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Screening Calendar 2025

Highlights 24th MIAMIsFF 2025

Film Schedule 2024.

Nominated Films 2024.

Nominated Films 2024.

Winners 2024

Best Narrative US-Canada

Best Narrative Foreign

Best Animation

Best Experimental

Best Documentary

Best Music Video

Best Local

Best Student short Film

Audience Award

Director’s Choice

FRIDAY

NOV 14 / 8 PM
TALES OF DEFIANCE
O CINEMA

3 – DAY PASS
NOV 14 | 15 | 16
O CINEMA | SILVERSPOT

1 – DAY PASS
NOV 15TH
SILVERSPOT

1 – DAY PASS
NOV 16TH
SILVERSPOT

SATURDAY

NOV 15 / 3 PM
THE SPACE BETWEEN US
SILVERSPOT CINEMA

NOV 15 / 6 PM
THE ITALIAN FRAME
SILVERSPOT CINEMA

NOV 15 / 7 PM
MIRRORS OF THE INVISIBLE
DEERING ESTATE

NOV 15 / 7:00 PM
SILVERSPOT CINEMA

NOV 15 / 8 PM
THE TEXTURE OF SILENCE
SILVERSPOT CINEMA

SUNDAY

NOV 16 / 3 PM
UNDER DE SURFACE
SILVERSPOT CINEMA

NOV 16 / 6 PM
ROOTS & VISIONS
SILVERSPOT CINEMA

NOV 16 / 7 PM
FRAGMENTS OF LIGHT
DEERING ESTATE

NOV 16 / 8 PM
WHAT WAS ONCE OURS
SILVERSPOT CINEMA

Best North America Narrative

As Easy as closing your eyes

Dir. Parker Croft – Narrative – 21:43 Min – USA

The End

Dir. Will Pinke – Narrative – 17:28 Min – USA

Gillyfish

Dir. Sarah Sellman – Narrative – 10:51 Min – UK

Thirstygirl

Dir. Alexandra Qin – Narrative – 10:00 Min – USA

Best Foreign Narrative

Witness

Dir. aida tebianian – Narrative – 15:00 Min – Iran

A Summer’s End Poem

Dir. Lam Can-zhao – Narrative – 15:00 Min – China

Chikha – QUEEN

Dir. AYOUB LAYOUSSIFI, ZAHOUA RAJI – Narrative – 24:00 Min – Morocco

LEES WAXUL

Dir. Yoro MBAYE Diegane Niang – Narrative – 21:00 Min – Senegal

The Roses

Dir. Qiao H – Narrative – 15:00 Min – China

In the Shadow of the Cypress

Dir. Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani – Narrative – 19:33 Min – Iran

Original Sin

Dir. Donovan Marsh – Narrative – 04:00 Min – South Africa

Tomorrow

Dir. Aryasb Feiz – Narrative – 16:40 Min – Iran

Best Experimental

Original Sin

Dir. Donovan Marsh – Narrative – 04:00 Min – South Africa

Torii

Dir. Martin Gerigk – Experimental – 12:30 Min – Germany

Mothers & Monsters

Dir. Edith Jorisch – Experimental – 15:45 Min – Canada

Best Documentary

Plastico

Dir. David Harriman, James Bettney – Documentary – 04:56 Min – UK

AQUÍ Y ALLÁ

Dir. Isabella Breton – Documentary – 09:59 Min – USA

Best Music Video

Ammo Harm

Dir. Adrian Pruett, AMMO – Music Video – 04:23 Min – USA

When the Hawk comes

Dir. Lilia Li-Mi-Yan, Katherina Sadovsky – Experimental/Music Video – 05:58 Min – Armenia

