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!
As a troubled teenage girl's attraction to a newly arrived Afghani girl grows, she...
The Head Vanishes
(Une tête disparaît)
Jacqueline has lost her head, but who cares! For her trip to the seaside, she's decided to take the train alone, like a...
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.
