Manhattan Short Film Festival Brings Global Shorts To Evergreen Park Library

EVERGREEN PARK, IL — Film lovers will have the unique opportunity to view ten outside films from around the globe when the 2025 Manhattan Short Film Festival returns to the Evergreen Park Public Library.

The library has showings planned for Sept. 25, Sept. 27 and Sept. 29. Each short film is automatically Oscar-qualified. Movie buffs will not only get to view the films, they will have a chance, as part of a worldwide audience, to cast their vote for their favorite film and actor from their respective venues.

The Evergreen Park library is one of 500 locations hosting the ten finalist films between Sept. 25 and Oct. 6. The finalists will screen simultaneously across the world, with the Best Film and Best Actor awards determined by ballots cast by the audiences in each participating venue.

Showings at the Evergreen Park Public Library, 9400 S. Troy Ave., will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25; Saturday, Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. and Monday, Sept. 29, at 9:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Reserve a time that works for you.

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The short films are each no longer than 20 minutes. The Final Ten MANHATTAN SHORT finalists hail from nine countries with films from Spain, Israeli, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Belgium and Mexico along with three films from the United States.

• “Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting” (USA)
• “Al Fresco” (Spain)
• “Chasing the Party” (USA)
• “Paradise Man” (USA)
• “We Have Sinned Before You” (Israeli)
• “I Have My Reasons” (United Kingdom)
• “Ovary-Acting” (Norway)
• “Beyond Silence” (The Netherlands)
• “Zodiak” (Belgium)
• “Passarinho” (Mexico)