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Title: The Victim
Runtime: 17 min
Country: USA
Director: Annie Liones Nguyen
Placement: Honorable Mention
Competition: September, 2025
Synopsis: Elsie, a nobody who went viral in a school bullying video, was invited to the birthday party of her bully, Bethany, as a joke. As Bethany and her friends coerced her to work as a server at the party, alongside false promises of deleting the video, Elsie hatches a plan to pit all of them against each other, exposing the darkest part of their relationship insecurities and materialistic friendships.