Animated Shorts 2026: Program One
RiverRun is an Academy Award-qualifying festival in the category of Animated Shorts, meaning the winner in this category may submit for Academy Awards consideration.
Because Today is Saturday
It’s Saturday, and a woman struggles with the difficulty of reconciling her home life and her need to escape.
Documentary Shorts 2026: Program 1
RiverRun is an Academy Award-qualifying festival in the category of Documentary Shorts. This is one of two shorts blocks in competition, of which the winner may submit for Academy Awards consideration.
Documentary Shorts 2026: Program 2
RiverRun is an Academy Award-qualifying festival in the category of Documentary Shorts. This is one of two shorts blocks in competition, of which the winner may submit for Academy Awards consideration.
LIMITLESS Shorts
LIMITLESS: Stories Without Restraint features films made by, starring, and centered on people with visible and non-visible disabilities. These urgent, defiant worksdisrupt outdated narratives and assert inclusion as essential—not optional—to the future of storytelling.
Pitch-Black
A furious Diego takes a revengeful path as he tries to find a group of scoundrels who have stolen from his brother Pepico, a blind street lottery vendor.
Rage
Eric lives in a juvenile center and hopes to live with his mother again when he turns 18. When she doesn’t show up to visit him, he runs away to her house.
Ramón Who Speaks to Ghosts
After a volcanic eruption, Ramón walks the island of La Palma with his microphone, looking for ghosts.
