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Dances With Films Announces 2025 Lineup: Chris Hartwell’s ‘Do No Harm’ To Open Festival,  Aaron Sherry’s ‘Captain Tsunami’ To Close

Dances With Films announces the 2025 program for the 28th edition of the independent film festival in Los Angeles.

Along with Do No Harm, additional narrative features making their world premieres include: Daniel Hayden’s A Bloody Mess; Cameron A. Tubbs’ Acolyte; Daniel J. Clark’s American Comic; Jared Cohn and Bahar Bella Danesh’s And Still Smiling; Vera VanGuard’s Apocalypse Love; Mark Wilson’s The Calling; Luca Perito’s Ciao, Mama; John Giacobbe’s Crusty Fouler; Lanre’ Obisesan’s Dokita Musa; Daniel Bogran’s The Killing Moon; Jake Myers’, Dylan King Welter’s The Militia; Nate Hilgartner’s No Choice; Béla Baptiste’s The Obelisk; Josh Munds and Chris Alan Evans’ Peeping Todd; Julian Berger’s Real Couples; Avan Hardwell’s Silent Prey; Brandon Buczek’s Something Casual; Rio Contrada’s Splinter; Adam Finberg’s Star People; Benjamin Gonyo’s Strait Undercover; Lane Michael Stanley’s T; Noam Kroll’s Teacher’s Pet; Hariharasudhen Nagarajan’s Tether; Cate Caplin’s The Unicorn Diaries, and Stephen Portland’s Universal. These are the feature-length documentaries making their world premieres at DWF: Guilford Adams and Casey Pinkston’s American Clown; Liat Ron’s Fear and Now; Peter Jones’ Fortunate Sons; Allison Norlian and Kody Leibowitz’s Meandering Scars; David Anthony Ngo and Stephen Mccallum’s Never Get Busted! With a mix of stand-up performances, sketch videos, exclusive interviews, and relatable everyday life scenarios, they candidly share their personal struggles with anxiety, the world’s most prevalent mental health condition, affecting more than 300 million people globally.

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