Buen Camino – The Ash of stars

Dir. Sebastian Juszczyk – Music Video – 06:56 Min – Poland

Best Local film

Besties, Borders and barks

Dir. Inga Moren Tapias – Narrative/Local – 11:47 Min – USA

Little Haiti, Miami, USA

Dir. XF Serrano – Narrative/Local – 08:50 Min – USA

Panther G

Dir. RUBEN MORALES – Narrative/Local – 15:40 Min – USA

Best College/University Student

I Know you

Dir. Lucca Vieira – Narrative/Local/Student – 05:28 Min – USA

Cherry

Dir. Phi Phi – Narrative/Student – 18:33 Min – USA

VENUES

O Cinema South Beach

Venue

Regal South Beach at Lincoln Road

Venue

Deering Estate

Luis Fernando Aleman 
Dir. TAG! You’re It!

Mari Mantela
Dir. Rabobesto Or How I Saved a Monster

Isaac Areizaga
Dir. Reserva Familiar

As Easy as closing your eyes
Dir. Don’t say butterfly

Margaux Calla Susi 
Dir. The Sperm Bank

By Emily Singer
Dir. Stick & Stones

Selected Films 2026

A Wolf in the Suburbs

Dir. By Amélie Hardy – Documentary – 19:00 Min – Canada

ASPHALT

Dir. By Mehdi Ouahab – Narrative – 23:14 Min – France

Big Bad Yucky Monster

Dir. By Nicole Lipp – Narrative – 7:17 Min – USA

Black Wedding A Serbian Folktale

Dir. By Jessica Bachman – Narrative – 8:18 Min –  Serbia

Ebb & Flow

Dir. By Nay Tabbara – Narrative – 18:45 Min – Lebanon

El síndrome del recomendado

Dir. By Juan Carlos Mostaza – Narrative – 15:00 Min –  Spain

Epiphany

Dir. By Luz Alejandra Perez – Narrative– 11:24 Min –  USA

Father Alphonse and the Fight Between Carnival and Lent

Dir. By Diana Thorneycroft

 – Animation – 7:31 Min – Canada

First Summer

 Dir. By Gayoung Heo – Narrative – 30:00 Min – South Korea

Fundbox – A Love Story

Dir. By Miles Merritt & Gail Kempler– Narrative – 23:00 Min –  Austria

How do you spell amor

Dir. By Aarón Vega Granados – Narrative – 14:08 Min –  USA

Ill protect you

Dir. By David Narbeki – Music Video– 4:15 Min –  USA

In Between

Dir. By Ana Kiri – Narrative– 14:46 Min –  USA

Insalvable

Dir. By Javier Marco – Narrative – 18:00 Min –  Spain

Iterations

Dir. By Alexander Gordillo – Narrative – 10:29 Min – Venezuela

Kippur

Dir. By Uriya Hertz – Narrative – 12:00 Min –  Israel & USA

La Dichotomie

Dir. By Suzie Toot, Dan Ingram and Oscar Ruso – Experimental – 14:00 Min –  USA

La luna que amamos como un Hermano

Dir. By Iñaki Velasquez – Narrative – 17:00 Min – Chile

Land of Cold

Dir. By Hervé Demers  – Documentary – 16:52 Min – Canada

Let It Be

Dir. By  Egor Yatsenko – Narrative – 19:49 Min – Lithuania

Loon

Dir. By Brad E Kins – Narrative – 7:45 Min –  USA

MA-MA

Dir. By Isabel María Monge Guerrero – Animation – 5:13 Min – Spain

Make Money, Find Meaning, Don’t Panic

Dir. By Amélie Hardy – Documentary – 22:00 Min –  Canada

NIO GÅNGER BÄTTRE

Dir. By Lorenzo Follari & Emma Dock – Narrative – 8:17 Min –  Sweden

Off – Time

Dir. By Nata Metlukh – Animation– 10:00 Min –  Ukraine

The Oracle

Dir. By  JJ Adler– Narrative – 18:05 Min –  USA

Papillon

Dir. By Florence Miailhe  – Animation– 15:00 Min – France

Poor Me

Dir. By Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad  – Narrative – 19:39 Min – Norway

