7th Annual Top Shorts 2021 Nominations Announced
The nominations for the 7th Annual Top Shorts 2021 have been announced!
The Stranger, directed by Katherine Oostman, earned most nominations this year. Congratulations to all the nominees!

Best of Fest 2021
The Morning Walk - Louise Hylland, Marc Harpsøe
HotHed - David Spring
Pork Chop - Katherine Guggenberger
A Girl and a Gun - Pierre-Edouard Joubert
Monstrus Circus - Jordan Inconstant
The Peak - Satoshi Takahashi
ROAM - David Jung
The Last Step - Stanislav Matveev
The Great Artist - Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
Pretty Metal - Mikhail Tot
The Stranger - Katherine Oostman
Inertia City - Vellas, Reinaldo Faria
Best Narrative Film of the Year
Sleepwalk - Filipe Melo
Windblown - Usher Morgan, Katie Vincent
Mabel - Kimberley Wintle
Breaking the Silence - Seayoon Jeong
Wireless - Criss Gidas
Bongo - Jacob Lallas
Paz - Andrew Gutierrez
Metamorphosis - Elaine Xia
RED - David Newton, Beau Fowler
Dress - Paulina Lagudi Ulrich
The Stranger - Katherine Oostman
I am - Ruan Yi

Best Indie Film of the Year
Summer Rain - Renzo Montoya
Hot Take - Arthur Glover
Blinded - Cecilia Choi
If You Love Her, Let Her Go - Ilan Zerrouki
Morti's Law - Marcel Wohlfahrt, Natalie Kölbl
A Threat to Justice - Chris Files
F8th (= Rebirth + Faith) - Glenn Plummer
To Kill a Truth - Kiriakos Kotsinis
Gunther - Ryan Rowley
Pebbles - Renee Bourke
Awakened - Yulian Mateo
How Was It For You? - LIM
Best Drama of the Year
Swann - Antonio Petrone
Something Safe - Shaun Lupton
Pentimento - Benjamin O'Donnell
The Monster's Club - Federica Alice Carlino
Heartland - Jahmil Eady
Miss Boundless - Qiyu Zhou
The System - Michael Cruz
Hurtful Truth - Marie France Louis, Eman Elsweisy
The Great Artist - Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
Shevolution - Seidy Lopez
Becoming Everything - Dan Lowënstein
Maryam - Maza White, Doug Brooks

Best Comedy of the Year
Big Break - Dicle Ozcer
HotHed - David Spring
Free Desk* - Keith Macri
A Girl and a Gun - Pierre-Edouard Joubert