Tenth Annual Walla Walla Movie Crush begins July 10

WALLA WALLA - This weekend, the Walla Walla Movie Crush returns with three days of American short films. Curated by co-founder Warren Etheridge, the films will be shown in thematic one-hour blocks beginning on Friday, July 10.

The festival has showcased narrative, documentary, animated, musical, and experimental films, over the past ten years. This year, the 100 shorts are from Oscar-winners, rising stars, professional, and student filmmakers.

In 2025, "Moviemaker Magazine" named Movie Crush as one of the world's 25 "coolest film festivals."

Visit themoviecrush.com to view the trailer, movie schedule, block themes, and to purchase tickets. The tickets are all-access weekend passes, from $50.

Friday, July 10

• 6 p.m. – Reading is Fundamental

This block of five shorts celebrates literature, libraries, and the people who champion them while denouncing those who would violate these spaces and texts.

• 7 p.m. – A Noble Profession

Three films about educators who lead with patience, support, and compassionate redress.

• 8 p.m. – ...A Many Spintered Thing

In this hour, a man overthinks a digital connection, and an older woman struggles to keep pace while speed dating.

Saturday, July 11

• 11 a.m. – Disrupting Hollywood

Films to be announced.

• Noon – Mulligans

In golf, a player can get a do-over, but second chances are rarely granted in life. In this block are four exceptions to the rule.

• 1 p.m. – Pregnant Pause.

Strife begins at conception. Being a mom is the toughest, lowest-paying job in the world.

• 2 p.m. – This Must be the Place

In this hour, four films on home.

• 3 p.m. – Bye & Cell

Four films about people going into or returning from prison.

• 4 p.m. – Good Mourning

We die twice – once when life leaves our body, and again when our name is spoken for the last time.

• 7 p.m. – Life, Give or Take

Films about the existential implications of the afterlife, questioning how we spend our days or pay for our choices.

• 8 p.m. – Special Skills

Six films that are a tribute to the uniquely and mundanely talented.

• 9 p.m. – Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

This NSFW pleasure-seeking block includes the pass/fail based pursuit of carnal knowledge.

Sunday, July 12

• Noon – Sh!thole Country?

Those in glass white houses shouldn't throw stones. Perhaps our government officials should tend to our needs and their own ethical conduct.

• 1 p.m. – Caring for Others

Caregivers of all kinds are featured in this hour.

• 2 p.m. – Help Us, Father...

...for you have sinned. Five bad dad stories.

• 3 p.m. – The Block of Job

In a Capitalist society, work can feel more inescapable than death or taxes. Workers in these five films confront adversity and reconsider the almighty dollar's sovereignty.

• 4 p.m. – Say What?

This last block in the festival focuses on people who use words to express themselves artfully.

Movie Crush weekend passes are $50 and include access to all 17 hours of programming and admission to the festival's Closing Night Awards Spectacular.

Go to TheMovieCrush.com for more information and to purchase tickets.