2021 ShortFest Archive
Short Films
Pari, an in-house tailor working in Kabul, Afghanistan, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses in order to save her job.
In competition for Best Live-Action Short Over 15 Minutes and Best Student International Short.
Nick is a foster child who faces a life-changing decision. He turns 18 next week. Will he give his mother another chance?
In competition for Young Cineastes Award.
A young mother struggles to parent her two rambunctious boys over the course of one hot summer day.
In competition for Best Student U.S. Short.
In a peaceful kitchen garden, the mother of a small tomato defuses a nocturnal fright by telling of the terrible fate of a knife.
In competition for Best Animated Short.
An honest and personal insight into the world of an overwhelmed new mother, who presumed that parental leave would become a sort of easy sabbatical. Pumped up with hormones and lacking sleep, the intense postpartum period reveals a chaotic and comic new phase in this woman's life.
In competition for Best Animated Short.
Captured over 14 years and across two continents Sing Me a Lullaby unravels the complex tensions between love and sacrifice. Told through the intertwined journeys of daughters and their mothers, this is a story about recovering familial history, healing inherited pain, and understanding that love comes in many forms.
In competition for Best Documentary Short.