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SHORTS PROGRAM: 2025 DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM COMPETITION

Short Film Programs, Documentary Competition
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Short Film Program | 99 minutes


The Documentary Short Competition celebrates new and emerging voices in the documentary film world. Juried by world-class filmmakers and industry professionals, the winner will take home a cash prize of $1,000 and qualify for Academy Award consideration.

 


A Q&A with filmmakers will follow the program.
(All talent attendance subject to change.)



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SHORT FILMS INCLUDE

CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG

In a struggle of love, legacy, and beliefs, a desperate family in Southwest China tries to purge an entity fro...
23 min | Hao Zhou | Germany | New York Premiere | English
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GRANNY & THE FISHES

By the dried-up Hamoon Lagoon, a lone granny remains, walking each day to gather the dead fish left behind....
28 min | Maria Mavati, Ehsan Farrokhi Fard | Iran | New York Premiere | Persian
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HOOPS, HOPES & DREAMS

The untold story of how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a team of civil rights activists took to basketball cou...
20 min | Glenn Kaino | USA | New York Premiere | English
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LANAWARU

When a local community member disappears, a boy faces an early memory, seeking comfort in Indigenous tradition...
15 min | Angello Faccini Rueda | Colombia | New York Premiere | Spanish, Yukuna
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TIGER

TIGER highlights award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, ...
13 min | Loren Waters | USA | New York Premiere | English
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