Independent Shorts Awards

Success

An insecure musician learns to accept himself when he turns down a cougar for career advancement.
Directed by Oboatarhe Ebiye Ikuku (Nigeria)

Candy

A teenage girl soon learns she can control a traffic light with the candy she’s eating and decides to have some fun with her new power.
Directed by  J. Samuel Ryan (USA)

Ronan

After a fatal blow to the head in the boxing ring, underground street boxer (Ronan Mathias), loses all sense of vision. During his rehabilitation process, Ronan discovers his newfound abilities to visualize objects in front of him through a variant of echolocation. With consistent turmoil, Ronan goes against the advice of his homecare nurse and trains with his coach how to fight under these new circumstances. Fueled by vengeance and pride, Ronan reenters the ring for a final fight against the opponent who took his vision; only this time… if he loses… he dies.
Directed by Akil McKenize (Canada)

Frozen Lake

What can one do on a frozen lake? Nobody is there, but a couple tries to escape from the city, having a good time.
Directed by János Szén (Hungary)

Joakim Lund: Waiting

In this artistic video you can see how Helge Kallevik works amazingly with the camera in the beautiful surroundings of Haugesund City Park and Christine Elisabeth’s graveyard, and in his own studio in Haugesund. The concept of the music video was made in collaboration between the artist, Joakim Lund and the director, Helge Kallevik. The song itself is inspired by Joakim Lunds one month stay in Tokyo, Japan.
Directed by Helge Kallevik (Norway)

Enola

Enola, early twenties, First Nations and an outsider in her small town in 1985, is humiliated and abused at a high school reunion party. Darcy, a girl at the party, helps Enola off the farm in a shopping cart, drifting on long highways through the night. Derek, a son of a late priest, the leader of Enola’s attack, follows them.
Directed by Shelby Wilson (Canada)

Results

A man struggles to deal with the news that he has a terminal illness and only has a few weeks left to live. He decides to take things into his own hands, which in the end might be a mistake.
Directed by Austin Muratori (USA)

Last Day

Two high school seniors discuss their senior prank on the drive to the last day of school.
Directed by Landon Coats (USA)

Me Too

A young vibrant, aspiring artist, who thrives on chance, puts her absolute all into auditioning to a panel of producers and a casting director for a rare opportunity for a part in a film. What extremes must women go to for an opportunity to have an opportunity?
Directed by Ayeshah Rose (Australia)

The Bed-Dream of Dellingr

One man, one bed, one flat, one day, 12 streets of Arc de Triomphe, 12 hours for a daydream. This Sisyphus-tragedy revolves around multiple psychological dreams, about a self-abandoned man who had a biological clock reversed and lost his diurnal life.
Directed by Chu Jing Zhang (China)