Miami Film Festival: Short Film Competition
The 25 finalists in the Festival’s IMDbPro Short Film Competition will compete for the Grand Jury selection of the best short film of the year, and the winning filmmaker will receive a $2,500 cash prize.
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- DirectorPeter DrewBroken Hill asks the question 'What does it mean to be an Aussie?' Following the history of the Cameleers , men who opened large areas of land in The Australian central desert using camels, and their struggle to be accepted as Australians in a country where their families have been for over a hundred years.
- DirectorDavid ToutevoixAlbertine Zullo
- DirectorAdrian CardenasStarsLauren E. BanksJustin MarkArcadio Ruiz-CastellanoAs Justin's relationship spirals to an end, he continues to have romanticized daydreams of better times, and seeks advice from his deceased father.
- DirectorEhsan Gharib
- DirectorMahdi FleifelStarsAtef AlshafeiJalal QaniryThymios KoukiosAlone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators, he is forced to make compromises merely to survive; his life of exile grows one day longer.
- DirectorHannah CheesmanStarsAmanda BrugelClare CoulterMatt MurrayAn iPhone-obsessed gym rat is momentarily released from her monotonous existence after a Robaxacet overdose calls into question her front of normalcy, forcing her to abandon her self-conscious isolation when she connects with an unlikely stranger.
- DirectorAna A. AlpízarTomás, a humble Cuban fisherman, is having a harsh winter at the open sea. For the sake of his family and against all odds, he needs to capture a fish tonight.
- DirectorGilles CuvelierPedro has found a job. A rare occurence in this period of crisis. That's good news for him and his family. It's true that the job is rather strange... But the important thing is to have a job... Isn't it ?
- DirectorDaisy JacobsChristopher WilderToby is selling his childhood home. Walking through empty rooms, he is assailed by memories of happiness unravelling, break-down, and the helplessness and rage of being child. Why do close ties break and loved ones leave? Can we ever know the full story? And what do you do when your family's gone?
- DirectorRodney LlaveriasStarsIsrael Arias GuerreroVictor Arcturus EstrellaElvira GrullónIn the heat of summer, the sexual awakening of an orphan boy evokes the curiosity of a nun.
- DirectorJocelyn StamatStarsMarisa TomeiMinnie DriverPaulo CostanzoA physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.
- DirectorJoshua BennettJuliana SchatzIn El Salvador, gang violence has overrun the country, disproportionately targeting children and teenagers, and turning it into 'The Murder Capital of the World'. The emergency medical unit, Los Commandos de Salvamento is one of the few institutions standing up to the gangs' reign of terror, and is a place of refuge and community for young people. 16 year old Mimi is a dedicated Commando caught in the violence. When her friend and fellow Commando, 12 year old Erick Beltran, is gunned down while serving, she faces pressure to leave El Salvador and Los Commandos, and head north for a better life.
- DirectorChintis LundgrenStarsTrevor BorisFrance CastelDrasko IvezicA hot young plumber Toomas breaks into the harmonious life of Manivald and his retired mother.
- DirectorMax BarbakowStarsAyrismary AriasWilliam IgorObserve the tenets of Taekwondo. Respect instructors and seniors. Never misuse Taekwondo. Be a champion of freedom and justice. Help to build a more peaceful world.
- DirectorRodrigo SorogoyenStarsMarta NietoBlanca ApilánezÁlvaro BalasWhile at home in her apartment with her own mother in Spain, a woman gets a phone call from her six-year-old son, who's on holiday in France with his father. Every parent's nightmare ensues.
- DirectorMichael T. FloresStarsEgly LarreynagaCarlos CordovaTim De La MotteA cleaning woman steals a Salvadoran Civil War map and hunts for a treasure in the hopes of reuniting with her son.
- DirectorÉléonore GoldbergA young woman decides not to answer a phone call from her grandfather, unaware that it will be his last. When he dies, she is overwhelmed with guilt and regret and can't sleep. But then she remembers a promise made long ago: to illustrate his wartime adventures as a member of the French Resistance.
- DirectorJulie RoyStarsMarie-Pier LabrecqueLise RoyTwo women investigators are waiting the arrival of a suspect, confined in a ghost car. There followed snatches of conversation all interspersed by the comments of their macho colleagues.
- DirectorCarol BeecherKevin D.A. KurytnikStarsPaul BoucherInouk TouzinStéphane PrévostSkin for Skin is a dark allegory of greed and spiritual reckoning set during the early days of the fur trade.
- DirectorMatthew RankinStarsRobert VilarMaurice KrankNew York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor. The Tesla World Light is a tragic fantasy about the father of alternating current, inspired by real events such as the inventor's run of bad luck as a businessman and his affection for a pet bird, which he loves "like a man loves a woman."
- DirectorSara WernerStarsJeffrey CreightneyCrystal CubriaTom FrankA year after 9/11, a pair of red glasses and other things lost on that horrific day haunt a World Trade Center worker who suffers from severe survivor's guilt.
- DirectorMichael ArcosAn amateur German female filmmaker becomes infatuated with a tire shop's mural.
- DirectorIlan Rozenfeld
- DirectorRafael Salazar MorenoStarsIsa FeliuAlex MallisPatricia Olvera"Unfinished, 2017 (Mixed media)" captures the decisive and inevitable moment in which an artist faces her greatest fear: to stop making art.