This collection of short films includes the 2021 NOFF Jury Award Winning Short Films from five shorts categories: Animated Short, Experimental Short, Narrative Short, Documentary Short, and Louisiana Short.&nbsp; The New Orleans Film Festival is one of only 14 film festivals in the country that is Oscar®-qualifying in all three short-form Academy-accredited categories: Narrative Shorts, Documentary Shorts, and Animated Shorts. Jury Award-winning films in these categories automatically qualify for consideration for the Annual Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.&nbsp; Jury Award winners of Narrative, Documentary, and Animated shorts which are now qualified for Oscar® consideration are Al-Sit, directed by Suzannah Mirghani; You Can’t Stop Spirit, directed by Vashni Korin; and Trona Pinnacles, directed by Mathilde Parquet, respectively.

An arranged marriage in a cotton-farming village in Sudan leaves 15-year-old Nafisa wondering what control she has over her destiny.

Al-Sit

An arranged marriage in a cotton-farming village in Sudan leaves 15-year-old Nafisa wondering what control she has over her destiny.

This Body explores the fraught relationship between African Americans and the medical industry. As Sydney Hall participates in an experimental coronavirus vaccine trial in hopes of protecting her beloved New Orleans community, she and her loved ones confront the history of medical abuse and experimentation on Black bodies.

This Body

A Black woman enrolls in a COVID vaccine trial to confront the history of medical racism.

Two Sons and a River of Blood parallels the loss of a pregnancy with trans embodiment, as two queer cis women and a trans man perform and mythologize their experiences of harboring multiple existences.

Two Sons and a River of Blood

Two Sons and a River of Blood parallels the loss of a pregnancy with trans embodiment, as two queer cis women and a trans man perform and mythologize their experiences of harboring multiple existences.

Gabrielle finds herself stuck near Death Valley, between two parents who no longer speak to each other. The situation seems impossible, until an unexpected event comes to unravel everything...

Trona Pinnacles

Gabrielle finds herself stuck near Death Valley, between two parents who no longer speak to each other. The situation seems impossible, until an unexpected event comes to unravel everything...

Dating back to the 19th Century, the emergence of the Baby Dolls is deeply controversial. Some women associate the tradition with prostitution and the need to create networks of protection and community. For others, the Baby Dolls grew from a tradition of distinguished and highly respected women. In a broad sense, masking culture is an alternative social space where people can express themselves through activities that are normally considered socially unacceptable. On Mardi Gras, Black women experience a new freedom; one in which they are able to reclaim culture, tradition and freedom while challenging society's perception on how Black women are to act and exist in the world.

You Can't Stop Spirit

The Baby Doll Mardi Gras masking tradition is made up of self-liberated Black women creating an alternative social space that redefines freedom.

Jury Award Winning Short Films

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