The best (and worst) independent films sent for consideration in the Indy Film Awards.
Call Me Intern (2019) – 5 stars
Directors: Nathalie Berger, Leo David Hyde
Feature Documentary
Jack Fall (2020) – 5 stars
Director: Michael Greenman
Feature Narrative
Korte Kuitspier [Short Calf Muscle] (2019) – 5 stars
Director: Victoria Warmerdam
Short Narrative
Les Glaçons [Ice Cubes] (2020) – 5 stars
Director: Sara Dufossé
Short Narrative
Pathologies of Everyday Life (2020) – 5 stars
Director: Alexandros Papathanasopoulus
Short Narrative
Right Now I Want to Scream: Police and Army Killings in Rio – The Brazil Haiti Connection (2020) – 5 stars
Directors: Cahal McLaughlin & Siobhan Wills
Feature Documentary
Silent Movie (2020) – 5 stars
Director: Melo Viana
Short Narrative
Sola (2020) – 5 stars
Director: Zoltán Debreczeni
Short Narrative
Staying Sane (During A Global Pandemic) (2020) – 5 stars
Director: Dorothea Sterian
Short Documentary
The Girl in the Jeep (2020) – 5 stars
Director: Alexey Zuev
Short Narrative
Where Am I? (2019) – 5 stars
Director: Cheng Qiu
Experimental
A Democratic Proposal (2019) – 4.5 stars
Director: Chandana Prasanna
Short Narrative
Fuggirò Tanto Amore (2019) – 4.5 stars
Director: Raúl Lorite
Short Narrative
Funeral (2019) – 4.5 stars
Director: Marie Vandelannoote
Short Narrative
Histórias de Lobos [Histories of Wolves] (2018) – 4.5 stars
Director: Agnes Meng
Short Documentary
La Chambre aux Oiseaux [The Bird Room] (2019) – 4.5 stars
Director: Noemi d’Ursel
Short Narrative
La Maison [The House] (2019) – 4.5 stars
Director: Mali Arun
Feature Documentary
Monorail (2020) – 4.5 stars
Director: Shizuko Tabata
Experimental
North of Blue (2019) – 4.5 stars
Director: Joanna Priestly
Experimental
Off Peak (2020) – 4.5 stars
Director: Jesse Adlam
Experimental
People Who Pretend to be Crows in Their Spare Time (2019) – 4.5 stars
Director: Will Priddis
Short Feature
Poem Reply to Sofía (2021) – 4.5 stars
Director: Sofía del Pedregal
Experimental
Tesoro: The Treasure Hunt (2020) – 4.5 stars
Director: Patrick Büchting
Short Narrative
That Thing Between Us (2020) – 4.5 stars
Director: Dave Grønvall-Petersen
Short Narrative
The Dandelion Cortex (2020) – 4.5 stars
Director: Nico Fulton Lavachek
Short Narrative
The Odd (2020) – 4.5 stars
Director: Roberto Vivancos
Short Narrative
Three Brothers Two (2020) – 4.5 stars
Director: Craig Moore
Short Narrative
A Dilo (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Shein Mazour
Feature Documentary
A Disagreement About Flies (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Kali Davis
Short Narrative
Alvorada (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Carolina Neves
Short Narrative
Arise! (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Carl Joyce
Short Documentary
ASCONA (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Julius Dommer
Short Documentary
A Simple Haircut (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Dorothea Sterian
Short Documentary
A Trip to the Store (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Mason Bosworth
Short Narrative
Autumn Never Dies (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Chris Quick
Short Narrative
Catharsis (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Thisen Umagiliya
Short Narrative
DION (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Harvey Kadijk
Short Narrative
Disparue [Gone] (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Joan Bentosela
Short Narrative
Evidence of the Evidence (2017) – 4 stars
Director: Alexander Johnston
Short Documentary
Externo (2021) – 4 stars
Director: Jonathan Taub & Leandro Taub
Feature Narrative
Faces without Visage (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Hesam Rahmani
Short Narrative
Feminam (2017) – 4 stars
Director: Marijke de Belie
Experimental
FILM ME (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Ed Picard
Experimental
Fragmented (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Andre Rodrigues
Short Narrative
Home: A Meditation on Belonging (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Arman S. Haghi
Experimental
Huo Zhe [Living] (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Kino Lee
Experimental
Icon (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Guillaume Versteeg
Experimental
Kanarta: Alive in Dreams (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Akimi Ota
Feature Documentary
Letter to my mother (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Amina Maher
Short Documentary
Parallel (2019) – 4 stars
Director: David Mahmoudieh
Short Narrative
Retina (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Niels Veenendaal
Short Narrative
Ruby Baby (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Lee McQueen
Short Narrative
Saturation (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Perrine Liévois
Experimental
Strajk Kobiet Trwa [The Women’s Strike Continues] (2018) – 4 stars
Director: Magda Malinowska
Feature Documentary
Terror (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Ashley Scott
Short Feature
The Angel of History (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Eric Esser
Short Documentary
The Flaneur (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Lyall Stephens
Short Narrative
The Itchen Comeback (2020) – 4 stars
Directors: Will Priddis & Brendan White
Short Documentary
The Republics (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Huw Wahl
Experimental
Verzerrung [Distortion] (2021) – 4 stars
Director: Samuel J Punto
Experimental
WANTOKS: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Iara Lee
Short Documentary
Walkscape (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Vasco Diogo
Experimental
12th Street (2020) – 3.5 stars
Directors: Gregory Lovett & Matthijs Heesemans
Feature Documentary
Blaze Beat Jitters (2019) – 3.5 stars
Director: Nicholas F. Lavachek
Short Narrative
Chopsticks (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: J. Basil
Short Narrative
El Afortunado [The Lucky] (2019) – 3.5 stars
Director: Wisny Dorce
Feature Narrative
