The best shorts of 2020
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- DirectorRadu GaciuStarsGabriel CostinIonut GramaRalph InesonSecluded for ages inside his tower, a Knight is awoken from his slumber by a mysterious whisper.
- DirectorAnders Sømme HammerStarsJoey SiuRocky S. TuanThe story of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, told through a series of demonstrations by local protesters that escalate into conflict when highly armed police appear on the scene.
- DirectorJulia OrlikStarsZdzislaw WardejnIzabela KunaJan Jurkowski"I'm here!" the main character would like to scream, but she is unable to even ask for a glass of water. She is also unable to get up because the disease chained her to bed and made her dependent on others. She hears everything that her relatives say about her condition. The everyday life of the elderly woman is documented by a fixed camera, directed straight at her face. The other characters: husband, daughter, grandchildren, doctor or priest are only a procession of legs appearing in the frame and sentences spoken in the background. A piercing story about loneliness in the face of death presented from the perspective of a dying woman - although she does not say a word.
- DirectorAnders JacobssonMax MarklundStarsNils CzernichAnders ElissonMonica ElissonA short film about the inevitable ups and downs in life.
- DirectorAnthony GiacchinoStarsColette Marin-CatherineLucie FoubleIn Nazi-occupied France, resistance took courage. Seventy-five years later, facing one's ghosts may take even more.
- DirectorKris BowersBen ProudfootStarsKris BowersHorace Bowers Sr.Jim BurkeA virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
- DirectorMadeline SharafianA rabbit attempts to dig a burrow and learns there's no shame in asking for help.
- DirectorJesse Lewis ReeceStarsElijah W HarrisIshtar Currie-WilsonA couple's relationship becomes strained by mental health issues and feelings of obsession.
- DirectorJimmy GoldblumWhen Mohamad Hafez received a single-entry visa to study architecture in the United States, he realized if he couldn't return home to Syria, he could make home. A skilled architectural model-maker, he spent his years in exile sculpting life-like renditions of his Damascus neighborhood. When the civil war broke out and his parents fled to the United States as refugees, Mohamad's bottled-up frustration erupted on his models. In a fit of mania, he broke his artworks, leaving them shattered, bombed-out replicas of the Syrian buildings he saw on the news. And yet, when word of his broken pieces spread, Mohamad became an inspiration to refugees and immigrants in the diaspora who dreamed of homes that only existed in memories. 'Hiraeth' is a film about loss and love, responsibility and identity -- about homesickness for the places to which we can no longer return.
- DirectorHéloïse FerlayStarsViolette RenoirAlix DeshayAmandine BatailleLeft alone in the deepest of the summer, Malo and Zoe are trying their best to catch their mother's elusive eye.
- DirectorTadeusz LysiakStarsAnna DzieduszyckaDorota PomykalaSzymon Piotr WarszawskiA woman with limited hopes toils in a rundown motel in rural Poland, as a maid. Will the repeated visits of an interesting man, a truck driver, change the loneliness of her situation?
- DirectorEunhye Hong KimStarsJinah KangSang Gyun KimMother, Flower, is a story of a woman, Soo, who is struggling after a few months of delivering her first baby.
- DirectorUpamanyu BhattacharyyaKalp SanghviIn a version of Kolkata, India rendered unliveable by sea level rise, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger on the flooded streets.
- DirectorZach WoodsStarsWill FerrellWilliam Jackson HarperFred HechingerA severely depressed man reaches out for an emergency therapy session. He's not the only one who needs help.
- DirectorGiuseppe CacaceAlfredo FiorilloStarsFabio MoriciNews breaks out like a bomb. Because of a genetic mutation immigrants living in Italy seem to weigh far more, despite being visibly thinner.
- DirectorMagnus Igland MøllerPeter SmithMette TangeGod is a single parent and amateur programmer. He's working on project 'Earth' but never seems to get a break from the kids. One day though, he finally gets a breakthrough.