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The Tuffest is Tulsa’s underground film festival, designed to showcase the best in independent, low-budget, and underground cinema. Whether you’re a filmmaker, actor, or just a fan of bold, innovative storytelling, this is your chance to experience unique films and connect with the creative minds behind them.

Meet & Greet: Stick around to network with the cast and crew of the featured films!
Local Craft Beer: Enjoy award-winning brews from Cabin Boys Brewery while watching incredible films.

Block 1 - 3:00 pm - 3:59 pm

Zarbalatrax
Director: Ethan Hawthorne-Dallas
Time:8:00

Two high school kids, at the beginning of their journey into proper adulthood, seek answers about their future and hope to tie up loose ends from the past. They find exactly what they are looking for: at a price.

Grigsby
Director: Grace Mills
Time: 14:00

Grigsby is a lonely monster who meets a group of friends on Halloween night, but he has a secret. Will his new friends still love him regardless of his monstrosity

Script
Director: Piero Cannata
Time: 9:00

Two screenwriters, a ghost story, the night that goes on. Who will put an end to this?

Dammit, Lambotte
Director: Laura Katherine Winter
Time: 7:00

Lou Lambotte watched way too many buddy cop movies as a kid. He grew up to be a spectacular detective, spectacularly goofy.

A Rough Start
Director: Manny Serrano
Time: 5:00

How hard could it be? One dark night, a masked assailant with a very large knife stalks and attacks a young couple. Only once they come face to face, both predator and prey discover that the massacre won’t proceed as planned. What happens next is a series of unfortunate events.

Goodnight, Billy
Director: Daryl Hrdlicka
Time: 2:00

A little girl struggles with her night-time fears.

CROMAESCOPE
Director: Alvaro Beltran Janes
Time: 10:00

CROMAESCOPE is a comedy series made up of 8 episodes. Each one is inspired by different B-series science fiction films from the 1950s, imitating their aesthetics and themes in a comic tone, with fast-paced dialogues and funny situations. The clumsy practical effects, combined with an obvious use of ‘chroma’ technology and the sober creation of backgrounds using AI, reinforce the idea that it is a production made in a more modest time.

Block 2 - 4:00 pm - 4:59 pm

Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake
Director: Javier Badillo
Time: 5:00

Lupe doesn’t care about her abuela’scooking lessons, she just wants to rock with her badass punk band. But when Lupe finds herself battling an alien monster with her band, her abuela’s lessons will remind her that punk rock is more than just loud music, and connecting with her Latin roots may just save their lives.

An Alchemist’s Confession
Director: Cory Williams
Time: 3:00

An alchemist reflects on his terrible decision of sacrificing his humanity for dark magic. The visuals were created by one man using motion capture and real-time rendering inside Unreal Engine 5.

Don't Tell Your Mom
Director: Topher Graham
Time: 8:00

When Kyle goes to work for his dodgy older cousin Jax, he’s shocked to discover Jax’s clientele don’t thirst for drugs.

Decommissioned
Directors: Casey Golden, Beau Golden, Adam Barnard
Time: 14:00

When Unit 76411 is decommissioned and his ship destroyed, he finds himself on the run in an interplanetary pursuit with no one but himself to help him to safety.

My Religious Family
Director: Brandon Hicks
Time: 4:00

A Hand-Drawn retailing of a child’s religious upbringing in a religious cult – with a twist ending.

Gralloch
Director: Michael Ramova
Time: 9:00

A mystery is brewing in Nazi occupied Romania, were a German soldier will find the horrible truth.

Ruby Eyes
Director: Brian Du
Time: 3:00

Heather and Mona are having a seemingly normal sleepover until Mona hears noises that keep her up at night. What could it be?

Block 3 - 5:00 pm - 5:59 pm

Flowers
Director: Cliff Crull
Time: 15:00

Flowers is an exploration of gender roles and the struggle for self-empowerment. Nathan longs for a time when women were submissive homemakers, while Sarah reluctantly plays along as she questions her own self-worth. However, as Nathans behavior becomes increasingly domineering, will the mounting pressure lead to a breaking point

Donut Lover
Director: Arlen Parsa
Time: 3:00

On her way home from work, Karla makes a sweet discovery… Or is it?

Dollface
Director: Titus Jackson
Time: 6:00

A videographer gets more then he bargained for while capturing some old video footage.

Silas
Director: J. Soren Viuf
Time: 11:00

Science prodigy and Gothic literature enthusiast ROSE is very excited about going to Prom for the first time — Sadly, her date, SILAS, is tragically now roadkill….what to do

A Film About Toby
Director: Scott Strout
Time: 15:00

Toby lives a pretty normal life…that is, until he realizes he’s trapped inside a film. What’s worse? It’s a student film.

Block 4 - 6:00 pm - 6:59 pm

Gústi the Strong vs The Merman
Director: Gunnjón Gestsson
Time: 10:00

When a merman kidnaps two fisherman traditional Icelandic wrestler and monster slayer Gústi the strong comes to the rescue.

Agnes Wakes Up
Directors: Andrew Blazensky, Neil Chestnutt
Time: 7:00

Immediately following an exorcism, Agnes wakes up tied to a chair and realizes she is not alone.

The Connoisseur
Director: Titus Jackson
Time: 17:00

A niche connoisseur of Chinese restaurants meets his match when a new restaurant opens in his neighborhood, and their way of doing things changes his perspective.

Adoptation
Director: Liz Whitmere
Time: 5:00

When you are in a room full of weird people, no matter how normal you are, you are the weird one.

Confession
Director: Brett Bower
Time: 5:00

A man interviews a killer who was eventually captured. A power struggle plays out on both sides of the bars in this micro-short that will haunt you in your nightmares.

Block 5 - 7:00 pm - 7:59 pm

Ghosted
Director: Elisabeth Donaldson
Time: 12:00

A Dark Comedy about that guy you met on Hinge.

Fool's Gold
Director: T.J. Morehouse
Time: 10:00

Would be thieves are foiled by a Cherokee curse.

Couch
Director: Ross Chavez
Time: 13:00

After Dallas‚ a relationship with her girlfriend Avery takes a turn for the worse, she discovers something living beneath the cushions of her newly thrifted couch.

The Daydream Before Death
Director: Ethan Holmes
Time: 6:00

Some people believe that in the 30 seconds after death the brain replays your life’s memories. What that would look like is unclear, but putting together your life and watching it all back would be a strange experience. This is a short film idea where a man does just that, watches his life, regrets, and accomplishments.

Safe
Director: Kristian Pierce
Time: 5:00

A child is kidnapped for all the right reasons.

Block 6 - 8:00 pm - 9:29 pm

Kick Cha Cop
Director: Bill Doty
Time: 58:00

A cop seeks vengeance using only his feed and his hate for crime

Block 7 - 9:30 pm - 10:30 pm

No Getting Out
Director: Carl Rhonin
Time: 11:00

A former enforcer cannot escape his old job.

Beethoven's Great Great Great Great Great Grandchild
Director: Daniel Maggio
Time: 13:00

The last living descendent of Beethoven tries to capitalize on their heritage, but they have no musical talent whatsoever.

Gloop: A Tale of Growth
Director: Daniel Wolff
Time: 11:00

Charlie discovers a growth on his tummy in the shower, and before he can seek medical attention he finds that it just might help him make friends

The World's Worst **** Film
Director: Pat Battistini
Time: 6:00

What was supposed to be a historic **** movie shoot turns into a disaster.

When Chilled
Director: Isaac J Smith
Time: 10:00

Schnubert has a day of work