The Brainwash Movie Festival returns to The Box Shop!
Join us for two nights of strange, beautiful, brilliant, and unforgettable short films from all over the world.
Fri & Sat • Nov 14–15, 2025
8:00pm
The Box Shop, 951 Hudson Ave, SF
$12 suggested donation
Expect an eclectic mix of experimental shorts, animations, music videos, sci-fi pieces, and more from Germany, Iran, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, and across the US.
This is one of the most unique, long-running indie film festivals in SF, and we’re thrilled to host it again at The Box Shop. Come hang out with us under the night sky and watch the reels roll
Welcome to our 2025 Extremely Super Deluxe Shows!
At the Boxshop, again, this year-951 Hudson Av., San Francisco, CA.
Shows start at 8:00pm Fri. & Sat., Nov. 14 & 15/2025.
Admission is $12 each suggested donation.
AND… on Thurs., Nov. 13, we are looking for extras to play audience members for our Brainwash broadcast series. Starts at 6:00pm and lasts about 2 hours for FREE pizza, beer, wine, soft drinks, water, and a chance to get into our own productions
Fri., Nov. 14, 2025
Prayer of the Sea – Martin Gerigk (6:30, Germany)
The Roundabout – Jasdip Sagar (4:01, United Kingdom)
middle of it… – Claudio Moore (1:04, US)
My Next Guest – Lucas Hydock (11:30, US)
Dream Sequence: Stasis – Adam E. Stone (2:40, US)
Snow White, Red Rose and the Little Capitalist – Laura Lewis-Barr (7:00, US)
Cat and Fish – Nilram Ranjbar (1:40, Iran)
Eye – Jamie Erfurdt (6:15, US)
60=1 – Iman Davari (1:07, Iran)
Poos – Celestine Twigg (4:35, Canada)
Shirin’s Bitter Tears – Amin Fallah (7:02, Iran)
Family Dinner – Huayi Yu (4:00, US)
Johnny Crow – Xstine Cook, Jesse Gouche (7:15 Canada)
Edward de Vere Goes to Mars! – Blair Murphy (2:45 US)
Brainwash – Elizabeth Sher (6:37, US)
Happy Face Time – John Akre (1:41, US)
Sat., Nov. 15, 2025
Staircase Working Cut – Yasmin Mawaz-Khan,
music – Kush Arora (3:18, US)
Consumer.-Shimmery (music video) – Nick Rohr (2:42, US)
The Scientist War – Parker Strickland (13:25, US)
(Come On) Little Sweetie – Ed Jones (4:16, US)
Ball On Track – Richard Alpert (1:06, US)
Chawk (Fountain) – Hazhir As’adi (13:05, Iran)
The Idealist – Adam E. Stone (2:28, US)
The Three Inches – Craig Trumbo (3:53, US)
The Eye In Nothing – Michael Edwards (5:43, US)
DYNAMICS – Teo Baehler (14:00, the Netherlands)
Anima – Alfred Matthew Hernandez (4:00, US)
Encuentro Americano – E. T. Vazquez (10:47, US)
This Is Where We’ll Build the Labyrinth – Greg Roensch (6:59, US)
Brown Eyed Girl – Dean Snider (3:35, US)
WHAT’S not to like?!!
So com’n down, have a seat and let the reels roll!
And we’ll SEE YOU at the movies…