Presented at Gateway Film Center as part of the 2024 Cinema Columbus Film Festival. Tickets for individual selections are $10 and can be purchased from cinemacolumbus.com.

The festival, which marks its third year in 2024, will present a total of 22 screenings involving nearly 50 feature and short films at seven locations, including the Drexel Theatre, Gateway Film Center, Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse, Grandview Theater & Drafthouse, McConnell Arts Center, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Southern Theatre.

Festival passes, which include admission to all festival screenings as well as a gift bag of Cinema Columbus and CAPA-related swag, are also available for $200. Purchase a festival pass here.

Local Shorts Block 2 includes the following films:

Fleshwork | Dir. Lydia Cornett
The Back of Your Eyelids | Dir. Payton Burkhammer
First Look | Dir. Jordan Sommerlad
Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way | Dir. Hao Zhou
Before I Let Go | Dir. Cameron Granger
River | Dir. Rafal Sokolowski & Kanat Omurbekov

Following the film screenings, stick around for a Q&A. Learn more & purchase tickets.

Cinema Columbus celebrates the diverse people and stories brought to life by independent filmmakers, sparking curiosity, conversation, and understanding through independent film.

Cinema Columbus works collaboratively with venues throughout central Ohio to establish an outstanding annual film festival bringing independent film from around the globe, and here at home, to our audiences. See the full Festival lineup.