2020 ShortFest Archive
Women Filmmakers
Women at the helm.
Unfinished Business
A male stripper is hired for an unusual gig by some business women.
In competition for Best Midnight Short
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Running Time: 7
Wally Wenda
A woman sailing solo across the Atlantic finds herself on the brink of starvation and must use her wits to figure out her next meal.
In competition for Best U.S. Short
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Running Time: 5
Wanted: Strong Woman
Nadege lacks the confidence to get what she wants from life... until the day she discovers a new passion that awakens the beast inside her.
In competition for Best International Short
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Running Time: 15
The Water Will Carry Us
An elegy to the countryside, an aging carpenter carries a hand-made mirror over and across the hills and streams of Zhejiang in search of a lost client.
In competition for Best International Short
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Running Time: 30
Welcome Strangers
Every night at 6pm, detained immigrants are legally released from a for-profit ICE facility onto unfriendly, industrial streets near Denver, Colorado. The men and women, most of them asylum-seekers, have little idea where they are and have nothing more than the clothes on their backs. Sarah Jackson, a young woman, searches the... Read More
Running Time: 21
What Did You Dream?
It’s the summer school holidays in 1990 South Africa, and 11-year-old Boipelo is back at her grandmother Koko’s four-roomed house in the Pretoria township, Atteridgeville. It’s a point of uncertainty for a country on the brink of democracy, but also for Boipelo, who will be attending a multiracial school soon. In competition... Read More
Running Time: 20
What We Were
Standing in the middle of a living room, Holger feels like a stranger in a house that used to be his home. Together with his ex-wife Sigrid and their daughters Silvi and Lara, he finds himself staring at Poldi, the freshly deceased family rabbit. The two girls decide that Poldi deserves a proper funeral, and, for the sake of... Read More
Running Time: 13
When Birds Fly Low
Since the disappearance of her father, eleven-year-old Elf has taken care of her little brother Jonas. Meanwhile, their mother withdraws more and more often upstairs in the house. As time passes, Elf crawls into her own world, where, peering over the water, she continues to yearn for her father. In competition for Best Student... Read More
Running Time: 13
Why Slugs Have No Legs
Slugs have a hard time keeping up with the pace of life in the city of insects. When a financial crisis hits, the industrious bees only see one solution.
In competition for Best Animated Short
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Running Time: 11
A Woman
A young, modern mother struggles to find her place in Baku, Azerbaijan, a place simultaneously Muslim and secular, progressive as it is traditional, and, like her, at a crossroads of seeming contradictions. Navigating the trappings of both conventional and modern female roles, she straddles the space between choice and... Read More
Running Time: 13