The mission of the Cannes Short Film Festival is to screen some of the most innovative international short films.

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Award Winners Winter Screenings 2023

Best Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Parting Out by Susan Buster Thomas

Best Short Film: Jury Award
Le Magasin des Compliments by Titouan Laporte

Best Short Film: Audience Award
Pimenta by Naja Pereira

Best Student Short: Festival Director’s Award
Priscilla: Lose Control by Tia Annandale

Best Student Short: Jury Award
Beau by Sofía Bayardo Rodríguez

Best Student Short: Audience Award
Reality Heist by Olivier Lemery

Best Short Feature: Festival Director’s Award
The Return Of The Hummingbird Women by Patricia Kaersenhout

Best Short Feature: Jury Award
The Orphans by Céleste Clement

Best Short Feature: Audience Award
#screenlife by Antonis Karathanasopoulos

Best Short Documentary: Festival Director’s Award
The Time Is Now by Jason Borkland

Best Short Documentary: Jury Award
Bravo Marcel: The Century Climber by Hannes Tell

Best Short Documentary: Audience Award
Runner’s High by Isidro Hurtado, Anthony Roberts, Tom Stiefermann

Best LGBT Short: Festival Director’s Award
Stood Up by Maggie Perrotta

Best LGBT Short: Jury Award
The Places We Won’t Walk by Adam Tyree

Best LGBT Short: Audience Award
Marck Angel: Justice by R.E.D.

Best Horror Short: Festival Director’s Award
Virgil by Christopher Stevens

Best Horror Short: Jury Award
Burlington Paranormal by Zachary Eli Lint

Best Horror Short: Audience Award
Anya by Chris Davies

Best Sci-Fi Short: Festival Director’s Award
Paranoia by Igor Volkov

Best Sci-Fi Short: Jury Award
Pale Blue Dot by Dimitar (Mitko) Stafidov

Best Sci-Fi Short: Audience Award
Daisy by Torbjörn Edwall

Best Animated Short: Festival Director’s Award
Lost Sheep by Lukas Rooney

Best Animated Short: Jury Award
Stories To Be Remembered by David Calderon

Best Animated Short: Audience Award
The Algonquin Bridge by The Holy Gasp

Best Experimental Short: Festival Director’s Award
Fireflies of the Night: A Dance Of Bioluminescence by Artur Gadzhiev

Best Experimental Short: Jury Award
The Noise My Leaves Make by Tia-Monique Uzor

Best Experimental Short: Audience Award
Skatepocalypse by Matthew Mendenhall

Best Comedy Short: Festival Director’s Award
Art Of Crossing by Tobiasz Wałkiewicz

Best Comedy Short: Jury Award
The Last Bee On Earth by Nick Flugge

Best Comedy Short: Audience Award
Curtains Down: The Last Rod by John Hebert

Best Short Short: Festival Director’s Award
Adrift by Lee Ann Cone

Best Short Short: Jury Award
One With The Elements by Alexandra Karadzhova

Best Short Short: Audience Award
Causal Leaker by Paloma González H

Best Music Video: Festival Director’s Award
Zeke Finn: Long Story Short by René Villar-Rios, Victor Palm

Best Music Video: Jury Award
Echo Party by Lindsey Nico Mann

Best Music Video: Audience Award
Better Be Alive by Michał Oziewicz

2023 Screenings

Shorts 1
A Device To Save The World by Walter David Jones, Kevin Michael Jones
Skin In The Game by Kurt Kubicek
Le Magasin des Compliments by Titouan Laporte
Stood Up by Maggie Perrotta
#screenlife by Antonis Karathanasopoulos

Shorts 2
Severina by Laura Barbosa Rossi
Beau by Sofía Bayardo Rodríguez
Art Of Crossing by Tobiasz Wałkiewicz
Pimenta by Naja Pereira
A Daring Act by Michelle Malley Campos
The Return Of The Hummingbird Women by Patricia Kaersenhout

Experimental Shorts
Fireflies of the Night: A Dance Of Bioluminescence by Artur Gadzhiev
Messages from the Marsh by Amy Kaczur
Causal Leaker by Paloma González H
Adrift by Lee Ann Cone
The Noise My Leaves Make by Tia-Monique Uzor
Dolores, A Triptych by Gina Ann Margillo
Bellingham’s Belief by Tom Salvaggio
Haut by Marta Anti
Back To Me by Sophie Blondy
Creatura by Ford Mckeown Larose, Phethsari Pathammavong
Skatepocalypse by Matthew Mendenhall

Documentaries 1
One With The Elements by Alexandra Karadzhova
Gearheads by Dan Abrusci
Relocated by Mykola Kaparnyk
The Relay: Behind the Medals by Kimberley Ann Surin
Earth Riot by Immo Klink
Bravo Marcel: The Century Climber by Hannes Tell

Shorts 3
Meet Mr. Teeny of Hooper’s Creek by Patricia Allison Bradley
Curtains Down: The Last Rod by John Hebert
Lies by Rachel Taggart

Parting Out by Susan Buster Thomas

Sci-Fi and Horror Shorts
Paranoia by Igor Volkov
Anya by Chris Davies
Reality Heist by Olivier Lemery
Blonsh by James Werner
Virgil by Christopher Stevens
Pale Blue Dot by Dimitar (Mitko) Stafidov
Pete & Re-Pete by Martha Louise Van Garza
Daisy by Torbjörn Edwall
Burlington Paranormal by Zachary Eli Lint

Animated Shorts
The Algonquin Bridge by The Holy Gasp
Stories To Be Remembered by David Calderon
Pirouette by Ciara Borgards
Manimondo by Michele Tozzi
Memories Of An Apple Tree by Linara Mirgaliyeva
Once Upon A Fact by Vincent Scalera
Lost Sheep by Lukas Rooney
Tales of Zale: Flickering Lights by Sif Savery

Shorts 4
Perhaps We Wrong Them by John Scheibe
The Last Bee On Earth by Nick Flugge
Avast Ye Scallywag by Chris Spinas
The Places We Won’t Walk by Adam Tyree
The Orphans by Céleste Clement

Documentaries 2
The Time Is Now by Jason Borkland
Gerro! by Bill Webb
Life Blood Of The Southwest by Don Pelayo Smith
Runner’s High by Isidro Hurtado, Anthony Roberts, Tom Stiefermann
Keep Cool: Fortifying British Columbia by Ed Akselrud

Music Videos
Adrian Sutherland: Right Here by Justin Stephenson
Melting Skies by Benjamin Müller
Alien Danger with Raven van Slender (The Toy Dolls) by James Balsamo
Zeke Finn: Long Story Short by René Villar-Rios, Victor Palm
Better Be Alive by Michał Oziewicz
Unsteady by Mike Cerisano
Portuguese Calçada by André Badalo, Mariana Arroja
Echo Party by Lindsey Nico Mann
Machen by Tarek Shayne Tabet
Priscilla: Lose Control by Tia Annandale
Marck Angel: Justice by R.E.D.
Good Evening by Alexey Belkin, Vsevolod Alekhin
Hornatia! by Love Bailey
Love In Vain by Rudy Strukoff