Independent Shorts Awards

The Business of Health

In a future where medical care depends on online fame, a son races to become viral enough to save his

Directed by Montana James Miller (USA)

For years, Mary has been writing protest letters to help free a famous poet held as a political prisoner in

Miss You follows Mark, a man haunted by the slow disappearance of the woman he once loved. Through memories of

Process is an audiovisual composition structured in four movements. The work explores sound as an evolving system rather than a

There are two reasons I can’t break up with Big Jerry: My friends need to steal his money, and I

Two broken souls escape into a hidden beach where time freezes, and pain fades, but their surreal romance soon becomes

While visiting her old hometown, Jenny runs into Martin – a childhood friend she hasn’t seen in years. Their chance

A struggling musician sneaks into a hospital to find an ailing record executive, but instead meets a terminal little girl

A young volunteer at a daycare center forms an unlikely friendship with a lonely elderly man through jazz music, giving

Two estranged sisters are trapped in a bedroom on the day of their father’s fourth wedding, forcing them to confront

A gay teenager wants to audition for a transvestite character in a play, however, he is afraid that the uninformed

In 2001, in Palhoça, Carlinhos, a 12-year-old boy passionate about cinema, spends his birthday searching for the missing sticker he