CIFF43 Winners
The Best Animated Short Award winner, the Best Documentary Short Award winner, and the Best Live Action Short Award winner will qualify for consideration in the Short Films category of the annual Academy Awards®.
For past winners, see the CIFF archive.
Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award
Princess of the Row
USA
Directed by Van Maximilian Carlson
George Gund III Memorial Central and Eastern European Competition
One Day
HUNGARY
Directed by Zsófia Szilágyi
Honorable Mention
Volcano
UKRAINE, GERMANY
Directed by Roman Bondarchuk
Nesnadny + Schwartz Portrait Documentary Competition
Hesburgh
USA
Directed by Patrick Creadon
New Direction Competition
Good Girl Gone Bad (Petting statt Pershing)
GERMANY
Directed by Petra Lüschow
Honorable Mention
Greener Grass
USA
Directed by Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Competition
This Changes Everything
USA
Directed by Tom Donahue
Ad Hoc Docs Competition
Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk
USA
Directed by Jason Baffa
Global Health Competition
Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story
USA
Directed by Johnny Sweet
American Independents Competition
Brian Banks
USA
Directed by Tom Shadyac
Local Heroes Competition
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
USA
Directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
International Narrative Competition
Yomeddine
EGYPT
Directed by A.B. Shawky
Music Movies Competition
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
UNITED KINGDOM, USA
Directed by Stanley Nelson
ReelWomenDirect Award for Excellence in Directing by a Woman
Sara Zandieh for Simple Wedding
USA
Audience Choice Award for Best Short
Fire in Cardboard City
New Zealand
Directed by Phil Brough
Runner Up
Shakespeare in Tokyo
AUSTRALIA/JAPAN
Directed by Genevieve Clay-Smith
Programmers' Choice Award - In Celebration of the life of Toni Oliverio
Coda
USA
Directed by Erika Davis-Marsh
Honorable Mention
A Monsoon Date
India
Directed by Tanuja Chandra
Best Animated Short
Ian, a moving story
Argentina
Directed by Abel Goldfarb
Honorable Mentions
Lost & Found
Australia
Directed by Andrew Goldsmith, Bradley Slabe
One Small Step
USA and China
Directed by Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas
Best Comedy Short
Relationship Deli
USA
Directed by Ian Van der Werff
Best Documentary Short
Footsteps of My Father
USA
Directed by Paul Allman
Honorable Mention
Mr. Temple and the Tigerbelles
USA
Directed by Tom Neff
Best Family Short
Funky Butt
USA
Directed by Jonnie Stapleton
Best International Short
Three Pages
Canada
Directed by Roger Gariépy
Best LGBT Short
In Celebration of the Life of Nikki Babbit
Are We Good Parents?
USA
Directed by Bola Ogun
Best Live Action Short
Untitled Short Film About White People
USA
Directed by Nicholas Colia
Honorable Mentions
Bertie
United Kingdom
Directed by Garry Crystal
Nefta Football Club
France
Directed by Yves Piat
Best Ohio Short
Labyrinth
USA
Directed by Malen Cuturic, Colin Donovan, Andre Holland, Sam Marshall, Brendan Ours, Kyle Sminchak, James Welch
Best Student Short
Mammoth
USA
Directed by Ariel Heller
Best Women's Short
Pickle Man
USA
Directed by Nastasya Popov
The Clover and Maggie Award
In Celebration of Life
Under Mom's Skirt
France
Directed by Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix
Honorable Mention
Unforgivable
Rwanda
Directed by Giosue Petrone
The Spalding and Jackson Award
In Celebration of Joy
Alternative Math
USA
Directed by David Maddox
Honorable Mention
Funky Butt
USA
Directed by Jonnie Stapleton
FilmSlam Student Choice Award for Best Feature
Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story
USA
Directed by Jon Strong
FilmSlam Student Choice Award for Best Short
Find Harbour for a Day
France
Directed by Paul Marques Duarte
Best After Hours Short
A Purgatory Story
USA
Directed by Tom Albanese
Perspectives Award for Immersive Storytelling
Sanctuaries of Silence
USA
Directed by Adam Loften, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Runner Up
The Spacewalker
RUSSIA
Directed by Alexander Gorokhov
The Sammy Award for the Short Film with the Biggest Heart
Shakespeare in Tokyo
AUSTRALIA/JAPAN
Directed by Genevieve Clay-Smith
Honorable Mention
Valentino and the Prodigy
USA
Directed by Matt Anderson
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