Independent Shorts Awards

Sui Caedere

A man who has lost every hope in life finds a way out thanks to an app. Directed by Fabrizio

After an innocent girl is murdered by drug-dealers, an unlikely duo gets together in the name of vengeance. Directed by

An ill-faded attempt of an absent father trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter. Directed by Jeremy Heslup (USA)

Chul: The Politics of Hair’ is the short film that inspired the music for Kalo. A fundraiser will soon be

A misfit gay man tries desperately to get to a job interview, but his stoner friends and eccentric neighbors get

With over 2.3 million Americans behind bars – an estimated 241,000 in California according to the Prison Policy Initiative –

A man reflects on his career as a skydiver and how his life has changed since. Directed by Ryan Reznick

The extent to which we make real contacts depends on the extent to which we become ourselves. In these kinds

After the railroad forces her alcoholic husband to move North, Ruth DeLay–a pregnant, destitute mother of four–desperately seeks an unregulated

Noah, 11, flees his gloomy life by taking refuge in the reading of Molière’s plays and his dreams. In his

In 1980, a friendship is put to the test. Directed by Roxanne Paisan (Spain)

I Remember follows the owners of Yesteryear, a small business dedicated to the digital conversion of home media, as they

A princess and her advisors humiliate and inadvertently charm an oppressive military leader and his followers, a group of fervent

1929: A struggling vaudeville actress (Emily Durchholz) barters ethics for a shot at success as she’s cast into the depths