Join the Premiere
The 2025 FFF short films (Session A, described below) will premiere at historic Cinema 21 in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, December 4 at 7:00 pm. A second screening of Session A will be held Sunday, December 7 at 4:00 pm.
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Sessions A and B of the 2025 FFF will be available to stream on-demand (on your computer) from December 4, 2025 to January 4, 2026. After that, select films will only available for group screening rentals.
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16 films | 8 countries | 3.5+ hours
Session A: Short Films
Awake: The Dark Night of the Soul (7:00) – José Antonio Márquez Arroyo (Venezuela)
Bumps on Sticks (3:56) – Riitta Ikonen, Ben Kinsley (USA)
Caverns and Coprophilia (7:32) – Hamilton Pevec (USA)
Do I Know You, Mushroom? (14:47) – Morgaine Lee (Canada)
Hyphae (2:30) – Sarah Muise (Germany)
Lavsang: Song of the Lichens (3:30) – HC Gilje (Norway)
Mania (3:52) – Chia-Hui Lei (Taiwan)
Myconism (3:15) – Vittoria Ambrosi, Elena Arnoldi, Jenny Boato, Angela Trolese (Italy)
Peaks to Prairie: A Holistic Regenerative Approach (19:59) – Chad Weber (USA)
Ricochet Sculpture in Mycelium (15:46) – Anne-Marie Rocher (Canada)
Savior (4:24) – Zack Bauer, Zoe Larsen, Christian Pereira (USA)
Studies on Entangled Life (16:34) – Tuane Eggers (Brazil)
Subsurface: Exploring Our Fungal Foundations (14:23) – Mila Marie Garelle-Essam (USA)
Where the Mushrooms Grow (3:16) – Maggie Gercken, Claudia Andrade (USA)
Session B: Long Films
Micocosmo: A Fungi's World in a Festival (29:58) – Davide Menegazzi (Italy)
Tie Die (80:08) – Morgan Miller (USA)
Note: Session A will be shown live at the two screenings in Portland, Oregon (details above). Sessions B will only be available to watch via streaming.
Awake: The Dark Night of the Soul
José Antonio Márquez Arroyo
(Venezuela)
Bumps on Sticks
Riitta Ikonen, Ben Kinsley
(USA)
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3:56 | Experimental, Documentary, Comedy
Three human-sized elf cups, a loupe for scale, and a mycologist, guide you through the process of close observation, documentation, and proper specimen collection. Are you ready to join the ranks of the global citizen-mycologist kingdom?
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Artists Riitta Ikonen, Ben Kinsley, and Jessica Langley have been collaborating on award winning mushroom costumes for the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2019. They are the subjects of the documentary "Fest in Show", and their costumes have been featured in the film "Fantastic Fungi", in Mushroom People Magazine I and II, Vogue and National Geographic.
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Caverns and Coprophilia
Hamilton Pevec
(USA)
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1:29 | Documentary
Dr. Amy Honan and Cave biologist Andy Better make scientific discoveries underground while collecting rare specimens of poop loving fungi.
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In 2020 Hamilton quit his jobs and dedicated his life to mushrooms. He prefers to be face down in the duff huffing forest terps. However, He is usually foraging discarded food in his Colorado home where he lives with his wife, his mother and 2 children (which me made).
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Do I Know You, Mushroom?
Morgaine Lee
(Canada)
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14:47 | Documentary, Experimental
A poem, drawings, interviews, anthropology conferences, and fungal forays. "do i know you, mushroom?" is an assemblage that reaches toward the feeling of going on a mushroom foray — the textures, the journey, the contemplations on life and our interconnectedness, and the great wonder of fungi.
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Morgaine Lee is a documentary filmmaker, artist, and recent MA anthropology graduate from Simon Fraser University, in Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh territory. Morgaine's filmmaking is informed by her background in anthropology, her interest in fungi and multispecies world-making, and collaborative experimentation.
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Hyphae
Sarah Muise
(Germany)
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2:30 | Animation
Hyphae is an animated short following three tiny mushrooms as a wildfire sweeps through their forest clearing. Told without words, it explores fragility, loss, and the quiet resilience of life.
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Based in Berlin, Sarah Muise is a design master’s student with a passion for plants and fungi. She weaves these life forms into her work to explore new ways of seeing and relating to the natural world.
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Lavsang - Song of the Lichens
HC Gilje
(Norway)
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3:30 | Documentary, Experimental, Animation
Another film by Gilje that explores the fascinating landscapes and biology of lichen, using microscope footage of lichen combined with text and a poetic soundtrack.
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Interdisciplinary artist HC Gilje has moved between installation, experimental video, live performance and set design since he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim in 1999.
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Mania
Chai-Hui Lei
(Taiwan)
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3:52 | Experimental, Animation
As the mycelium spreads, an undercurrent of desire and arrogance subtly emerges, intertwining and diverging continuously with the passage of time...
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Chia-Hui Lei is an animation director currently pursuing a master’s degree in animation in Estonia. Her work centers on stop-motion and cross-media creation, exploring the intersection of animation and traditional crafts. She is drawn to small-scale making—puppet crafting, papercutting, illustration, and the playful spirit of pretend play. With a deep curiosity for materials, she weaves together fabric, embroidery, paper, paint, and yarn to build tactile, poetic worlds where each material speaks its own language.
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Micocosmo: A Fungi's World in a Festival
Davide Menegazzi
(Italy)
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29:58 | Documentary
MicoCosmo is Italy’s first festival entirely dedicated to mycology and the world of fungi in all its forms, born from a grassroots effort led by volunteers and spontaneous support from the community. Talks, workshops, forest walks, and convivial moments create organic spaces for shared experiences and exchange of knowledge. Through the voices of mycologists, researchers, organizers and fungi enthusiasts, the film explores the richness of perspectives that animate contemporary mycology. A place for collective dialogue and growth, imagining new approaches and building a community inspired by the world of fungi.
