Short Film Competition
Curated from thousands of entries, these short films highlight unique voices from around the world. These films are from emerging and established filmmakers pushing the form of storytelling in inventive, challenging and sometimes hilarious ways — all in 40 minutes or less.
A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY
2020 USA 17 MIN – DIRECTOR Sean Glass
A couple stop through a motel in unfamiliar territory. An unreliable memory reveals the irrelevance of identity.
BLACK GOAT
2019 USA | Nepal 11 MIN – DIRECTOR Yi Tang
Pasang, a new girl at a nunnery, has her first period after hearing a late-night ghost story. She keeps it secret until she bleeds at a prayer session. She believes that she has been cursed and needs to sacrifice a black goat to avoid further misfortune.
BLOCKS
2020 USA 11 MIN – DIRECTOR Bridget Moloney
An existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit toy blocks.
BREAKING GROUND
2020 Rwanda 13 MIN – DIRECTOR Ines Girihirwe
Mistreated in her relationship, a young woman decides to change the course of her life, let go for once and do as she pleases.
THE CHICKEN
2020 USA 13 MIN – DIRECTOR Neo Sora
On an unseasonably hot day in November, a Japanese immigrant in New York City and his visiting cousin decide to butcher a live chicken for dinner.
CHILD OF THE LAND (KAMA’ĀINA)
2019 USA 16 MIN – DIRECTOR Kimi Howl Lee
After suffering abuse from her stepfather, a queer 16-year-old girl, Mahina, must navigate life on the streets until she eventually finds refuge at Hawaiʻi’s largest organized homeless encampment.
CHINESE WALL
2020 Argentina 17 MIN – DIRECTOR Santiago Barzi
Fernando receives some baffling news which upsets him profoundly, but when he shares it with his loved ones, their reactions are not as he expected. An odd debate ensues, affecting everyone involved.
CLAIRE AT SEVEN MONTHS
2019 USA 19 MIN – DIRECTOR Jacob Halpren
A pregnant woman heads down to her family’s beach condo in Florida to get away for the weekend.
CORRESPONDENCIA
2020 Spain | Chile 19 MIN – DIRECTOR Carla Simón, Dominga Sotomayor
Two young filmmakers discuss present and past family, heritage, maternity and film. The personal and profound reflections are suddenly echoed by the political emergency of a country.
DAVID
2020 USA 11 MIN – DIRECTOR Zach Woods
David needs help.
DUSTIN
2020 France 20 MIN – DIRECTOR Naïla Guiguet
In a warehouse club we meet Dustin, a young transgender and their crew. As the night draws on, collective hysteria morphs into sweet melancholy and euphoria into yearning for tenderness.
THE END OF SUFFERING (A PROPOSAL)
2020 Greece 14 MIN – DIRECTOR Jacqueline Lentzou
Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony.
THE FEELING
2019 USA 17 MIN – DIRECTOR Bridey Elliott
Brandi and Alex are sibling realtors at the top of their game… until they meet their biggest fan and everything they care about is put in jeopardy.
FOREVER
2020 USA 7 MIN – DIRECTOR Mitch McGlocklin
AI judgement causes a period of introspection.
GRAMERCY
2019 USA 22 MIN – DIRECTOR Pat Heywood, Jamil McGinnis
A young New Jersey native returns to his hometown where his ongoing battle with depression becomes a poetic exploration of brotherhood and personal struggle.
HEADING SOUTH (雁南飞)
2020 USA | China 12 MIN – DIRECTOR Yuan Yuan
Eight-year-old Chasuna travels from her home on grassland to visit her father in the big city. During her father’s birthday party, Chasuna finds out he has remarried to a Chinese woman.
IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN’S NAME
2020 USA 12 MIN – DIRECTOR Em Weinstein
Michael, a young trans man, returns home to the rural American West after years of estrangement from his parents.
IN SUDDEN DARKNESS
2020 USA 13 MIN – DIRECTOR Tayler Montague
A slice of life film set in the Bronx, New York. A working-class family tries to stay afloat in the midst of a city-wide blackout.
L.A. ROLL
2019 USA 17 MIN – DIRECTOR Helki Frantzen
L.A. ROLL follows members of Sk8 Mafia, a crew of Los Angeles-based dance skaters, as they reflect on the closure of their beloved home rink and seek out a new rink despite adversity and setbacks.