Que suene la Banda

Dir. By Jorge Parra Jr.– Narrative – 22:58 Min –  USA

Saranghae

Dir. By Amir Zargara – Narrative – 5:00 Min –  Canada, Iran, South Korea

Something Wild

Dir. By  Zsuzsanna Konrad – Narrative – 21:00 Min – Hungary, UK & USA

Time Space Love

Dir. By Marie-Louise Gariépy – Narrative – 15:00 Min –  Canada

Um Dia Bom

Dir. By Tiago Rosa-Rosso – Narrative – 20:00 Min –  Portugal

UNTER STRAHLEN

Dir. ByJörn Staeger  – Experimental – 8:22 Min – Germany

Until the last minute

Dir. By Ilya Noyabrev  – Music Video– 3:33 Min – Ukraine

Vote for Viky

Dir. By Nick Nottebaum – Narrative – 15:36 Min –  USA

What We Leave Behind

Dir. By Jean-Sébastien Hamel & Alexandra Myotte – Animation – 10:47 Min – Canada

Wie die Nelken

Dir. By Emine Demir – Narrative – 22:00 Min –  Germany

  • (ALMOST) A STAR by Keilah Ayum , USA
  • 8PM SHARP by Kane Radu , USA
  • A THING ABOUT KASHEM by Bijon Imtiaz , Bangladesh
  • ALL BEAUTY QUEENS HAVE BROKEN BONES by Max C Tullio , USA
  • ALONDRA by Tete Pacas, Joan Cabrera, Kevin Araúz , Panama
  • BAJO EL PARAGUAS DEL ROMANCE by Andrés Silva , Guatemala
  • BEING HUMAN by André Mancebo Heizer, Sergio Diaz-Silverio , USA
  • DE UN HILO by Fernanda Camacho, Alejandro Camarena , Mexico
  • CAPTURADA by Isabela Paiao, Ryan Rivera, Sophie Gould , USA
  • CATS by Danilo Stanimirović , Serbia, Switzerland
  • LAS CONTINUIDADES by Merlina Mercedes Molina Castaño, Jorge Sesan , Argentina
  • DELULU by ATHAN TOM SKLAVOS , Greece
  • DISTANCIA by César Hernández , Honduras
  • DOS BRAZALETES DE PLATA by José Orive , Guatemala
  • EDEL RODRIGUEZ: FREEDOM IS A VERB by Mecky Creus, Adrienne Hall , USA
  • EL PESCADOR by William Reyes , Honduras
  • EYES BEHIND THE WINDOW by Golriz Abbaspour , Canada
  • FOUNTAIN (CHAWK) by Hazhir As’adi , Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • HASTA LA FUTURA by Rodrigo Rodríguez , Colombia
  • HEARTS OF STONE by Tom Van Avermaet , Belgium, Croatia
  • HOLY HEAVASNESS by Farnoosh Abedi, Negah Khezre Fardyardad, Mohammad Ghaffari , Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • I WANT TO GO TO MOSCOW by Sarah Baskin , USA
  • IL TAGLIO DI JONAS by Rosario Capozzolo , Italy
  • KIND MOTHER by Clare O’Connor , USA
  • LIFE BEGINS by Oleksii Taranenko , Ukraine
  • LUISA by Kiyomi DallasKidd , USA
  • LUMEN by Stéphanie Bélanger , Canada
  • MAGDALENA, TE AMO. by Andrea Calao , USA
  • MR.BAI by Hai Liang , China
  • MY ANXIETY AND FREEDIVING by Jesus Olarte , USA
  • EL DIA DE MI INDEPENDENCIA by Constanza Majluf , Chile
  • PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS by Alison McAlpine , Canada
  • PHANTOM CONTACT by Andres Eduardo Campilllo , USA
  • PRAYER OF THE SEA by Martin Gerigk , Germany
  • SAN SIMON by Michael Flores , El Salvador
  • TASLIMAN by Gokhan Bulut , Turkey
  • THE ALPACA CONNECTION by Tom Brown , USA
  • THE HOUSEKEEPER by surya balakrishnan , India
  • THE INEVITABLE by Arjen Schotel , Netherlands
  • THE NIGHT SHIFT by Salih Ortacay , Turkey
  • WILD ANIMAL by Tianyun Lyu , USA
  • YOUNG PEOPLE BIG DREAMS by Vanessa Schefke , USA

