2020 ShortFest Archive
Award Winners
An index of ShortFest 2020 award winners.
Matriochkas
Anna is 16, and lives with her young mother, Rebecca. It is the end of another summer defined by her mom's flings and conquests, but during which Anna begins to discover her own sexuality. As Anna learns she is pregnant, her mother sees herself in her daughter, at the same age, facing the same choices. WINNER: Great Palm... Read More
Running Time: 24
The Midsummer's Voice
During a summer vacation, Lei, a young Chinese opera student, beings to experience changes in his voice.
SPECIAL MENTION: Best Live-Action Short 15 Minutes and Under
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Running Time: 15
The Nights Alone
Graziella, a woman with no history, is hired as a maid by a family of wealthy bourgeois living in a private mansion isolated from the city. A monstrous thing is locked up, an old beast, only waiting for death, even forgetting himself. Their meeting will cause the rebirth of Graziella's desire. Presented with the kind permission... Read More
Running Time: 30
Pharmacopeia
The story of a quirky, Black Pharmacist drowning in student loan debt, who rebels against the system and becomes the drug dealer Pharmacy School never taught her.
SPECIAL MENTION (for Stylistic Vision and Emerging Talent): Best U.S. Short
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Running Time: 5
The Present
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his daughter, Yasmine, set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between the soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
WINNER: GoE Bridging the Borders Award
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Running Time: 24
SH_T Happens
The caretaker exhausted by everything, his frustrated wife and one totally depressed deer. Their mutual despair leads them to absurd events, because... shit happens all the time. Presented with the kind permission of ARTE: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC-019277/courts-a-domicile/ SPECIAL MENTION: Best Animated & Best Student... Read More
Running Time: 13
The Sleepwalkers
Having found themselves in a delusional state, trying to discover if they are sleepwalking, a couple on the cusp of starting a family, dreaming of the perfect future, are made to face the consequences of their willful blindness.
WINNER: Best Midnight Short
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Running Time: 33
Stay Awake, Be Ready
A motorbike crash happening before the street stalls on a street corner was embedded in the mysterious story of three young men.
SPECIAL MENTION (for creative vision): Great Palm Springs CVB Best of the Festival Award
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Running Time: 14