LITTLE CHIEF
2019 USA | Seneca | Cayuga Nation 11 MIN – DIRECTOR Erica Tremblay
It’s just another typical day at a rural elementary school on a reservation in Oklahoma. It’s a world that is stacked against them, but Sharon shows up each day to guide her fifth grade students through it.
LONELY BLUE NIGHT
2020 USA 15 MIN – DIRECTOR Johnson Cheng
The consequences of a mother’s decision to leave her daughter in the care of an American homestay family are unearthed when they reunite for a dinner on one lonely blue night.
MAALBEEK
2020 France 15 MIN – DIRECTOR Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
Sabine is looking for a missing image: a day that has left its mark forever and that everyone remembers but her. But maybe this absence is what allows her to move on with her life?
NOUR
2020 TUNISIA 14 MIN – DIRECTOR Rim Nakhli
Nour and Adem set off in search of their father who they have not seen him for a long time. They cross the city to arrive at the appointment place.
PILLARS
2019 USA 18 MIN – DIRECTOR Haley Elizabeth Anderson
One Sunday at church, 12-year-old Amber experiences her first kiss, a moment of innocence that triggers a series of awakenings: sexual, emotional and religious.
POSTPARTUM (WOCHENBETT)
2020 Germany 4 MIN – DIRECTOR Henriette Rietz
The animated film POSTPARTUM is about the chaotic phase in the life of a new mother. Pumped up with hormones and lacking sleep, this intense time has burned deep into the protagonist’s heart.
RUBBED IN PINK
2019 Colombia 11 MIN – DIRECTOR Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani
The daughter of a fashion photographer is starting to discover her femininity. When she follows her mother’s footsteps, she notices an unexpected change in her body.
SWIMMER (BADAREN)
2020 Sweden 13 MIN – DIRECTOR Jonatan Etzler
There’s a man floating around in an indoor swimming pool. The police order him to get out, to be arrested, but the man refuses. SWIMMER is a humorous short film about a dramatic arrest that turns into an anticlimax.
T
2019 USA 14 MIN – DIRECTOR Keisha Rae Witherspoon
A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R.I.P. T-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead.
THERE’S CAKE (SENSE POSTRE)
2020 Spain 13 MIN – DIRECTOR Clàudia Vernis
Marina is surrounded by food, and it also occupies many of her passing thoughts. Today is Saint John – and the hottest and longest day of the summer. Her mother has made chocolate cake to celebrate.
THEY SALIVATE (ILS SALIVENT)
2020 France 19 MIN – DIRECTOR Ariane Boukerche
THEY SALIVATE is the story of a kiss. A couple kiss each other in their deserted living room. The party begins and one guest drinks the couple’s last kiss.
TIGER AND OX (호랑이와 소)
2019 South Korea 8 MIN – DIRECTOR Seunghee Kim
What does divorce mean to women in Korean patriarchal society? Is a fatherless family a failure? In order to find the answer to these questions, a single mother and her daughter start a conversation.
UMBILICAL
2019 USA 6 MIN – DIRECTOR Danski Tang
An animated documentary exploring how the filmmaker’s mother’s abusive relationship with her father shaped her own experiences in a boarding school in China.
THE VISIT
2019 Iran 14 MIN – DIRECTOR Azadeh Moussavi
After six months, Elaheh is finally allowed to visit her husband, who is a political prisoner. Elaheh and her little daughter Tara have one single day to prepare for this important meeting.
Meet The Press Film Festival at AFI FEST
A partnership with NBC’s Meet the Press, this showcase of short documentaries features a wide range of compelling stories and highlights some of the most pressing issues facing our society. Each shorts program has a Q&A moderated by an NBC News journalist.
BLACKFEET BOXING: NOT INVISIBLE
2020 USA 29 MIN – DIRECTOR Kristen Lappas, Tom Rinaldi
As the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic affects tribal communities, a group of Blackfeet women tackle the threat head-on by practicing and training in self-defense.
BREACH OF TRUST
2019 USA 24 MIN – DIRECTOR Mishal Mahmud
BREACH OF TRUST explores the University of Southern California’s institutional cover-up involving the sexual misconduct of former full-time gynecologist George Tyndall. The story is anchored by the survivors, who after being wronged by the university continue their fight for institutional change.
CHURCH AND THE FOURTH ESTATE
2020 USA 32 MIN – DIRECTOR Brian Knappenberger
A reporter uncovers a file that reveals a shocking series of child-abuse allegations in Idaho’s Boy Scouts, which rattles the community and implicates the Mormon church. The story reveals long-running crimes that threaten to bankrupt the Boy Scouts.
DO NOT SPLIT
2020 USA | Norway 20 MIN – DIRECTOR Anders Hammer
During the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, a series of evening demonstrations escalate into conflict when heavily armed police appear on the scene.
GAMES OF SURVIVAL: A CULTURE PRESERVED IN ICE
2019 USA 16 MIN – DIRECTOR Nicholas Natale
The events at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics — like the Four Man Carry and the Knuckle Hop — won’t be familiar to most Americans in the Lower 48, but they are rooted in traditional Eskimo culture and pure Americana.
GLOVES OFF
2020 USA 15 MIN – DIRECTOR Ugonna Okpalaoka, Nadine Natour
GLOVES OFF follows the story of Tiara Brown, a young police officer who forges new ways to serve her community by day, then laces up and fights to make a name for herself in the boxing ring by night.
LIONS IN THE CORNER
2019 USA 9 MIN – DIRECTOR Paul Hairston
In Virginia, Scarface started Streetbeefs in his backyard to combat gun and knife violence in the area. Soon, it turned into something much more.
THE LOST ASTRONAUT
2019 USA 12 MIN – DIRECTOR Ben Proudfoot
In 1963, Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to be NASA’s first African-American astronaut, until suddenly he wasn’t.
MY BROTHER’S KEEPER
2020 UK 21 MIN – DIRECTOR Laurence Topham
MY BROTHER’S KEEPER is about the remarkable friendship between former Guantánamo detainee, Mohamedou Ould Salahi, and his one-time American prison guard, Steve Wood, who gradually became convinced of his innocence.
OIL & WATER
2020 Canada 14 MIN – DIRECTOR Anjali Nayar
Facing imminent takeover of ancestral lands, the women in the Turkana region of Kenya stand up against oil giant Tullow. Despite resistance from the men in their community, they continue to fight for their way of life.
A PRAYER FOR JOSHUA JACKSON
2018 USA 21 MIN – DIRECTOR Ryan Heffernan, Grayson Schaffer and Kahlil Hudson
What do you do when someone says your dream is over? Race car driver Joshua Jackson went through something that would break even the toughest of souls, but Jackson managed to come out even more determined.
STATUS PENDING
2020 USA 26 MIN – DIRECTOR Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz
With immigration law under attack, five first-generation immigration lawyers — who call themselves “The Tribe” — strive to help immigrants obtain safety and status in the United States.
SUSTAINED OUTRAGE
2019 USA 26 MIN – DIRECTOR Gabriela Cavanagh
Eight months after the family-owned Charleston Gazette-Mail won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, the Gazette-Mail grappled with a painful reality: bankruptcy ahead of a sale.
TALL TALES WITH TRUE QUEENS
2020 USA 10 MIN – DIRECTOR Kristina Budelis, Leandro Badalotti
Drag Queen Story Hour features drag queens reading stories to kids in libraries and schools. Amidst a building controversy, we learn that kids and drag queens have more in common than you might think.
TANGLED ROOTS
2020 USA 19 MIN – DIRECTOR Samantha Knowles
TANGLED ROOTS follows Kentucky State Representative Attica Scott as she fights to pass a bill that would dismantle a system of discrimination against black people who are penalized for something seemingly innocuous — their hair.
THE TORTURE LETTERS
2020 USA 12 MIN – DIRECTOR Laurence Ralph
One of Laurence Ralph’s first memories of the police is when a plainclothes officer harassed his family. Now a Princeton anthropology professor, Ralph traces his story to the entrenched practices of torture by the Chicago Police.
UNITED STATES OF JOE’S
2019 USA 21 MIN – DIRECTOR Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
In rural Utah, a valley of world-class bouldering is nestled among a conservative community of Mormons, cowboys and coal miners. When punk rock climbers show up, cultures clash, but the story doesn’t end there.
VOTE NEIL
2020 USA 18 MIN – DIRECTOR Honora Talbott
Neil is a first-time politician running for State House. Mike is his fiancé and campaign manager searching for purpose. An intimate portrait about politics, the Southern LGBTQ experience and one incredible love story.
WHEN THE NEWS HITS HOME: A YEAR INSIDE THE CAPITAL GAZETTE
2019 USA 21 MIN – DIRECTOR Moises Saman
The 2018 shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper left five people dead, exposing not only the danger many journalists face but reminding the public of the essential role local journalism plays in communities large and small.
AFI Conservatory Showcase
A collection of 15 short fiction films from the most recent graduates of the AFI Conservatory.
DÍA DE LAS CARPAS
A group of boys help an undocumented girl get to the beach to reunite with her family, unaware of her magical secret that will change their lives forever. DIR João Dall’Stella. SCR Marina Kato Hoag. CAST Tony Garcia, Camila Olivera, Hector Atreyu Ruiz. USA
ELLE
In the midst of her sexual awakening, 16-year-old Elle finds herself in love with her best girlfriend who is about to move out of town. DIR Nicole Vanden Broeck. SCR Asher Jelinsky, Nicole Vanden Broeck. CAST Sarah Sawyer, Ron Dadon. USA
FLECK
An Asian-American teenager at a traditional prep school longing to fit in is forced to choose between her morality or belonging to the school’s elite. DIR Jing Ai Ng. SCR Jing Ai Ng. CAST Stacy Chu, Alyssa Latson, Sami Sandzimier. USA
FURTHEST FROM
In 1999, Novato, California, Jessie is enjoying what little time she has left with her best friend, Lucas. The trailer park they live in will be forced to evacuate as a result of MTBE water contamination. DIR Kyung Sok Kim. SCR Rex Xavier Reyes II. CAST Amanda Christine, Tucker Chandler. USA
JULIET
A transgender teenager battles prejudice and her own self-doubt to audition for the female lead in her high school’s play. DIR Ira Storozhenko. SCR Wilandrea Blair. CAST Reise Alexander, Marc Hills, Trew Mullen. USA
LUCE
In a synesthesia of classical music, death and sex, Adriano finds love in a time of grief. DIR Ciro Apicella. SCR Ciro Apicella. CAST Josh Brodis, Elise Silver, Peter Elbling. USA
MI AMIGO
A hitman attends the funeral of the crime associate and best friend he executed as he searches for forgiveness. After being taunted by his corpse victim in a living room death tableau, he instead finds street justice. DIR Darius Dawson. SCR Veronica Felicity Johnson. CAST Leonardo Santiati, Michael Flores, Cesar Hernandez. USA
THE SPEECH
May 2003, Beijing, China. Under pressure from the WHO, the Chinese government announced the SARS outbreak is real. During the ensuing lockdown, three eight-year-old girls have to find a way to make sense of the world. DIR Haohao Yan. SCR Haohao Yan. CAST Harmonie He, Gloria Xiong, Chedi Chang. USA
A STRANGE CALM
When 12-year-old Rosie and Miles encounter a strange man on the 4th of July in 1974, their journey to watch the fireworks on the outskirts of town becomes an unexpected fight for survival. DIR Austin Rourke. SCR Austin Rourke. CAST Giovanna Bush, Jacob Sandler, Price Carson. USA
TAPE
A 16-year-old ice hockey player on an all girls’ high school team tries to repair her relationship with her teammate, while preparing for the team’s pre-qualifying game. DIR Jojo Erholtz. SCR Shuhan Fan. CAST Brittany Giles, Sarah Sawyer, Joe Coffey. USA
TIL LIFE DO US PART
Two 70-year-old best friends with a pact to kill themselves by their 71st birthday learn that life is worth living with a great friend. DIR Aaron Goldenberg. SCR Ariane Hahusseau, Aaron Goldenberg. CAST G.W. Bailey, Miles Anderson. USA
VEIL
When Leila, a Muslim teenager, shows up to her senior prom in a conservative and modest dress, her beliefs, culture and sense of identity gets tested. DIR Zahra Golafshani. SCR Zahra Golafshani. CAST Jennalyn Ponraj, Danielle Larracuente, Christopher Avila. USA
WITCHIN
Ridiculed in the witch world and sent to the human world to find the elusive BDE, a young witch confronts her biggest tormentor – her kind spirit. DIR Christina Diamantara. SCR Christina Diamantara. CAST Madeleine Coghlan, Genevieve Kennedy, Keli Daniels. USA
THE WORLD AS SHE KNOWS IT
Mia’s father is having an affair. She does not know whether to confront her father, tell her mother, or keep the secret to herself. DIR/SCR Chris Kingsleigh. CAST Alyssa Latson, Jhey Castles, Joshua McHugh. USA
YOUR ONE AND ONLY
Returning home after an abortion, Sophie finds her husband cheating on her. Overwhelmed, she invites his mistress to lunch in order to take her revenge. DIR Olesia Biletska. SCR Olesia Biletska. CAST Caitlin Gerard, Travis Hammer, Chloe Ray Warmoth. USA
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