Presented at Gateway Film Center as part of the 2026 Cinema Columbus Film Festival. Now in its fifth year, the festival will present more than 20 screenings involving approximately 76 feature and short films at the Drexel Theatre, Gateway Film Center, Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse, and the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Tickets for individual selections are priced at $11.57 unless otherwise noted, and can be purchased from cinemacolumbus.com. Please note that these screenings are not eligible for myGFC membership benefits.

The Cardinal Pass, which includes access to all mixers, receptions, panels, and screenings across the entire festival weekend, is available for $100. Other day passes & venue packages are also available. Learn more and purchase festival passes here.

A vampire, a werewolf, and a grim reaper walk into a screening room…there’s no punchline, but these films explore the unidentified, the odd, the fantastical.

Origins: Shorts of Ohio includes the following films:

Wolf Ticket | Dir. Ryan Jackson
Me, My Dad, And The Thing In The Shed | Dir. Tanner Hamilton
The Mysterious Happenings of the East Marsh | Dir. Dave Sorboro
Drunkula | Dirs. Hope Madden & George Wolf
Full of Good Men | Dir. Mollie Shourd
The Auditor and the Apocalypse | Dir. Cinder Chou
Corrugated Valor | Dir. Jasper Ian Jones
GRIM | Dir. Nathaniel Demuth, Ben Scott & Brad Waugh

Learn more and purchase tickets to this screening here.

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.