Tickets $10/$9 • King Screening Room MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL These films travel to cinemas similar to The Park Theatre all over the world. New York, NY August 20, 2025: MANHATTAN SHORT today announced the Ten Finalists for its 28th Annual Short Film Festival, a worldwide event taking place in over 500 venues across six continents between September 25 and October 5, 2025. MANHATTAN SHORT is the only event of its kind. The Ten Finalists will screen simultaneously across the world during a one-week period, with the Best Film and Best Actor awards determined by ballots cast by the audiences in each participating venue.The Ten MANHATTAN SHORT Finalists hail from seven countries with films from Spain, Irael, United Kingdom, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Mexico, alongside three films from the USA. “These ten short films bring a much-needed positive energy to the world!” says Nicholas Mason, founding director of Manhattan Short Film Festival. The MANHATTAN SHORT Final Ten are: Read Interviews with each Finalist: https://www.manhattanshort.com/finalists.html The MANHATTAN SHORT 2025 line-up screens a worldwide line-up of 10 short films that explore a wide range of topics relevant to everyone. Have a look at both dramatic and comical takes on migration, reconciliation, housing prices, parenthood and the price of silence, not to mention the trials and tribulations of growing into adulthood, especially when fantastical and dangerous griffins fly overhead and you have an OMG murderous mother. And what is it about golf anyway? Audiences will find it more difficult than ever to vote for Best Film and Best Actor.
Announces Finalists for 2025
Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting (USA), Al Fresco (Spain), Chasing the Party (USA), Paradise Man (USA), We Have Sinned Before You (Israel), I Have My Reasons (United Kingdom), Ovary-Acting (Norway), Beyond Silence (The Netherlands), Zodiak (Belgium), Passarinho (Mexico).
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YOU GOT GOLD: A CELEBRATION OF JOHN PRINE (2025) Fri Jan 30, 6:30pm & Sat Jan 31, 2pm (1/30/26-1/31/26)
You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine (1/30/26-1/31/26)
THE GODFATHER (1972) The original. 4K Restored & big screen. Sat, Jan 31, 6:30pm (1/31/26-1/31/26)
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2/1/26-2/1/26)
The Blue Angel (2/6/26-2/6/26)
Back to the Future (2/7/26-2/7/26)
ArtsCinema Series Stage2Screen: Titanic the Musical (2/8/26-2/8/26)
Arts Cinema Series: Lotto and Berenson: Crossed Destinies (2/11/26-2/11/26)
The Princess Bride (2/13/26-2/13/26)
Dueling Pianos (2/14/26-2/14/26)
Arts Cinema Series: In Search of Mozart (2/18/26-2/18/26)
ArtsCCinema Series Stage2Screen: Kinky Boots (2/22/26-2/22/26)
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ArtsCinema Series Stage2Screen: Titanic the Musical (1/25/26-1/25/26)
Ben Pratt Magician and Illusionist (1/24/26-1/24/26)
Animal Crackers (1/23/26-1/23/26)
Let's Groove Tonight: Earth, Wind, & Fire Tribute (1/17/26-1/17/26)
STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI Fri Jan 16, 6:30pm (1/16/26-1/16/26)
Arts Cinema Series: Caravaggio (1/14/26-1/14/26)
Fackham Hall (1/9/26-1/15/26)
Wicked: For Good (12/26/25-1/8/26)
Project Shakespeare Presents: A Christmas Carol (12/21/25-12/21/25)
"A Swingin' Yuletide" Big Band Holiday Show Featuring the NH Jazz Orchestra (12/20/25-12/20/25)
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Eureka Day
New Hampshire Theatre Project (4/17 - 5/2) | |
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Dueling Pianos
The Park Theatre (2/14 - 2/14) | |
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Draw the Line
Claremont Opera House (5/16 - 5/16) | |
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CHALLENGER: Soaring with Christa McAuliffe™
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (1/31 - 1/31) | |
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O.A.R.
Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion (9/13 - 9/13) | |
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Sh!t-faced Shakespeare
Claremont Opera House (4/11 - 4/11) | |
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Barnstormers Theatre (6/25 - 7/4) | |
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