Finalists: November 2025

15: Bet by Bob Banday Shryock (USA)

A Recipe For Redemption by Will Scott (USA)

Anniversary Dinner by Sarah Liz Bell (USA)

Antarctic Ice, Global Hope by Xintang Zhang (China)

Avalanche by Millie Cupp (USA)

Battlefield by Xiang Wan (Malaysia)

​Beacon Plan by Ningmin Han (China)

Before the Freeze by Tenley Eakin Raj (USA)

Budget Date by Kathryn Soler Beer (USA)

Cherry Baby by Adam Holley (USA)

Cold Soup by Anthony Michael Pilja Pilja and Erick Quintanilla (USA)

Drowning by Sydney Wider (USA)

Enemy Heroes by Mark Diamond (USA)

Everything’s Fine by Patrick Gilles (USA)

Heckler Guy by Miguel Lopez de Leon (USA)

Horse Grandpa by Morton Chen (China)

Hushaby, O-Hushaby by Yunqing Xu (China)

I See You by Sai Man Zhao (USA)

It Has His Eyes by Gustavo Montano (USA)

Just One Round! by Samuel Chang (USA)

Killher Instinct by Raul Antonio Rendon Araiza (Switzerland)

Kites Are Fun by Jiafan Lin (USA)

L’Onore: The Vengeance by Frank Mancuso (USA)

Let Me Run by Benjamin Samuel (USA)

Let’s Go! Love Ishinomaki – United Smiles Across the World by Tomohisa Ishigami (Japan)

Letters Of Love by Johan Wickholm (Gibraltar)

Leviathan by Andre Surya (Indonesia)

Memory By Edit by Xiang Wan (Malaysia)

Morning Munchies by Jake Knox (USA)

Murder by Xiang Wan (Malaysia)

My List of Bodies I Buried in the Woods by Andrew DeBennett (USA)

No Glow by Corey Koepper (USA)

Novel Idea by Miguel Lopez de Leon (USA)

Parallel by Kevin Brewerton (USA)

Piano by Zhou Fang (USA)

Pinsetters Needed by Gary Galonek (USA)

Porcelain Souls by Hamid Y. Najafli, Sevinj Safarova, and Nail Gurbanov (USA)

Reflections – Eps 1 by Emmanuel Odulana (Nigeria)

Sunset Farm by Helen Claire Fowler (UK)

Sweet Spiral by Angela King (USA)

Temple Of The Money Changers 2.0 by Nicole Blessing (USA)

The Hero by Shalom Kolontarov (USA)

The Highschool by Cameron Alan Veitch (Canada)

The Impostor by Austin Chang (USA)

The Job by Craig Railsback (USA)

The Long Goodbye by Canran Xie (China)

The Shallow End by Eddie Kisfaludy (USA)

The Show by Nick Lane (USA)

Today’s Color is… by Angel Gomez (USA)

Your Turn by Gary Bennett (USA)

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