2025 HIFF

Indy Shorts Award Winners 1

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Indy Shorts Award Winners 1
A selection of 2025 Indy Shorts award-winning films, including the Oscar®-Qualifying Grand Prize winners!
Brothers
Two boys living in Shanghai explore and discover themselves in the city.
Rise
A charismatic young boy who lives on a rubbish dump in Zimbabwe must convince a reclusive boxing coach to teach him to fight to find safety and strength in a world that has left him behind.
A Friend of Dorothy
A lonely widow's quiet life is upended when a teenage boy accidentally kicks his football into her garden.
Retirement Plan
In the throes of his overstimulated, energy poor midlife, Ray (Domhnall Gleeson) fantasizes about everything he’d love to do in retirement, once he finally has the “time.”
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The Last Observers
The heartwarming story of a Swedish couple's decades-long commitment to watching the skies.
Éiru
When the water mysteriously disappears from the well in a warrior clan’s village, an intrepid child descends into the belly of the Earth to retrieve it.
The Singers
A short film adaptation of a 19th century short story written by Ivan Turgenev, in which a lowly pub full of downtrodden patrons connect unexpectedly through an impromptu sing-off.
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In the throes of his overstimulated, energy poor midlife, Ray (Domhnall Gleeson) fantasizes about everything he’d love to do in retirement, once he finally has the “time.”


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John Kelly

john@dolphinsbarnpictures.com

  • Year
    2024
  • Runtime
    7 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Ireland
  • Genre
    Comedy, Drama
  • Content Warning
    Drug Use, Mature Themes, Nudity
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  • Director
    John Kelly
  • Screenwriter
    John Kelly, Tara Lawall
  • Producer
    Andrew Freedman, Julie Murnaghan
  • Executive Producer
    Emma Scott, Pauline MacNamara
  • Cast
    Domhnall Gleeson
  • Animator
    Marah Curran, Eamonn O'Neill
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