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The Miami short Film Festival is dedicated to promoting the short film genre, showcasing films from 1-20 minutes long. The Festival is international in scope, bringing exposure to the world’s best independent up-and-coming filmmakers. MIAMIsFF’s mission year after year is focused on motivating directors, screenwriters, actors, and producers to make films and share them with fellow filmmakers and industry professionals. The ultimate goal is to bring exposure to independent up-and-coming filmmakers. MIAMIsFF is an avid supporter of local and international film makers representing cinematic productions that embody the true spirit of the art. From original scripts to new cinematography and film techniques, each and every piece is the result of true emotion and expression.

MIAMIsFF’s goal year after year is focused on motivating directors, screenwriters, actors, and producers to make films and share them with fellow film makers and industry professionals. The ultimate goal is to bring exposure to independent up-and-coming filmmakers.

This video was presented on the final day of the 24th Miami Short Film Festival 2025 to announce the winners in each category. It was a wonderful moment of celebration, highlighting the incredible talent and creativity showcased throughout the festival.

We are proud to honor the filmmakers whose work stood out this year and deeply grateful to all participants who made this edition so memorable. Congratulations to all the award recipients of the 24th Miami Short Film Festival!

WHAT FILMMAKERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

“Thank you for selecting Lily’s Mirror and nominating us for Best North American Narrative! What a wonderful festival! William, Ricardo, and Georgina are excellent hosts and you can tell everyone really loves movies and the craft of making them. Venues and screeners were perfect and the Q&A was the best we’ve experienced.
Megan Dahl
Producer – Lily’s Mirror






“Awesome, thank you so much! This was great William!! I really love what you guys are doing and this fuels my motivation to continue to pursue filmmaking! BIG THANK YOU TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM!!!!
Jaime Andres Montenegro
Neon Gravity | Metaverse 7






Fantastic Festival! Our film was selected and I was there the entire festival and everything was great: the organization, communication and networking. A great mix of a very professional and also a warm friendly atmosphere. I can totally recommend it! Thank you dear MiamisFF!!”
Anne Kraft
No Kidding




Great experience. A well-organized festival with tradition, in beautiful Miami venues. An honor to be selected and would definitely submit again!”
Gabe Silva
Skeletons




“I want to let you know that this specific festival has been a complete and resounding drastic turn in my life as a filmmaker and director for this beautiful industry, your consideration with my project means much more than any word I can put in this text, I am mercilessly and undyingly full of gratitude and humility for everything, and surely more projects will be in order in the future, always wishing you and yours the best and good fortune.”
Guillermo Diaz
Tactica & Estrategia
“What a night!! Thank you so much for the wonderful screening last night — the venue was so beautiful, the films were awesome (plus they looked & sounded great), the audience was warm & responsive, and the Q&A was professional and fun! I couldn’t ask for more!!”
Nancy Nagrant
MIRACLE BABY

WITH CONTINUED SUPPORT FROM

Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council.

The 22nd edition of the Miami Short Film Festival is made possible in part with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Arts Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, the City of Miami Beach Department of Tourism and Cultural Development, Office of Cultural Affairs, and the Miami Beach Mayor and City Commissioners, and the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs. 

Miami Short Film Festival is made possible in part with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Arts Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, the City of Miami Beach Department of Tourism and Cultural Development, Office of Cultural Affairs, and the Miami Beach Mayor and City Commissioners, and the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs.