A collection of all 10 of the 2020 SLIFF award-winning shorts, including both juried and audience-choice picks.

Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary Short.&nbsp;Webster Groves rallies around a man with a mental disability to support his greatest passion.

Always Coming Back

Essy Award for Best Documentary Short.&nbsp;A speculative love letter to Russian constructivist women in the 1920s Soviet Union, which championed equality for women and great innovation in the creative arts — until it didn’t.

I Want to Make a Film about Women

Best Documentary Short.&nbsp;Colette Catherine, now 90, revisits the terrors of her childhood, when she fought the Nazis as a member of the French Resistance.

Colette

Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Short.&nbsp;When a young girl discovers a mysterious antique mirror in the basement of her ailing grandmother's house, she opens a window between time that allows her to cross over into Nazi-occupied Poland.

The Mirror

Essy Award for Best Narrative Short.&nbsp;Augustus, a literate carpenter and family man who is living free as a fugitive slave, is faced with a decision to speak or die when denied the wages he's earned.

Augustus

Best Short Short.&nbsp;For months now, a group of five bored young soldiers have been stuck on a mission in the middle of the Afghan mountains, but the routine is finally broken during a support mission.

R.A.S.

Best Animated Short.&nbsp;Left alone in the summer, Malo and Zoe try their best to catch their mother's elusive eye.

To The Dusty Sea

Best International Short.&nbsp;Emma, who had a C-section, didn't see her son when he was born, and when she finally meets him, she doesn't recognize her baby.

The Cut

Best Live Action Short.&nbsp;A new girl at a nunnery has her first period after hearing a late-night ghost story and believes that she has been cursed, requiring her to sacrifice a black goat to avoid further misfortune.

Black Goat

Best of Fest Short.&nbsp;A Black actor auditions for a part in a period television series.

Josiah

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