Short Films Competition
SIFF’s Short Films Competition is divided into three categories: Live Action, Animation, and Documentary. Shorts are all about fitting a profound statement into a concise and beautiful package, and the films in each category of this competition earn their spot in the finals by telling a well developed, compelling story in 40 minutes or less.
The Short Films Competition jury, comprised of filmmakers, journalists, and industry professionals, selects the winning films for each category, which will be announced at the Golden Space Needle Awards May 25 and awarded a cash prize of $2,500 each.
Adolescent Overdrive
86 min.
From surrealistic swimming lessons to ’90s motocross, teenage coma musings to rip-roarin’ rodeos, this is growing up.
ALT Shorts: Dead Reckoning
86 min.
Chart a course through experimental fables and water imagery and oceans of cut-out and crazy animations…with nary a Tom Cruise nor impossible mission in sight.
Animation4Adults
84 min.
Startling transformations, post-career life choices, and underground mysteries.
The Family Picture Show
88 min.
Make your way through a magnificent mix of movies curated for kiddos and their families at THE FAMILY PICTURE SHOW!
The Feminine Urge
94 min.
To spit, to protest, to indulge, to break up with a boyfriend…to be a cat.
FutureWave: Teenage Hearts
98 min.
These films made by teens explore love in all its permutations, including romantic love, self-love, and familial love.
Head Trip Shorts
89 min.
Follow the white rabbit to a wonderland of bizarro, belly-bursting, gasoline-fueled fun.
Medicine Circle: Indigenous Stories of Return
71 min.
Indigenous-made films about the stunning fortitude, vibrant visions, and healing born of the snowy northern regions of the world.
Queering The Way
95 min.
Pursuing social and personal opportunities, these queer individuals strive to break through obstacles and forge on.
ShortsFest Opening Night
89 min.
It is our great pleasure to open our ShortsFest Spotlight with this collection of superb films from around the world.
Sound Visions
96 min.
These shorts explore our region’s creative spirit and talented filmmaking community.
The Spirit Cabinet
96 min.
Within the spirit cabinet, discover messages from the beyond, supernatural terrors, and an unimaginably creepy cabaret.
Through the Looking Glass
91 min.
Journey through surreal worlds, warped realities, and absurd encounters where nothing is as it seems.
WWYD (What Would You Do?)
94 min.
Heart-pounding, sexy, surreal, and sinister. Stories that ask, what would you do?