Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
On New Year’s Eve, a debt-ridden worker takes a shift at a neighborhood churro shop, where mounting pressure and shared struggles turn a routine night into a chaotic test of endurance.
March 2026’s Awards of Excellence highlight two distinct voices: one bold and transgressive, the other intimate and emotionally grounded, each pushing storytelling in a different direction.
From emotional repression to generational trauma, five distinctive scripts showcase strong formal control and character-driven storytelling.
Independent Shorts Awards is proud to announce the award winners for March 2026. This month’s selections were chosen from a
A troubled young woman alone on the subway is stalked by a shadowy wolf determined to keep her afraid. Directed
He outsourced his own death. They outsourced the job… to a comically long chain of subcontractors. In this satire, a
An expert in the supernatural is caught in a family feud on how to honor the body of a recently
Good Enough is a scripted comedy series about four women in New York who followed every rule of modern adulthood
An aloof cardiologist and a spirited artist accidentally get their folders swapped at a bus stop and both deal with
Directed by Mark Rose (USA)
A journey of how two wandering souls find exactly what they are looking for. Directed by Brett Robert Culbert (USA)
Carolyn stands for her arrest photo, looking bored with the flash burst at her face. She is then taken to
The 20th and 21st century of the United States are marked by inequality, violence and broken promises. But the last
When a pregnant woman searches through security footage for her lost dog, she discovers her husband’s infidelity, and the protagonist
Three best friends Charlie, Gina, and Rhonda gather for their monthly wine drinking “10 Dates In 30 Days” meeting to
Sasha, a Russian-American filmmaker living in New York, returns to Moscow as her grandparents prepare for their belated Orthodox wedding.
An overlooked nobody becomes the General who saves the Union and the President who fights to reconstruct it. Written by
A successful lawyer returns to Glasgow with his fiancée to tell his estranged father, who is a powerful and feared