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Indy Shorts Award Winners 1

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Indy Shorts Award Winners 1
A selection of 2025 Indy Shorts award-winning films, including the Oscar®-Qualifying Grand Prize winners!
Brothers
Two boys living in Shanghai explore and discover themselves in the city.
Rise
A charismatic young boy who lives on a rubbish dump in Zimbabwe must convince a reclusive boxing coach to teach him to fight to find safety and strength in a world that has left him behind.
A Friend of Dorothy
A lonely widow's quiet life is upended when a teenage boy accidentally kicks his football into her garden.
Retirement Plan
In the throes of his overstimulated, energy poor midlife, Ray (Domhnall Gleeson) fantasizes about everything he’d love to do in retirement, once he finally has the “time.”
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The Last Observers
The heartwarming story of a Swedish couple's decades-long commitment to watching the skies.
Éiru
When the water mysteriously disappears from the well in a warrior clan’s village, an intrepid child descends into the belly of the Earth to retrieve it.
The Singers
A short film adaptation of a 19th century short story written by Ivan Turgenev, in which a lowly pub full of downtrodden patrons connect unexpectedly through an impromptu sing-off.
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A selection of 2025 Indy Shorts award-winning films, including the Oscar®-Qualifying Grand Prize winners!


This program includes: "Brothers" directed by Adrian Wong (High School Film Competition Summer White Lynch Memorial Grand Prize, Underwritten by Gary D, and Marlene Cohen), "Rise" directed by Jessica J. Rowlands (Children's Resilience Short Film Prize Presented by Shine Global), "A Friend of Dorothy" directed by Lee Knight (Directorial Debut Award), "Retirement Plan" directed by John Kelly (Comedy Award), "The Last Observers" directed by Maja K Mikkelsen (Oscar®-Qualifying Documentary Grand Prize), "Éiru" directed by Giovanna Ferrari (Oscar®-Qualifying Animated Grand Prize), and "The Singers" directed by Sam Davis (Oscar®-Qualifying Narrative Grand Prize and Narrative Audience Choice Award).

  • Runtime
    109 minutes
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