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Boston Short Film Festival Closes Another Great Edition, Announces Awards Winners of 2023:
“The 2023 Boston Short Film Festival was a major success,” says Festival host and manager Maarten Cornelis. “The 8th edition of the festival took place for the first time at The Capitol Theater, and we had a great turnout of not only film makers but also an attentive and excited audience. It’s always amazing to see the films that come out of the festival. Boston has a great cultural history and scene and our festival is happy to be part of what makes this city so special!”
Cherrypicked from almost 2000 entries, this year’s edition of the Boston Short Film Festival featured a great selection of 62 short films originating from the U.S. and around the world. (The festival’s newest online section, the OFF ON Selection, remains available for streaming until July 21, more info here).
With this year's panel of jury members having cast their final votes, the Boston Short Film Festival is delighted to announce to you today the award winners for its 2023 edition:
Best Narrative Short Film: Our Males And Females (Jordan) by Ahmad Alyaseer.
Best Documentary Short Film: Before Pandemic And War, There Were Bed Bugs And Love! (Lithuania) by Nuruzzaman Khan.
Best Animated Short Film: Under A Shooting Contrail (USA) by Rika Nakayama.
Best Underground Short Film: Disappearing Acts (USA) by Sarah E. Jenkins.
Best Experimental Short Film: Limits (Switzerland) by Simon De Diesbach.
Best LGBTQ+ Film: Our Males And Females (Jordan) by Ahmad Alyaseer.
Best Super Short Film: Writing Of Ape (Sweden) by Gustav Hugo Olsson.
Best Actor (F/M/X) : Camille Wormser In Just Right (USA) by Camille Wormser.
Best Boston Film: Jerome (USA) by Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz.
Congratulations to al filmmakers! And finally, a big thank you to all guests for coming out to enjoy four evenings of short film cinema, we hope to see you all back next year.
/official selection 2023
1979 (USA) by Mike Taylor
A Dose of The Buzzer (USA) by Aaron Thibeault
A Fugue (UK) by Charles Jimenez
All Through The Night (USA) by Graham Marvin
Bassist Needed (USA) by Spike Kittrell
Beef (USA) by Brendon Kingsbury, Sean Webley
Before Pandemic and War, There Were Bed Bugs and Love! (Lithuania) by Nuruzzaman Khan
Candle (UK) by Charles Jimenez
Charming Habits (Lithuania) by Paulius Aničas
Circus Movements (Portugal) by Lukas Berger, Mário Gajo de Carvalho
Cotton Fever (USA) by Daniel Blake Schwartz
Disappearing Acts (USA) by Sarah E. Jenkins
Down to the Bottom (USA) by Carina Miller
Elevator Alone (Greece) by Anastasia Papadopoulou
Emergence (USA) by Nick Pascoal
For All We Know (France) by Yann les Jours
Heat Wave Hallucination (USA) by Jil Guyon
Holestepper (Peru) by Sergio Fernández Muñoz
Jerome (USA) by Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz
Just Right (USA) by Camille Wormser
Keratin (UK) by Charles Jimenez, Scarlett Wang, Catarina Dias Silva, Stella Rosenkvist, Isobel O Gorman
King of the World (Belgium) by Ron Chiers
Last Kiss (Russia) by Eradzh Nidoev
Late Summer (USA) by Elizabeth Rao
Launchpad To The Limelight (USA) by Kelly Thorne
LCAW - Heart Of Glass (Germany) by Nathan Ceddia
Limits (Switzerland) by Simon de Diesbach
Love is the monster (Costa Rica) by Neto Villalobos Brenes
Manifest (USA) by Lawrence Ojugbeli, Tevin Tavares
Molten (USA) by Matt Andrew, Hillary Federico
Moscow State Circus (USA) by Joshua Van Horn
Most of the Time We Are Just Waiting (Canada) by Molly Shears
Mucho, Mucho Amor (USA) by Mariano Dongo
Mulika (Democratic Republic of the Congo) by Maisha Maene
No Entry (Canada) by Philippe Vanasse-Paquet, Dimitri Lavallée
Our Males and Females (Jordan) by Ahmad Alyaseer
Permission to land (Australia) by Martin Gerigk
Pioneer (USA) by Dillon Sienko
Poetry is Not A Luxury (USA) by Lorenzo Bradford
Portrait of a Plagiarist (USA) by David Orlowitz
Re-Membering: Meditation on a Triptych (Sweden) by Amra Hećo
Retardation (Sweden) by Nils Agdler
Rips (USA) by Major Dorfman
Sheephead (USA) by Spencer Creigh
Sona (Iran) by Zahra Torkamanlou
Stronger than you think (Belgium) by Laurent Stine
Supurbia (Norway) by Alexander Gudmestad
Text me when you get home xx (Germany) by Niklas Bauer
The Chromakey Man (Belgium) by William Samaha
The Coral Reef Chronicles (USA) by Zhuoyin He
The Dream Machine (France) by Michael William West
The Joy of a Home (Portugal) by Ana Isabel Martins
The Leak (Belgium) by Paola Cubillos
The Muse (USA) by Max Karpylev
Tilt (USA) by Bryan Hewitt, Vita Mei Hewitt
Together, Laughing (USA) by Claire Maske
Turnstile (USA) by Max Bogen
Un Eclat d'Amour Incompréhensible (Mexico) by Dante Silva
Under A Shooting Contrail (USA) by Rika Nakayama
Where my friend made a painting (Portugal) by Pedro Florêncio
Woodshedding (USA) by Viktor Herrmann
Writing of Ape (Sweden) by Gustav Hugo Olsson