Independent Shorts Awards

One man, one bed, one flat, one day, 12 streets of Arc de Triomphe, 12 hours for a daydream. This Sisyphus-tragedy revolves around multiple psychological dreams, about a self-abandoned man who had a biological clock reversed and lost his diurnal life.
Directed by Chu Jing Zhang (China)

After participating in a personality profile, Nadine finally faces her truest self.
Directed by Julie Stackhouse and Tom Schmitt (USA)

A fussy writer battles his large ego and high expectations to create a work of art.
Directed by Wade Shotter (New Zealand)

“Track 7” is a horror fantasy short film about a music track which has dark magic.
Directed by Andrea Tiatto (Malta)

When a vegan gets turned into a zombie, she finds herself in a world where her deeply ingrained lifestyle conflicts with the new-found need to eat flesh to survive.
Directed by CJ Barnes (Australia)

Imagine an America where ‘Black privilege’ is a real phenomenon and White mothers pray daily that their children make it home alive… Ask yourself, would ‘All Lives Matter’ then?…
Directed by Lawrence Watford (USA)

This is a short film dealing with suicide and how it affects the loved ones left behind still searching for answers. How you can love someone so much, but sometimes everything isn’t always enough to save someone.
Written by Annaliese von der Burg (USA)

Having lost his mother, a young man changed his house on a psychiatrist’s advice and with the help of his friends. After a while, he found that his neighbors were a mother and son whose name is the same as his. He heard the neighbor lady’s voice talking to his son and couldn’t put up with this situation at first but, then, he decided to role play and respond to her. The friends of the young man started to get worried about him on seeing his behaviors.
Directed by Pedram Ganji (Iran)

There was the last day of the action movie shooting. The film crew is set to finish the last scene with a trick and go home. Suddenly it was found out that stuntman refuses to perform the trick – jump through fire.
Directed by Mariya Yevtushenko (Ukraine)

8 or infinity? Life or love? What should you choose?
Directed by Andrew Vandaele (Netherlands)

“Super Cut Free Way” is a silent film made with an iPhone 5c and a combination of several creative video apps. It’s ethical and political aim is to think about a new kind of digital primitivism in cinema where technological determinations and limitations are faced as an expansion of imaginative possibilities. The flux of images, made during a two year period, follows a free poetic order documenting the medium’s experimental specificity.
Directed by Vasco Diogo (Portugal)

“Pillow Talk” is a web series about the quirks of monogamy and the complexities of human intimacy.
Created by Ezra Ani and Micah Smith (Israel)

This film is a conceptional conversion of  Hitchcock’s film. In fact, this is not Hitchcock’s film anymore. The audience face with a new experience of the bathroom sequence of “Psycho” with a new reading. The scene has been “de-horrified” by means of slow-motion technique and expanding the pictures during 15 minutes. It also makes new concepts of communication.
Directed by Saeed Nejati (Iran)