 20 | Tue Jan 28 – Thu Jan 30

• A Waltz On The Moon (Narrative) by Francisco de Assis Parcerias, Porto, Portugal

• Back To You (Animation) by Martina Diaz Martinez, Santiago, Chile

• Shelly (Narrative) by Jackson Hartman, Atlanta, Georgia

• Tabaco ‘E Cuerco Y Caracol (Experimental) by Hanna Prada, Caracas, Venezuela

• I’m Home (Narrative) by Sawyer Beach, San Antonio, Texas

• Cat-Tastrophe (Animation) by Morgan Seigler, Lake Forest, California

• Up In A Time (Narrative) by Cyris Laury-Schaefer, Haiku, Hawaii

• Suitcase of Memories (Narrative) by Edwin Domachowski, Spotsylvania, Virginia

• Glitter Pxrn (Documentary) by Sophia Lisco, Centennial, Colorado

• The First and the Last Day (Narrative) by Ana Maestre & Ariane Galan, Ciudad Real, Spain

• Sunrise Falling (Animation) by Alexander Salomon, Los Angeles, California

• Entwined Memories (Narrative) by Sofia Moreira, Almada, Portugal

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FILM BLOCK #3 – All Start & End Times at 8pm CST

Sat Dec 20 – Mon Dec 22 | Tue Dec 30 – Thu Jan 2 | Fri Jan 10 – Sun Jan 12 | Mon Jan 20 – Wed Jan 22 | Thu Jan 30 – Sat Feb 1

• Pending Status (Narrative) by Reza Heidari, Damghan, Iran

• Full Moon Party (Animation) by The Animation Incubator, Bucharest, Romania

• Fight Or Flight (Documentary) by Brett McLaurin, Montreal, Canada

• Strokes of Wildflowers (Animation) by Livvy Seabrook-Wilkins, Berkshire, United Kingdom

• Lion Dance (Narrative) by Yu-Cheng Lin, Yunlin, Taiwan

• Page to Page (Animation) by Colton Dillard, Denton, Texas

• Drop In (Narrative) by Grey Jackson, San Antonio, Texas

• Tape 379 (Experimental) by Ariana Gonzalez Villareal, Houston, Texas

• Dreamer (Narrative) by Kate Ellis, San Rafael, California

• The Door (Animation) by Paulina Wozniak, Poznan, Poland

• nothing important, or maybe something worth (Experimental) by Natalie Wall, Poway, California

• Syncopated Soul of Kolkata (Documentary) by Zoya Hassan, Kolkata, India

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FILM BLOCK #4 – All Start & End Times at 8pm CST

Mon Dec 22 – Wed Dec 24 | Thu Jan 2 – Sat Jan 4 | Sun Jan 12 – Tue Jan 14 | Wed Jan 22 – Fri Jan 24 | Sat Feb 1 – Mon Feb 3

• The Wheelchair (Narrative) by Clara Garcia, Madrid, Spain

• Dyscalculia (Animation) by Ioannis Agapitakis-Kern, Berlin, Germany

• Mountain Mist and Tea (Documentary) by Hanhong Liao, Chongqing, China

• Snow (Experimental) by Ruoyi Dong, Calgary, Canada

• Sleep Tight, Dumbass (Narrative) by Bui Cong Thien Duc, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

• Coward Ноїв and ковчег (Animation) by Hayoung Choi, Byeolnae, South Korea

• Ding! (Narrative) by Xinti Lim, Selangor, Malaysia

• Pepe’s Dream (Animation) by Heeju Cho, Osan-si, South Korea

• Enc Ponto (Experimental) by Andre Zaim, Niteroi, Brazil

• Lethal Ethel (Narrative) by Elayna Einish, Montreal, Canada

• Distortion (Animation) by Jiahao Li, Hangzhou, China

• Second Chance (Documentary) by India Anne Mitchell, Petaluma, California

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FILM BLOCK #5 – All Start & End Times at 8pm CST

Wed Dec 24 – Fri Dec 26| Sat Jan 4 – Mon Jan 6| Tue Jan 14 – Thu Jan 16 | Fri Jan 24 – Sun Jan 26 | Mon Feb 3 – Wed Feb 5

• Perennia (Narrative) by Molly Murphy, Montreal, Canada

• I Remember, I Feel, I See, I Am Seen (Animation) by The Animation Incubator, Bucharest, Romania

• The Coffee Break (Narrative) by Asklipios Vrachnos, Athens, Greece

• What Happened to Judy Martins? (Documentary) by Alex Tosko, Stow, Ohio

• Short Story (Narrative) by Wang Mingqing, Chengdu, China

• The Cleaner (Animation) by Mykola Shkoda, Kyiv, Ukraine

• Pages of Promise (Narrative) by Tillie Van Den Bosch, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Frozen (Experimental) by Ryan Zreik, Prosper, Texas

• Resist (Narrative) by Joah Powell, San Antonio, Texas

• Nibbling of the Night (Animation) by Gabi Bania, Warsaw, Poland

• No Time To Talk (Narrative) by Jared Spoor, Avon, Indiana

• Once in a Lifetime (Documentary) by Sloane Ren, Wheeling, West Virginia