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Palm Springs International ShortFest

Palm Springs ShortFest, one of the most acclaimed short film showcases in the World, has become known world-wide for the community of filmmakers it attracts, and for the quality and scope of its programming. This event is the largest festival of its kind in America, showcasing over 350 short films from more than 40 countries.

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12^th edition

2006 | 24 - 30 August

Awards

Selected short films

Edition details

Best of Festival

Bawke

Norway | Jun 2005 | 15:00

Director: Hisham Zaman

Best Live Action Film - over 15 minutes

Den Sista Hunden I Rwanda

The Last Dog in Rwanda

Sweden | 2006 | 30:00

Director: Jens Assur

Best Animation

Rabbit

United Kingdom | 2005 | 8:30

Director: Run Wrake

Best Documentary

Lot 63, Grave C

United States | 2006 | 10:00

Director: Sam Green

Audience Favourite - Live Action

Zombie Prom

United States | 2006 | 36:00

Director: Vince Marcello

Audience Favourite - Animation

First Flight

United States | 2006 | 8:00

Directors: Cameron Hood, Kyle Jefferson

2nd Place - Live Action Film - under 15 minutes

Avatar

Spain | 2005 | 15:00

Director: Luis Quilez

2nd Place - Animation

Dreams and Desires - Family Ties

United Kingdom | 2006 | 9:55

Director: Joanna Quinn

Image from Dreams and Desires - Family Ties

Future Filmmaker Award

One Rat Short

United States | 2006 | 10:00

Director: Alex Weil

Aldrig en absolution

Never an Absolution

Sweden | 2005 | 18:03

Director: Cameron B Alyasin

One day a police officer arrives at a school, investigating a murder. Dijo, 11, orphaned refugee from Congo is identified as a witness. However, he is...

Aldrig som första gangen!

Never Like the First Time!

Sweden | 2005 | 15:00

Director: Jonas Odell

What was it like the first time? The answers to this question are recorded on the soundtrack of Jonas Odell's animation film. "I was hoping to bring s...

Avatar

Spain | 2005 | 15:00

Director: Luis Quilez

Cool psychological drama. Power sways between a disabled husband and his carer wife. Tension builds when his plan unfolds.

Bawke

Norway | Jun 2005 | 15:00

Director: Hisham Zaman

Two Kurdish refugees from Iraq, a father and son, approach their goal after being on the run for a long time. However, it is only when they arrive at ...

Big Girl

Canada | 2005 | 14:00

Director: Renuka Jeyapalan

Nine-year-old Josephine is resentful of her mother's love life. When Mom's new boyfriend catches Josephine's cold shoulder, a bittersweet battle of wi...

The Danish Poet

Canada | 2006 | 15:00

Director: Torill Kove

A young bard in search of inspiration goes to Norway to meet his favorite author and instead sets off an amusing sequence of accidental encounters.

Den Sista Hunden I Rwanda

The Last Dog in Rwanda

Sweden | 2006 | 30:00

Director: Jens Assur

David is like so many 10 year old boys fascinated by war. He builds plastic models of all kinds of military vehicles and plays wargames with his frien...

Dreams and Desires - Family Ties

United Kingdom | 2006 | 9:55

Director: Joanna Quinn

On acquiring a new digital video camera, Beryl becomes obsessed with the filmmaking process, using it to articulate her dreams and desires in a video ...

El Corazón Delator

The Tell Tale Heart

Luxembourg | 2005 | 9:45

Director: Raúl García

One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories, "The Tell Tale Heart" is a psychological portrait of a murderer who loses his mind because he keeps hear...