Independent Shorts Awards

A 22 years old male who dislikes hypocrisy, receives an unknown letter that leads him to a psychological conflict with himself to end up with a shocking encounter.
Directed by Ahmed Ferchichi (Tunisia)

This short film is about a girl and a boy who, before making an important and painful decision in their lives, want to make the decision of that day, without any sad consequences, to live life…
Directed by Reza Kouhpour (Iran)

A young guy, who has a clear life position not do any evil, together with his friends messes up a photographer, one of them steals photographer’s bag in which some money turns out to be.
Directed by Max Vitko (Ukraine)

A family drive turns tragic and the decisions made will last a lifetime.
Directed by Daniel Oramas (USA)

When a tormented security guard declines the help of a mysterious priest, his sanity starts to unravel, and he finds himself being hunted down by a man long believed to be dead – a bloodthirsty rebel soldier from the war-torn Congo.
Directed by Justin Head (South Africa)

Sequel to the award-winning neo-noir film “Rise of The Avalanche” (2017), “Rise of the Avalanche: Revenge from the Shadows” is about a gangster by the name of Alvin ‘Avalanche’ Steele who is freed from prison and executes his plans to take back his city. Meanwhile, the Supercop that put him behind bars (Antoine ‘Megki’ DeLord) is hell-bent on sending him back to prison where he belongs. While Avalanche is distracted trying to take back his city and doing everything he can to keep the cops off his trail an old rival who he left for dead is out to exact revenge from the shadows.
Directed by Antoine M. Dillard (USA)

A woman struggles to accept the last man on the face of the Earth.
Directed by Jim Menza (USA)

A young African American male travels home to South Carolina looking to achieve a goal for his late father by having a meal at a locally famous Whites Only Diner.
Directed by Marcellus Cox (USA)

While waiting to go over the top on the first day of the Somme, three young men write what could be their final letters home.
Directed by Jonah Jones (UK)

A shy, introverted girl journeys to a magical dimension to battle horrific nightmares from her past.
Directed by Brenda Jallits (USA)

36-year-old Bob Saunders is a collection agent with Salkine and Whitmore. When he calls a woman named Elizabeth Goldstein to collect payment for an unpaid debt, the call turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse sending him over the edge.
Written by Kathryn L. Scurry (USA)

Sifan made a sudden decision to get a divorce after years of monotonous marriage. The fight for her daughter’s custody exhausts her, but it is not the only fight she has to make.
Directed by Shawn S.X. Zou (Hong Kong)

Diana and Robert are high school sweethearts and plan to spend the rest of their lives together. One night during a proposal tragedy strikes when he accidentally falls to his death. Several years later while visiting his grave a mysterious woman shows up out of the blue and sudden unexplained deaths begin to occur as Diana tries to move on.
Directed by Kathryn L. Scurry (USA)

The story is about a woman who has a pregnancy-related depression and worries about her baby’s birthday, which had a bitter memory since that day! Directed by Muhammad Gharibi and Reza Sheikhlany (Iran)