Independent Shorts Awards

The Car Ride After

Two friends take the shock of grief differently after coming back from a dear friend’s funeral. Directed by Morgane Reed-Roth

In a near-future world where heartbreak has become weaponized and emotional immunity is just a pill away, a teenage girl

A 2D animated music video about the cynical cycle of colonialism in Mexico, which incorporates a dozen art styles from

Violent teen Sofi enters an altered state of consciousness whereupon she relives a traumatic memory and has an emotional reunion

As death approaches, a former wartime president is forced to confront not only his own fragility and mortality, but Death

Directed by Esha Sunil Nanal and Himanshu Sanjay Pile

A lonely ventriloquist is served divorce papers at the showroom bar where he works. Things take a strange turn when

An emotionally disturbed New-England woman visits her cousin in New Orleans to calm her, but instead she become fixated on

After suffering a life-altering brain injury, Dara drifts through the remnants of a life that no longer feels like his

A mouthy schoolboy strikes up an unlikely friendship with a homeless bloke who calls himself the “Wizard of Wellington.” But

On a rainy night, a mysterious woman enters a stranger’s motel room looking for something she “forgot”. Directed by Jalaludin

A young Indonesian actress faces pressures of tradition and a distant relationship as her first on-stage kiss blurs the line

A couple lives in a world were every ten years of marriage they have to get a Heart Adjustment to

A story based on my own experience in following my parents around on Take Your Kid to Work Day through