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Davide Menegazzi is a passionate videographer with nearly 20 years of experience in capturing stories and captivating audiences. Living in the mountains of Italy, he developed a deep connection to nature early on which inspires his visual storytelling. Davide’s work has taken him across the continents filming in the Outback in Australia and the mountains across Europe.
He is also a certified mycologist and passionate about fungi in all their forms, including growing mushrooms both indoors and on logs. When he heard about the launch of Italy’s first festival entirely dedicated to mycology, he was excited to volunteer his skills to share the untold stories of the mushroom kingdom and its growing community of fungi fans. -
Myconism
Vittoria Ambrosi, Elena Arnoldi, Jenny Boato, Angela Trolese
(Italy)
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3:15 | Experimental
What if there were a cult devoted to fungi and humanity itself was born from them? This short film combines animation and photography to imagine a world where fungi are honored through values, prayers, dances, and rituals in harmony with nature.
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Angela, Elena, Jenny, and Vittoria are four Italian designers specializing in communication and graphic design, driven by a shared passion for exploring and developing experimental projects.
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Peaks to Prairie: A Holistic Regenerative Approach
Chad Weber
(Canada)
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20:48 | Documentary
How can we harness the intelligence of nature to address our climate challenges?
An epidemic of wildfires threatens forests in the peaks, while nearby agricultural soils in the prairie sit degraded.
Is there a holistic way these two problems could serve as solutions for each other?
Did somebody say Mushrooms? -
Chad Weber is a documentary filmmaker based in Longmont Colorado. He founded Free Range Films in 2020 as an outlet to share documentary films. He has produced award winning short and feature films about our planet and the human spirit.
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Ricochet Sculpture in Mycelium
Anne-Marie Rocher
(Canada)
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15:46 | Documentary
In this documentary, we will accompany two artists in their creative journey, from Montreal to Georgian Bay in Ontario, with the goal of creating an artwork using mycelium that is ambitious and original.
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Anne-Marie Rocher is an accomplished producer and director of films and documentary series. She is the executive producer and the director of the feature film Forêts urbaines (Urban Forests) 2025, co-produced with Office national du film du Canada. Through her company, Productions Testa, Anne-Marie Rocher pursues an extensive career as an independent producer and director. She is the creator of several documentaries and she also won many awards.
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Savior - Mars FM
Zack Bauer, Zoe Larsen, Christian Pereira
(USA)
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4:24 | Music Video
A fuzzy little guy takes you on a journey through the forests of the PNW, investigating all the mushrooms he can find with his magnifying glass, until one tiny mushroom helps him investigate himself.
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Based in Portland, OR, Mars FM is a psychedelic folk rock trio who love to frolic about the mossy, green forests of the Pacific Northwest, with a particular fondness for the squishy, slimy inhabitants of said forests (fungi, slugs, etc.). Their creations draw from and showcase their connection to the natural world, with hopes of inspiring humans to protect wild spaces.
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Studies on Entangled Life
Tuane Eggers
(Brazil)
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16:34 | Documentary, Experimental
The short film Studies on entangled life portrays a poetic look on the symbiosis between fungi and plant roots, known as mycorrhizas, and their relationship with soil health. The narrative is intertwined with the transformative experience of pregnancy.
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Tuane Eggers is a brazilian PhD student in visual arts. Her work is focused on photography, with themes related to the flows and the impermanence of life. In his current research, she investigates relationships of symbiosis, coexistence and co-creation. She also works in the audiovisual field.
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Subsurface: Exploring Our Fungal Foundations
Mila Marie Garelle-Essam
(USA)
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14:23 | Documentary
This film explores the somewhat hidden and overlooked realm of fungi. With relaxing , immersive visuals, the viewer is asked to consider how little we know about the world with the fungal kingdom as a prime example. In making this film I wanted to show people their inherent connection to nature, from the feeling you get watching butterflies in the forest to considering that your own body is an ecosystem. This film inspires curiosity and love for the land and the other sentient beings who live here with us.
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Morgan Miller started making his own films and editing them when he was a child. Since then, he has over 20 years of professional experience directing and editing award winning films; anything from documentaries, commercials, music videos, to narrative or educational videos. Miller has shot his films across 4 different continents (Europe, North and South America and New Zealand) and has just completed his first narrative feature film with TIE DIE.
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Tie Die
Morgan Miller
(USA)
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80:08 | Horror, Comedy
Cult legends Lloyd Kaufman and Joe Bob Briggs join forces as a grizzled ranger and a tough trooper battling a psychedelic bloodbath in the woods—where something far more savage than a bear is butchering hippies.
Viewer warning: This film contains nudity and explicit violence.
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Morgan Miller started making his own films and editing them when he was a child. Since then, he has over 20 years of professional experience directing and editing award winning films; anything from documentaries, commercials, music videos, to narrative or educational videos. Miller has shot his films across 4 different continents (Europe, North and South America and New Zealand) and has just completed his first narrative feature film with TIE DIE.
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Where the Mushrooms Grow
Maggie Gercken, Claudia Andrade
(USA)
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3:16 | Experimental
This experimental stop-motion film follows the journey of a caterpillar searching for a place to transform and it finds the answer where the mushrooms grow.
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Maggie Gercken is an animator based in Richmond, VA. She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Kinetic Imaging and now works as a freelancer specializing in stop motion. Where the Mushrooms Grow is her first short film and has been shown in two festivals as of 2025.
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