Cannes Short Film Festival 2021

Cannes Short Film Festival 2021 Winners

Best Short Film
The Forgotten Place by Oscar Rene Lozoya

Best Short Documentary
That Change I Have Seen by Samantha Grace Schulte

Best LGBT Short
Quinceañero by Justin Floyd

Best Horror Short
Strigoi by Aron Florian Anghel

Best Sci-Fi Short
Perfect Daughter by Jasleen Kaur

Best Animated Short
Thanks Again! by Yifan Jiang

Best Experimental Short
Yulí by Patrick Dionne, Miki Gingras

Best Short Short (under 5 minutes)
Corridor by Kenny Foo

Best Music Video
Close to Home by Hayden Kortemoore, Ryan Harris, Emmett Sparling

Audience Awards
Green Room: Thehrav by Abhishek Krishnan
Civil Disobedience: Perspective by Deon van Rooyen, Michael Adrian Lockett
Tell Your Friends To Pull Up by Emily Derlin
That Change I Have Seen by Samantha Grace Schulte
Upwell by J’aime Morrison

The Cannes Short Film Festival returned for an 8th year of showcasing the best in international independent and low-budget short filmmaking, running online exclusively on Eventive, with screenings available August 16th-30th. Tickets were available here

Screening Schedule

Shorts 1
Jot and Flick by Kailee Cristina Brown
Kaali Peeli by Neeraj Mehhta
Glub Glub by Devon Bortscher
The Boy And The Jazz by Flavio dos Santos
To The Max! by Vladimir Auque, Perle Tharinger
The Bell by Ryusei Emi
Quinceañero by Justin Floyd

Shorts 2
The Flag by Margaux Fazio, Manon Stutz
Down With Goliath by Ernetta D. Procter
Twin Flame by Amara Abbas
I Hope This Feeling Doesn’t Last by Marie Boulougouris
And… You Are? by Claire Bottalico
LAD. Closeness. by Yuliya Tomenchuk
Little Miss Hit Girl by Emily Hannah Ventimiglia
Cheyenne by Gerard Corporon

Documentaries 1
I Am Ukrainian Sculptor by Yulian Ulybin, Andrey Tartishnicov, Dmitriy Zhyla, Dmitriy Smirniy
The Floating Villages by Roop Sagar
Gullum by Mira Celik, Yigit Gurlek
Crescendo by Ryan Park
That Change I Have Seen by Samantha Grace Schulte

Experimental Shorts 1
The Box Station by Jinyoung Lee
Sojourners by Eva Lee
Pills In Water by Martin Baumann
Oneironautic by Vanessa Magic
2 Feet by Kalie Granier
The Eternal Memory by Diarmuid J Kennedy
Eleanor Of Illinois by Danielle Durchslag
Upwell by J’aime Morrison
Kuleshov in 2020 by Jamie Courville
The Builder by Kobi Vogman
Taboo: A Fruitless Love by Sonhara Eastman
Eó Mughna’s Lament by David Smith

Shorts 3
Thanks Again! by Yifan Jiang
The Click by Mary Smyth
Desert Sons by David M Gutel, Noah Johnson
Lost Notes by Christopher Poulain
Remember Me by Marta Jimenez

Experimental Shorts 2
The Dressing Of An Octopus by Nilufar Nuthalll
Emotions by Romeo
Once A Runner by Jacob Fuller
It Always Is by Tristan Cohen
Pointe A2B by Natasha Adorlee, Max Sachar
In The Land Of The Living by Sukh Dhaliwal
Of All The Universe by Alexander Kang
Vulgar by Rodrigo Fedele
Yulí by Patrick Dionne, Miki Gingras

Documentaries 2
Refugio by Rebecca Basaure
Streets Of Lagos by Dom West
The Time To Heal by Chris Baron
Cosplay Your Way: In Color by JaBarr Lasley
The Good Death by Dominique English

Shorts 4
Dreamlike Fish by Summer Choi
The Artist’s Way by Celeste Wylie
Tell Your Friends To Pull Up by Emily Derlin
Who’s Waldo by Phillip Ty Moore
Argo by Qoridze Giorgi

Shorts 5
Blinke by Julia van Oppen
Mother Finch by Joseph Fenton
I, Too, Am America by S-hekh Shem Hetep
Harvest Day by Carlos Guillermo Reynoso Lara
Shhh by Penny G LeLeux
Bonsoir by Athina Gendry
Hanakotoba by Franck Lahoui, Jowkid

Documentaries 3
Forest Flavors by Rachel Priebe
She (Elle) by Liliane Mutti
Fairies Baseball by Ruth Fowler
Tia Gong by Lee Jing Xin Enkainia
Rituals of Our Own by Abby Hoover

Sci-Fi Shorts
The Volunteer by Joe Simon
The Day I Left by Ikram Haizammuri
Salvager by Peter McCully
Jupiter’s Plum by Kate Nichols
Barzakh by Karina Dandashi
Odyssey by Christopher Phelps
Perfect Daughter by Jasleen Kaur
Horror Shorts
Corridor by Kenny Foo
Eostre by Sam Saxby
Strigoi by Aron Florian Anghel
The Rickety Man by Cameron Gallagher
Into The Darkness by Susan Bohl

Shorts 6
Civil Disobedience: Perspective by Deon van Rooyen, Michael Adrian Lockett
Birth Of Venus by Grace Sims
Trouble Is by EJ Gong
Woden: Let Me Explain To You The Language Of The Sword by Thomas Hacikoglu
The Reckoning by Trudy Rozani

Documentaries 4
Portrait of the Lion by Gordon Ling
Nancy by Noah Forbes, Taylor Mason
Red Shoes – Il Figlio Del Boss by Isabella Weiss di Valbranca
A Night In Antarctica by Flo Lemonnier
Tails On Ice by Miranda Currie
The Next Wave by Vegard Billing

Shorts 7
Reginald The Flying Llama by Lauren Richmond
How To Be Animated by Alex Zajicek
Day Dreamers by Chandler Clarke
The Forgotten Place by Oscar Rene Lozoya
My Lost Art by Sharon Lord
Green Room: Thehrav by Abhishek Krishnan
When The Tide Rises by Alex Jiang

Music Videos
VEXOH: A Memory Capsule by Cyrill Durigon
Undone by Pip Cowley
Love’s Worst Nightmare (ft. Liz Kretschmer) by Philippe Funk
(H)ours by Amy Sukserm
Goodbye Now by Christopher Peay
Daft Punk – Technologic by Denis Milani Adriano
Adrian Sutherland – Respect the Gift by Justin Stephenson
Suistamon Sähkö – Up’n Down by Kim Saarinen
Close to Home by Hayden Kortemoore, Ryan Harris, Emmett Sparling
Never Leave The Basement by Evan Blum

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