Independent Shorts Awards

This young man is beset by weird fancies, sometimes masked men come into his view, white, green and… masks. Who are they and what they want from him?
Directed by Mohammad Farahani (Iran)

Masai Mara – Kenya. The sun rises and ignites the Savannah. A new day begins for all the animals who live in this habitat. The film invites you to follow a few of them over the course of the day.
Directed by Robert Henno (Belgium)

A short film about one of the biggest problems today – modern day slavery and silent trades of Asia.
Directed by Jegen John Peter (Malaysia)

Stan put an end to crime in order to renew his relationship with his mother and to get closer with his little brother.
Directed by Rouben Manika (France)

In 2025 deceased Hélène Toujours finds herself renewed and alive at the doorstep of her relatives due to modern science. But how happy is everybody with her return?
Directed by Wouter Springer and Wim Bax (Netherlands)

Older Brother is early-released from prison after 50 years. Younger Brother seeks him out for closure. Two brothers, one secret.
Directed by Lawrence Whitener (USA)

For a brief moment, take a glimpse inside the minds of four people as the viewer experiences what they are really thinking versus what happens in their daily lives.
Directed by Ember Crowley (USA)

In a world filled with sad and suicidal fairy tale characters, Cindy, a female assassin wearing just one shoe, reluctantly looks for her last target, while encountering a variety of weird and unusual personages before she finally have a terrifying face to face encounter with the target.
Directed by Kiyanoush Jahaandideh (USA)

A woman has been confined to a mental institution. She pretends to have extrasensory perceptions and the power to cause people’s deaths by accident or suicide, merely by playing with figurines, and she can’t get rid of that power whatever she does.
Directed by Richard Paraiso (Germany)

Abandoned by his gang, an outlaw seeks forgiveness from a lone preacher riding near his hideout.
Directed by Tino Luciano (USA)

“Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder” is a multi-award-winning non-narrative “visual music” film; its five movements (the short-subject contains one section from each movement) use computer animation, painted film, and photographic sources (together with an original electronic-music soundtrack), and map loosely onto the sections of the catholic mass (but with an epistle lesson from Martin Luther King and a credo by Mahatma Gandhi).
Directed by Stephen Travis Pope (USA)

It’s night, rain. Father and amateur filmmaker, in the church are shooting a docummentary. The filmmaker captures in camera, paintings at the ceilling of the cathedral. They shift personal impressions about their meanings. They evoke God, angels, demons and men.
Directed by Waner Biazus (Brazil)

With an ice storm on his heels, Detective Clayton Douglas of the Allentown Police Dept. travels across the snow-covered road to what seems like the middle of nowhere. Out in this vast emptiness sits the massive state hospital.
Directed by Michael Yurinko (USA)

A closed session, a man and a woman, will tell each other over the course of a whole evening, what they have not been able to express in five years of living together. How far can we take the incommunicability, which is growing day by day between two beings…
Directed by Cohen Bacry (France)