The films in this program are nominated for 3 awards. The Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short, a Special Jury Award and the Audience Award for Best Short Film. They appear in 5 shorts blocks in the Florida Film Festival. They are all provided to you here, in alphabetical order.

Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, this iPhone-shot short film offers a peek inside the world of high school drama.

Ava's Dating a Senior!

A minefield of grief and sadness lies below a couple’s last meeting to finalize their divorce. Co-starring Jason Ritter, this is the directorial debut of actress Jennifer Lafleur (Mad, FFF 2016).

Baby Kate

A young Nepali girl at a Buddhist nunnery gets her first period after hearing a late-night ghost story.

Black Goat

An existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit toy blocks.

Blocks

From the writer/director of the outrageous “Trashy” (FFF 2019) comes the awkwardly hilarious tale of Abby, a 30-something adjunct professor, whose night does not go as planned when she meets a much younger guy at the bar.

Boys & Toys

Birdie, a biracial girl, gets ready for her bat mitzvah while trying to reconnect with her estranged father and stepping into adulthood on her own terms.

Broken Bird

A pregnant woman heads to her family’s condo in Florida to get away from it all but ends up running into her past.

Claire At Seven Months

A young Korean-American woman, with an uncomfortably close relationship with her mother, struggles to make friends at her high school.

Dear Dear Diary

After the unexpected death of her twin sister, a young woman makes an escape to the family cabin to get away. However, familiar comforts become a lot less calming when a mysterious tiny door appears at the foot of her bed.

The Door

A struggling actor suffering from a debilitating and recurring ear infection finds blame in everyone but himself for his failures. A new film from the director responsible for “Squirrel,” FFF 2019).

Ear Ache

If you happened upon a deafblind person on a street corner with a sign, what would you do?

Feeling Through

To confront his past trauma, a military veteran acts in a hyper-realistic military simulation.

Fort Irwin

A 13-year-old Afghan hustles socks in a refugee camp, trying to survive the harsh circumstances and navigate becoming a woman.

Ghazaal

Stranded in the South with no access to women’s health services, Renee turns to a friend and risks her life by taking matters into her own hands.

Gilt

A dark comedy from the director of “Meet My Rapist” (FFF 2014) about falling in love with the ONE person you should hate.

He's the One

A man (Peter Jacobson) nods off at the wheel, wakes up a full hour later with no memory of what happened to him, and finds himself presented with a tantalizing mystery. Why does he start having visions of a lighthouse, a row of cottages, and a beautiful woman (Shannyn Sossamon) he's never met before?

The Hour After Westerly

Lying in bed together as new romantic partners, two women discuss their mutual social circles and how close they really are.

I Know Her

On the day a teenage hockey player plans to sneak away for figure skating tryouts, he gets trapped on a ferry boat in this hilarious short featuring the talents of Rachel Dratch and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

Island Queen

A farmer wakes up one morning to an unexpected apocalypse. As the last man alive, he decides to throw caution to the wind and start living his very best life.

The Last Queen on Earth

The lives of a Native-American woman and a troubled, nine-year-old boy intersect over the course of a day at a struggling reservation school in Oklahoma.

Little Chief

When Luke starts to talk about his new girlfriend Tyler—who happens to have the same name and career as his roommate—things get a little awkward. A hilarious look at a different kind of roommate problem.

Love You Tyler

Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas) is Maggie, the best of acting coaches. Brian Dennehy (Cocoon) and Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live) are easy students compared to the challenge that barges in unexpectedly. A new work from NY filmmaker Matthew Bonifacio (“Fortune House,” FFF 2014; Lbs., FFF 2005).

Master Maggie

A pregnant vegan takes it to the extreme as she struggles with her craving for meat. The directorial debut of actress Ashley Williams (How I Met Your Mother).

Meats

Perfectly staged and expertly realized, prepare to be mesmerized by this collection of reenactments inspired by small and magical true-life moments.

Museum of Fleeting Wonders

Jane is sexy, single, and looking for one last night of fun before her life changes forever.

Oh, Baby!

Dark visuals and dream-like pacing converge to illustrate the harrowing tale of ten-year-old Elizabeth who lives with her reclusive mother in a dilapidated building where fish infest the piping, surfacing by way of a drain in the bathtub.

Pond

A dystopian story of two young girls caught in a moment of sexual exploration by the cameras mounted on their prep school uniforms.

