Independent Shorts Awards

Featuring professional surfer Danny Fuller, a brief glimpse into the day you don’t go surfing.
Directed by Peter Darley Miller (USA)

A conductor prepares for a show in his dressing room.
Directed by Thomas Sivec (Canada)

Kristin and Samuel are still in love after losing their son in a miscarriage. Samuel has other plans unknown to Kristin that are deadly.
Directed by Felicia Rivers and J. Paul The Demi God (USA)

When the evil landlord wants to ban their pets, these crazy cat ladies bring in the big guns in this comic spy caper!
Directed by Melissa Skirboll (USA)

A young man just wants to spend a rainy night at home, enjoying a vintage horror movie, but a ravenous ghost blows in with the storm.
Written by Mark William Hammond (USA)

Two people get into the relationship of a lifetime, only to find themselves trapped in a cycle of love and heartbreak.
Directed by Kyle Dubiel (USA)

A young woman seeks to heal from the emotional wounds inflicted by her abusive father, even if that means confronting him in the Astral Realm.
Directed by Ashley Agren (USA)

Ingredients: an old accordion, a musician, a dancer, a wardrobe with mirrors, rays of sun… A musician is getting ready to play a Tango. A dancer is getting ready to dance a Tango. A Tango is such a serious thing. A Tango is such a powerful thing. So much that something could happen if you don’t close the wardrobe doors carefully…
Directed by Alessandra Guarino (Italy)

The age-old story of star-crossed lovers. She is 36 he is 21 will it work.
Directed by Gary Winstead (USA)

Beibhinn, a young American, meets Côme during her trip in Europe. It’s love at first sight! But not only between them. For her, life in Switzerland suddenly makes sense. That’s why she decides to follow her natural exuberance and to marry this young man she barely knows…
Directed by Malika Pellicioli (Switzerland)

“What We Do Here” explores how aspiring architects at Manchester School of Architecture approach various stages of modelmaking as they grapple with materials, methods and machines to ultimately reveal the ways in which the models inform their individual growth and understanding. In addition to this, it observes the ways that staff integrate practical making into their requirements for student assignments and within their own research projects.
Directed by Kieran Hanson and Howard Walmsley (UK)

An improv’d drama following two couples as they spend the weekend away together, only to be confronted with the problems in their relationships.
Directed by Holly Hargreaves and Simone Ball (Australia)

Azad is so depressed at missing his wife. His daughter Samar is doing something to pacify and cure him.
Directed by Kaveh Jahed (Iran)

A grieving mother aids a police detective in solving a horrific crime, only to regret it.
Directed by Robert Mann (USA)