Independent Shorts Awards

Gary

A man contends with his new smart home, and the horrors of its past. Directed by Michael Rognlie (USA)

A short film that tackles the stigma of mental health in young men. We follow Kai through his journey with

Reeling from his wife’s divorce, an obsessive man TIM buys a smart home device, CRYSTAL, with the promise to make

This story, inspired by true events, centers around an up-and-coming boxer who is forced to abandon his promising young career

Our surreally comic, female-centric film features a willful, modern “damsel in distress” abandoned and betrayed on a desert road, waiting

We construct our existence inside the void of space, surrounded by objects. Atoms, our bodies and the universe exist within

A guardian teddy bear will have to traverse through a dreamscape to expell the oldest nightmare. Directed by Nicholas Ryan

An abrasive foul-mouthed local finds himself at odds in his changing neighborhood. Directed by Taylor Alden Thompson (USA)

In the summer of 1939, two young women – Olive and Lynn – wait for a man on a path

Confronted with an impossible decision, Isabelle chooses to leave her dream of becoming an artist behind to live the life

DDo Something is a film about the conflict an African American mother has with her daughter who has been arrested

It all started when Dori, a woman in pest control, saw Julia, an assassin and out of work actress sitting

Holly, an underworld hit-woman, and Benny, her hitman associate, carry with them an intertwined past as they sit in a

Hedonists and bored.Adolescence is a complicated time of life, long and dazed days, many emotions to cope with.Carbonara pasta becomes