
Congratulations to the winners
June 2023

BEST FILM ~ SMALL SHORTS
Manimondo
MICHELE TOZZI (ITALY)
Big hands trigger power struggles and wars, tearing the planet to pieces.This shred of primordial matter keeps spinning in the universe. Will humanity be able to save itself from itself?

BEST FILM ~ MICRO SHORTS
Best Day Ever
Matt Partridge (United Kingdom)
A boy is about to experience one of those simple childhood memories that ensured he had the BEST DAY EVER.

PEOPLE'S CHOICE ~ SMALL SHORTS
The Space Between Us
Julianne Martin (Los Angeles, CA)
A lonely spaceman's desperate desire for company seems like it might come true when a mysterious ship full of people approaches his space station.

PEOPLE'S CHOICE ~ MICRO SHORTS
Scarepods
Tarik Begic (United States)
A jogger stops a crosswalk and finds a pair of mysterious earbuds on the ground.

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS ~ JUNE 2023
(in order of appearance at the screening)
1
The Discarded

Uli Meyer
United Kingdom
A cartoonist struggles with designing a cat and ends up through the looking glass.
4
Quiet Your Mind

Erin O’Shea & Jason C. Brown
United States
A short about the "simple" art of meditating.
7
Sisterly Love

Thea Balich, Tom Knight
United Kingdom
When Erin faces a tough time in the playground, Rose rises up in fierce defence of her little sister, but soon realises that all she needs is love.
10
ScarePods

Tarik Begic
United States
A jogger stops a crosswalk and finds a pair of mysterious earbuds on the ground.
13
KnightTime Story

Julie Huang, Kayla Rose, Christine Wendell
Clemson, SC
A tiny toy knight yearns to be like the stallion-riding hero of his favorite storybook.
16
Teething Problems

David Freedman
London, England
Tired of her housemate stealing her toiletries, Darcy takes a twisted revenge in this darkly comic parody of a 'How To' video.
19
All At Sea

Duncan Falconer
United Kingdom
Childhood dreams fade in adult reality, but maybe it’s not too late?
22
Murder

Graham Jock Robertson
United Kingdom
A man is awoken suddenly by a knock at his window.
25
The Squirrel Slip

Lori Swartz
United States
The true story of a girl, a stranger, and a squirrel.
28
The Space Between Us

Julianne Martin
Los Angeles, California
A lonely spaceman's desperate desire for company seems like it might come true when a mysterious ship full of people approaches his space station.
31
Resurrection under the Ocean

Serkan Aktaş
Turkey
"Resurrection under the Ocean" is about the resurrection of a man who was helplessly sinking to the bottom of the ocean, after falling to the bottom of the ocean, with a symbolic narrative.
34
Shitfaced

Jack E.K. Collier
Shoreline, Washington
An aspiring artist attempts to sketch her boyfriend only to find the dissatisfaction in her own work does more harm than good.
37
Taxidermie

Andreas Fink
Germany
David doesn't quite know yet how he wants to present himself in his upcoming exhibition. He has been told to smile. But actually he doesn't feel like it at all.
40
Best Day Ever

Matt Partridge
United Kingdom
A boy is about to experience one of those simple childhood memories that ensured he had the BEST DAY EVER.
2
Little Leaf

Mhaya Polacco
Brooklyn, NY
A short documentary following Kate and her pygmy goat Little Leaf and their sweet, storybook life.
5
YAMA

Ryan Russell, Luke Beatrice
Canada
YAMA Japanese Inspired Micro Short
8
The Last Man on Earth Sat Alone in a Room

Junyi Xiao
Pasadena, California
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door ...
11
Bixwad at the Diner

Al Julian
United States
Bixwad gets his money's worth at a local diner.
14
Hi, Daniel

Joshua Chislett
Canada
Daniel seeks reconciliation after his addiction takes him to his breaking point.
17
Pearl Dreams

Keriann Kwalik
Saratoga Springs, NY
Inspired by Jan Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring," stop motion daydreams of a pearl - if only the world was its oyster.
20
Voices

Dominic Rees-Roberts
United Kingdom
How do you prove your identity, when you don't know who you are?
23
Biopixels

Kristina Dutton
Inverness, CA
Shot at two cutting-edge research labs which specialize in the evolution of butterflies and moths, Biopixels is a short film exploring the world of evolutionary biology on the microscopic scale.
26
Girl, disrupted

Kasia Boniecka
France
A short documentary observation shot in the usually glamorous city of Cannes, that highlights the contrast between an iconic beauty and the mundane harshness of street life.
29
Hot Or Iced?

Anthony Chirco
Los Angeles, CA
A man's indecision process is shown as a surreal fight between two opposing sides of his brain in a coffee shop.
32
DORFENSTEIN'S MONSTER

Michael Dorfman, Emmett Dorfman, Maxwell Dorfman
North Hollywood, CA
Doctor Dorfenstein creates his monster, one piece at a time.
35
Omnitask

Mark Renken
United States
Your phone is always listening!
38
Pandora's Box

Teo Marinakis
Brooklyn, NY
After stealing Pandora's Box, a couple of outlaws must make their great escape à la Bonnie & Clyde as the Mafia and the FBI are close on their tail.
41
Flash of Love

Maddie Patrick
Los Angeles, CA
Finding love is hard ... especially with a kink.
3
The Falling Lovers

Chen-Yi Wu
Philadelphia, PA
Two lovers are falling from the sky. They keep asking each other for things so they will have some buffers and won't die when they hit the floor.
6
Dark Minor

Lilou Fogli
France
A woman desperately tries to escape her fate.
9
The Greetails

Tamara Joseph
Pepper Pike, OH
An outstanding sales pitch comes on the telly.
12
Bench Master

Jeremy Sless
Stevenson Ranch, California
A woman attempts to capture the best photo of herself but isn’t as alone as she thinks.
15
Objects from a Sixties Childhood

Cally Trench
United Kingdom
A very short animation film that reveals remembered objects from a 1960s childhood. Each object appears and disappears like a memory, often morphing into the next one, with occasional flashes of colour.
18
Hey, Can We Talk?

Sophia Jordan, Sebastian Segura, Via Taylor
United States
The text everyone dreads getting.
21
Dream Sequence

Glen Obear, René Bedolla, Ehmed Nauman
Madison, WI
The dreams of a mad scientist make for a memorable day in Chicago.
24
Geoff

Nick Flügge
United Kingdom
TAKE A TRIP INTO THE BASEMENT OF GEOFF'S MIND. SAFETY GEAR RECOMMENDED.
27
Pimple Popper

Dewey Violet
United States
A man finds a pimple on his face and decides to pop it.
30
NEPTUNE

Irma Čakarić
Boulder, CO
A simple story about a Betta fish, Neptune, who is given a pellet to eat. His eyes dilate, his breathing quickens, and his little fish-brain is about to be blown away because his owner fed him food that wasn't meant for him. A psychedelic trip ensues...
33
The School System

Jesse Roth
United Kingdom
How the school system is failing us.
36
Going Down

Nathaniel Henry
Fairfax, VA
Two guys loose their cool on an elevator and, and then it goes down.
39
MANIMONDO

Michele Tozzi
Italy
Big hands trigger power struggles and wars, tearing the planet to pieces.This shred of primordial matter keeps spinning in the universe. Will humanity be able to save itself from itself?