Best Short Films - 2020
My favourite live-action short films seen in festivals in 2020.
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- DirectorSameh AlaaStarsNourhan AhmedYousef ElrashidySeif HemedaAfter an 82-day separation, Adam travels a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, whatever it takes.Cannes 2020
- 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.Cannes 2020
- DirectorKeisha Rae WitherspoonStarsKoko Zauditu-SelassieKherby JeanJesus MitchellA film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami's annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R. I. P. T-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead.Berlinale 2020
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsTilda SwintonAgustín AlmodóvarMiguel AlmodóvarA woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment.Venice 2020
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsJames AdamsStuart AndersonMcKinley BexA masked mob cruelly punish a lone masked man in this nightmarish short film.
- DirectorAnthony NtiStarsPrince AgorteyMatilda EnchilGoua Robert GrovoguiYoung Matilda and Prince are taken on a life-changing trip by a stranger. Kids, gangsters and Ghana's vibrant coast as you've never seen them.Clermont-Ferrand 2020 (Grand Prix)
- DirectorDylan Holmes WilliamsStarsPatsy FerranLeo SuterBobby SchofieldRevenge is best served a cappella. A bullied teenage girl leads a glee club on a trail of destruction against her high school enemies.Sundance 2020
- DirectorKristoffer BorgliStarsKate AdamsAl WarrenKailee McGeeA former cult member listens to music for the first time---you won't believe her reaction.Sundance 2020
- DirectorLillah HallaStarsAldo BuenoAmanda DouradoNathally FonsecaIn a Brazilian village infested with piranhas, Nanã and Mel are fast growing into adolescence as they dream of ways of protecting themselves against a seemingly inescapable violence.Cannes 2020
- DirectorMorad MostafaStarsHalimaWardAmal Salah"Halima", a Sudanese henna painter living in Egypt. She goes to one of Giza's local areas to prepare a bride for her wedding and her 7 years old daughter "Ward" accompanies her and starts to wander around and discover the place.Clermont-Ferrand 2020
- DirectorGeorgi M. UnkovskiStarsSasko KocevXhevdet JashariSimeon Moni DamevskiAfter an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father.Sundance 2020
- DirectorBérangère Mc NeeseStarsHéloïse VolleVictoire Du BoisGuillaume DuhesmeAnna, sixteen, lives with Rebecca, her mother. Anna started to discover her own sensuality. When Anna learns that she is pregnant, her mother sees herself in her, at the same age.Palm Springs 2020
- DirectorElvira LindStarsOscar IsaacAlia ShawkatBrian PetsosWhen a corrections officer is transferred to the letter room, he soon finds himself enmeshed in a prisoner's deeply private life.
- DirectorSonia K. HadadStarsElaheh AfshariSadaf AsgariMasih KazemiA teenage girl involves in the process of delivering a pack of cocaine to its client, and she got stuck in a weird cycle of occurrences.
- DirectorNaïla GuiguetStarsDustin MuchuvitzFélix MaritaudRaya MartignyFollows the events of DJ Dustin over the course of one wild night at a warehouse party and the morning that follows.
- DirectorSofia AlaouiStarsFouad OughaouMoha OughaouOumaïma OughaouAbdellah, a young shepherd living in the mountains, is forced to brave the snow blocking him in order to get food and save his cattle. Once he gets to the village, he faces a supernatural phenomenon.
- DirectorKonstantinos AntonopoulosStarsAngeliki DimitrakopoulouGiorgos GallosIsavella AnagnostopoulouTrapped in a seemingly dull family vacation, Dimitra, Dimitris and their two daughters will have to find a way out of a secluded island in the Mediterranean, when confronted with the unexpected end of the world.
- DirectorDusty MancinelliMadeleine Sims-FewerStarsMaya HarmanHeather AllinDeragh CampbellA ten-year-old girl struggles with the residual trauma of her sexual abuse.
- DirectorYilmaz ÖzdilStarsAdil AbdolrahmanMehmet Ali ArpaEngin Emre DegerAvdel feeds his family with the salary of the donkey Bozo who works in Mardin in Turkey. It also houses his nephew Salih, who fled Syria. When "Bozo is retired" and Avdel has to find a younger donkey; loyal Salih tries to help.