The Super Shorts New York Film Festival celebrated its 2025 edition with three screening nights at Film Noir Cinema, showing shorts from around the globe. Festival curator Kris De Meester: "Looking back on this year’s Super Shorts New York, I was especially happy to see familiar faces returning to the audience—proof of the strong community that continues to grow around the festival. What made me most proud was how warmly the audience embraced both ends of the spectrum: the traditional craft of filmmaking and the more daring, experimental works. That openness to contrast and discovery is exactly what keeps the festival vibrant and alive."

 

Super Shorts New York is pleased to share with you today this year's award winners: 

 

Best Narrative Film 

We Who Remain (Norway) by Sindre Mangen Haram

 

Best Documentary Film 

Shifting Roots (Lebanon) by Angie Mrad

 

Best Experimental Film

You Can't Find Love (United States) by Tom Bessoir

 

Best Animated Film 

The Untranslatable Forest  (United States) by Ivan Miguel, Andy Camou

 

Best Underground Film

Dreamland (United States) by Maxfield Biggs, Tehya Jennett

 

Best Music Video 

Filicide (France) by Christophe Ideal

 

Best Super Short Film

Humanism (Italy) by Nicolò Faietti

 

Best New York Film

The End in Slow Motion (United States) by Joshua Kaufman

 

Best Actor (Gender Neutral)

Alessa Savage in Fuck-a-Fan (Netherlands) by Muriel d'Ansembourg

 

Best Director

The Steak (Canada, Iran) by Kiarash Dadgar

 

Congratulations to all!

OFFICIAL SELECTION 2025

Outbound (United States) by Eli Jeffery

After Dark (Norway) by Iain Forbes

Lumen (Canada) by Stéphanie Bélanger

The Other Side of Despair (Switzerland) by Varsy Buchmann

The Steak (Canada, Iran) by Kiarash Dadgar

The Cascade (Mexico) by Pablo Delgado

I’m Here Live, I’m Not a Human (United Kingdom) by Flâneuse du Mal

Fuck-a-Fan (Netherlands) by Muriel d'Ansembourg

Humanism (Italy) by Nicolò Faietti

Maricarmen (United States) by Aimee Hoffman, Chris Llerins

A Mother Goes To The Beach (Portugal) by Pedro Hasrouny

The Untranslatable Forest  (United States) by Ivan Miguel, Andy Camou

Shifting Roots (Lebanon) by Angie Mrad

Dreamland (United States) by Maxfield Biggs, Tehya Jennett

Violet (Germany) by Laura Engelhardt

Filicide (France) by Christophe Ideal

We Who Remain (Norway) by Sindre Mangen Haram

Supercritical (United States) by John Osment

The End in Slow Motion (United States) by Joshua Kaufman

Georgie (United States) by Jennie Butler

You Can't Find Love (United States) by Tom Bessoir

Sloppy Sunday (United States) by Christoff LeBlanc

Swipe (United States) by Sofia Campanella

Scenario (Japan) by Kazunori Miura

This Is Not in the Coalition Agreement  (Poland) by Piotr Jacoń

Sio Roho Yangu - Not My Soul (United States) by Joe LoBianco

Recaptcha (United States) by Heather Warren-Crow

Knife, Chocolate (Iran) by Hooshmand Varaei

Untitled: The Lost Painting by Thomas Daley (United States) by Sean Ryan