2020 ShortFest Archive
BIPOC Filmmakers
Films by Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers.
3 Generations 3 Days
When Ching is asked to help her recently arrived grandmother’s transition to life in a care home, she gains newfound understanding of the painful commitments the women of her family, herself included, are expected to maintain.
In competition for Best Live-Action Short Over 15 Minutes
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Running Time: 20
99¢ Dreams
A fragmented, intimate story of memory, consciousness, and lost time—told through the experiences of a few community members in a small town.
In competition for the Young Cineastes Award
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Running Time: 9
Adeline, The Great
A woke boarding school student questions her commitment to activism when she finds herself with no friends, countless enemies and facing some very serious accusations that threaten to get her expelled.
AUDIENCE FAVORITE
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Running Time: 12
Air Conditioner in Panmunjeom
A hapless repairman is called to fix a faulty A/C unit in the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
In competition for Best Comedy Short
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Running Time: 24
All That Perishes at the Edge of Land
Migrant laborers endure a precarious existence in the face of hazardous working conditions and unscrupulous employers in Hira Nabi’s docufiction portrait of the ship breaking yard in Gadani, Pakistan.
AUDIENCE + FILMMAKER FAVORITE
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Running Time: 31
Arabian Alien
Saad, a Muslim married man, gets over his depression after a space alien is introduced into his life.
In competition for the Best of the Festival Award
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Running Time: 16
Beer! Beer!
A Chinese expatriate and a native German saunter through the streets of Berlin after a long night out at the club in this droll “anti-romantic comedy.”
In competition for Best Comedy Short
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Running Time: 17
The Best Is Yet to Come
An arbitrary day in the lives of Rosa and Max, teenage best friends trying to evade summer holiday boredom in small town England.
FILMMAKER FAVORITE
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Running Time: 9
Birth Right
Natasha is participating in The Way Home Journey, organized to encourage immigration of descendants of Jews to Israel. On the second day, the group arrives to a Bedouin camp in the Israeli desert, where two soldiers join them for the night.
WINNER: Best Live-Action Short Over 15 Minutes
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Running Time: 25
Black Goat
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.
In competition for Best Student International Short
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Running Time: 12
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{BLACK title here} introduces James on his day off from work. Unfortunately, James' being off from work is not the only thing that is off. His current girlfriend, Shalom, and the girl he moved to LA with, Nastali, are both in need of him as he tries to find his way before he loses it all.
In competition for Best Comedy Short
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Running Time: 28
Broken Bird
Birdie is a biracial girl raised by her mom in a New Jersey suburb. She spends a visitation day with her father, and debates inviting him back into her life as she prepares for her Bat Mitzvah and adulthood.
In competition for Best Student U.S. Short
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Running Time: 10
Call Center Blues
Call Center Blues is a lyrical portrait of an unlikely community of U.S. deportees and their loved ones struggling to rebuild their lives in Tijuana, Mexico.
In competition for Best Documentary Short and the Bridging the Borders Award
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Running Time: 25