Practice

A suicidal priest (Patton Oswalt, Young Adult) in a desert town makes a decision that kicks into motion a series of events that could be either coincidental or miraculous.

The Priest

God literally forbids her to turn off a vibrator gone rogue, so an Orthodox Jew sets out on a quest to find someone who can.

The Shabbos Goy

Maddie’s discovery of a 30-year-old recording leads to an awkward family dinner and an unexpected revelation about her mother.

Tapes

A hapless therapist struggles to get through an awkward session with an opinionated young woman and her fiancé.

Tell Her It's Over

A young woman walking home from a party encounters three different types of men. Whom can she trust?

The Three Men You Meet At Night

Part&nbsp;Little Mermaid, part vampire-comedy, a mosquito (Maya Rudolph,&nbsp;Bridesmaids) looking for love falls for a man (Jay Ellis,&nbsp;Insecure) after tasting his blood.

Thirsty

With no choice but to walk home alone, Hannah (Helena Howard, Madeline’s Madeline) sees an opportunity for a ride, but others see an opportunity in Hannah—in this latest film from Aly Migliori (“After Her,” FFF 2018).

Twist

A young man in rural Ohio navigates a court-ordered drug recovery program and the unwelcome return of his ex-girlfriend.

Union County

Filmmaker Forum: Shorts #1: “Grievances”:&nbsp;The FFF is excited to welcome Zachary Grady &amp; Jenn Harris (Island Queen), Doug Roland (Feeling Though), Yi Tang (Black Goat), Brook Trantor &amp; Kate Morgan Chadwick (Oh, Baby!), and Adam Meeks (Union County) to this virtual forum to discuss their 2020 Florida Film Festival competition narrative shorts.&nbsp;Presented in conjunction with: Orlando Film Commission.

Shorts #1 - Filmmaker Q&A

Filmmaker Forum: Shorts #2: “Reverberation”:&nbsp;The FFF is excited to welcome Quinn Else (Fort Irwin), Talia Osteen (The Shabbos Goy), Bridget Moloney (Blocks) and Beck Kitsis (The Three Men You Meet at Night) to this virtual forum to discuss their 2020 Florida Film Festival competition narrative shorts.&nbsp;Presented in conjunction with: Orlando Film Commission.

Shorts #2 - Filmmaker Q&A

Filmmaker Forum: Shorts #3: “You Might Think”:&nbsp;The FFF is excited to welcome Nicole Delaney (Thirsty), Alex Kavutskiy (Ear Ache), Jessie Kahnweiler (He’s the One), Jennifer LaFleur (Baby Kate) and Matthew Bonifacio &amp; Julianna Gelinas Bonifacio (Master Maggie) to this virtual forum to discuss their 2020 Florida Film Festival competition narrative shorts.&nbsp;Presented in conjunction with: Orlando Film Commission.

Shorts #3 - Filmmaker Q&A

Filmmaker Forum: Shorts #4: “Do What You Like”:&nbsp;The FFF is excited to welcome Moira Fett (Practice), Jacob Halpren (Claire at Seven Months), Betsy Kenney &amp; Dara Katz (Tapes), Rachel Harrison Gordon (Broken Bird) and Michael Vukadinovich (The Priest) to this virtual forum to discuss their 2020 Florida Film Festival competition narrative shorts.&nbsp;Presented in conjunction with: Orlando Film Commission.

Shorts #4 - Filmmaker Q&A

In this special Filmmaker Forum, Programming Coordinator Tim Anderson talks one-on-one with actress turned writer/director Ashley Williams (Something Borrowed, How I Met Your Mother) about her provocative debut short Meats. Presented in conjunction with: Orlando Film Commission.

Filmmaker Spotlight - Ashley Williams ("Meats") - Shorts #4

Filmmaker Forum: Shorts #5: “Such a Night”:&nbsp;The FFF is excited to welcome Devon Diffenderfer (Love You Tyler), Tomas Gomez Bustillo &amp; Gewan Brown (Museum of Fleeting Wonders), Kyle C. Mumford (The Door), Tyler Macri (Pond), Kevin P. Alexander (Boys &amp; Toys), Michael Shumway &amp; Lex Hogan (The Last Queen on Earth), and April Nations (Gilt) to this virtual forum to discuss their 2020 Florida Film Festival competition narrative shorts.&nbsp;Presented in conjunction with: Orlando Film Commission.

Shorts #5 - Filmmaker Q&A

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