New Orleans Film Festival 2021

Jury Award Winning Short Films

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5 films in package
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
A Black woman enrolls in a COVID vaccine trial to confront the history of medical racism.
Closed captions available
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.
Closed captions available
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...
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.

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. 


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. 


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.

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.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    11 minutes
  • Language
    English, Spanish
  • Country
    USA, Mexico
  • Director
    Amber Bemak, Angelo Madsen Minax
  • Screenwriter
    Amber Bemak, Angelo Madsen Minax
  • Producer
    Amber Bemak, Angelo Madsen Minax
  • Cinematographer
    Amber Bemak, Angelo Madsen Minax
  • Editor
    Amber Bemak, Angelo Madsen Minax
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