Get excited and root for your favorite short films! The Best of Shorts Awards will be presented following the screening of jury-selected shorts. New this year, the winners will receive a $2,500 cash prize. The winner of the Best Overall Short Film will qualify for Academy Award consideration, as CIFF is now an Oscar-accredited festival for short films in the Animated and Narrative categories. The jurors will also select and present the inaugural award for the Best Short Documentary.
WINNER – Best Overall Short Film
BALCONY, Director Toby Fell-Holden
WINNER – Best Short Documentary
BROKEN – THE WOMEN'S PRISON OF HOHENECK (KAPUTT), Director Alexander Lahl / Volker Schlecht
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Best of Shorts finalists:
Countries
CanadaCurve
A woman clings to a smooth, curved surface.
Bon Voyage
Jonas and Silvia are thrown into the dramatic refugee crisis when they rescue some Syrians from a sunken ship in the Mediterranean, and…
Pickle
*WINNER: Audience Award, Best Documentary Short
Along with an obese chicken, a cat with a heart condition and a paraplegic possum, Pickle – a…
BROKEN – THE WOMEN’S PRISON OF HOHENECK
(KAPUTT)
WINNER – Best Short Documentary
Gabriele Stoetzer and Birgit Willschuetz were political inmates at Hoheneck Castle, a notorious women's prison, where they were forced…
MAMAN(S)
8-year-old Aida lives with her mother in an apartment near Paris.
BALCONY
WINNER – Best Overall Short Film
Director/screenwriter Toby Fell-Holden in attendance!
The Head Vanishes
(Une tête disparaît)
Jacqueline has lost her head, but who cares!
THE CULPRIT
(CULPRIT)
When a young man is accused of a crime, his prideful confession resonates in the face of injustice.
SHINING STAR OF LOSERS EVERYWHERE
In 2003, Japan was plunged into economic darkness, and its people needed a ray of hope.
