The best shorts of 2023

INCIDENT reconstructs a 2018 police shooting in Chicago, reassembling the event and its immediate aftermath from a variety of sources, including surveillance, CCTV, dashboard, and body-worn cameras, as a synchronized split-screen montage.

A lonely machine finds a sort of love in his advanced android successor. Can he handle loving someone who makes him obsolete?

Olive notices that her plant is not growing as it should - While her family"s plants are standing nicely straight, her plant is hanging limp and listless. She pulls the plant out and goes in search of new soil to re-root her plant.

Jeremy and Aurora are lost at sea. In the vast openness of the ocean they are cooped up together on a small tree trunk. As they fail to understand each other"s desires and boundaries, the fight for their survival and the survival of their relationship becomes a bloody mess. Will our castaways be able to grow while trying to make it back to shore, or will they lose a piece of themselves along the way?

What if the children - not the parents - decided to separate?

12-year-old Fabi has to finally prove himself as part of the family - by getting his first scar.

In the 1980s, Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton starred in the children"s television program Wander to Wonder. They are left alone in the studio after the show"s originator passed away.

This unsung hero story celebrates trailblazing musician, Orin O"Brien, and the double bass she plays.

A personal love letter from director Sean Wang to his Nai Nai and Wài Pó, a grandma super team that dances, stretches, and farts their sorrows away.

When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman"s stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.

The insecurities of three bald brothers intensify during their stay in an Istanbul hotel for hair transplants.

A short film about Tyler Joseph a young man from illinois who loves whose line is it anyway and the mask.

A woman wanders the streets of New York City, takes buses and trains, sits in bars and coffee shops, experiencing the city"s diverse neighborhoods, while thinking about her life, her loneliness, unrequited love. She finds moments of communion with various people she meets along the way and with the city itself.

S. Leo Chiang reflects on his relationship with Taiwan, the United States and China from the islands of Kinmen, just a few miles from mainland China.

While slugs slither aimlessly across the kitchen floor, Noémie composes a moving and fragmented self-portrait, on the fringes between intimacy and the world"s hubbub.

A cowboy ends up in a local pub after a fight with his ex gets out of hand. In search for his identity, he is soon immersed into the phantasmatic jungle of drunkenness, loneliness and sadness.

Living in a house by the sea with his daughter, a former captain who has post-traumatic stress disorder leads a tough and secluded life.

Having started a family later in life, Nasar fears he won"t live to see his children grow up and decides to be cryonically frozen after death, hoping to reunite in the future. His family face a dilemma: follow suit or risk being left behind? As their future concerns start to overshadow the present, Nasar is forced to confront his decision and rediscover what truly matters.

A hot summer day. A half-unpacked house. A mother who needs room to breathe, and a child who needs space to exist. As the afternoon heat turns oppressive, time seems to move entirely differently for each person.

50 years ago, assemblyman George Michaels cast a single vote on New York"s abortion bill that changed the course of American history but destroyed his political career in the process.

After many years together, a couple decides to have a baby. Throughout their relentless efforts, the partners try to maintain their love and unity.

The lives of two neighbours, one a pious Jewish woman, the other secular, cross during a power cut. Both are driven by a curiosity about what they have not been able to see, until now.

A mother within a Turkish guest worker family struggles with the farewell of her sixteen-year-old daughter in the lead-up to her daughter"s wedding, after which she departs for Turkey.

An ordinary skiing holiday has unexpected consequences for half-siblings Kato and Alex