Gilbert (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: Xavier Wehrli
Experimental
Les Fossoyeurs [Gravediggers] (2019) – 3.5 stars
Director: Alexis Caro
Short Narrative
Les Yeux Plus Gros que le Ventre [The Eyes are Bigger than the Belly] (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: Marie Lormeau
Short Narrative
Listen to My Song (2018) – 3.5 stars
Director: Danny Mitchell
Feature Documentary
mixed~feelings (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: Richard O’Callaghan
Experimental
Our Song (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: Sophie Fazio
Short Narraitive
The Black Shuck (2018) – 3.5 stars
Director: Josh Trett
Short Narrative
The Bronze Men of Cameroon (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: Florence Ayisi
Feature Documentary
The Floor is Lava (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: Falun Ellie Koos
Short Narrative
The Mind Festers First (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: Cameron Bonham
Short Narrative
The Red World (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: Sophia Ralston
Short Narrative
The Thing Is (2016) – 3.5 stars
Directors: Harvey Kadijk & Smita Gayadin
Short Documentary
Validity (2019) – 3.5 stars
Director: Meena Ayittey
Short Narrative
We Are Not Together – 3.5 stars
Director: Alexander Nezam
Feature Documentary
White Castles (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: Noah Namgoong
Short Narrative
Yellowstone (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: Éanna Mac Cana
Short Narrative
Zwart (2019) – 3.5 stars
Director: Tommie Geraedts
Short Narrative
Among the Stars (2014) – 3 stars
Director: Joel Johnston
Short Narrative
Block Island (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Jeffrey Douglas
Feature Narrative
Bruised Reflections (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Sam E. Flanagan
Short Narrative
Caring for Your Carcass (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Johanne Chagnon
Experimental
Daddy’s On the Sands (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Uriah Herr
Short Narrative
Daughters (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Dia Taylor
Short Narrative
Death Offers Life (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Saheer Abbas
Short Narrative
Drop Point (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Sam E. Flanagan
Short Narrative
Eviction (2017) – 3 stars
Director: Teddy Nygh
Short Narrative
For the Women of Belarus (2021) – 3 stars
Director: Anandha Ray
Experimental
Halwende (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Luca Izarin
Short Narrative
In the Same Direction: Jeff Pifher & Socrates’ Trial (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Alexander Craven
Short Documentary
La Herencia de Martí [The Heritage of Martí] (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Marcel Buisan
Short Narrative
Lone Wolves (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Sergi Arnau
Feature Narrative
Luz (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Emilio Torres
Short Narrative
Mad’ouk – Toughened by Life (2021) – 3 stars
Director: Bharat Talaviya
Feature Documentary
Natalia Wolf (2021) – 3 stars
Directors: Lucy Morningstar & Some Dude Named Devs
Short Narrative
One Minute to Midnight (2020) – 3 stars
Director: James Brammer
Short Narrative
Próxima Paragem [Next Stop] (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Florence Weyne Robert
Experimental
QUOTA (2019) – 3 stars
Director: P. Amundhavanan
Feature Narrative
Reclaiming Work (2020) – 3 stars
Directors: Usayd Younis & Cassie Quarless
Short Documentary
Sempre Piu (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Dia Taylor
Short Narrative
Tag X (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Manuel Weiss
Feature Narrative
Technolost (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Ewan Creed
Experimental
The Abyss (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Will Priddis
Short Narrative
The Albanian Code (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Yael Katzir
Feature Documentary
The Black Bottom (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Ivy Williams
Short Documentary
The Future Decisionmakers (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Amir Shadman
Short Documentary
The Journeyman (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Peter Babakitis
Feature Narrative
The Record (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Chris White
Short Narrative
The Talk (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Jay Bhatti
Short Narrative
12,800 (2020) – 2.5 stars
Director: Andreas Papakyriakou
Short Narrative
Capibaribe (2019) – 2.5 stars
Director: Francisco Catao
Short Narrative
Colophon 1 & 2 (2019) – 2.5 stars
Director: Rikard Lassenius
Experimental
Corona Lockdown Wildernis (2020) – 2.5 stars
Director: Sanne Vermaas
Short Documentary
I Think She Said Her Name Was (2018) – 2.5 stars
Director: Zev Howley
Short Narrative
Mankind’s Superpower (2018) – 2.5 stars
Director: Christopher Beauchamp
Short Narrative
Meer dan Mij [More than Me] (2020) – 2.5 stars
Director: Thijs van Meurs
Short Narrative
Melancholia (1) (2020) – 2.5 stars
Director: Michael Amter
Experimental
Muffin Goes Clubbing (2019) – 2.5 stars
Director: Lucy Guy
Short Narrative
Out of My Skin (2020) – 2.5 stars
Director: Luuk Audenaerde
Short Narrative
Patricia Wants In (2020) – 2.5 stars
Director: Kane Tenadii-Hay
Short Narrative
Pensioners United (2018) – 2.5 stars
Directors: Hazuan Hashim & Phil Maxwell
Feature Documentary
Promenade en forêt [A walk in the forest] (2019) – 2 stars
Director: Johanne Chagnon
Experimental
Purple, Pink and Sand (2020) – 2.5 stars
Director: Remko Dekker
Short Documentary
See Me Now – 2.5 stars
Director: Elliot Gaynon
Short Narrative
Strays (2020) – 2.5 stars
Director: Dobrawa Hopaluk
Short Narrative
Blue (2017) – 2 stars
Director: Dia Taylor
Short Narrative
Digits of Pi (2019) – 2 stars
Directors: Tom Bessoir & Joshua Pines
Experimental
In Place of My Thumb (2020) – 2 stars
Director: Joseph Lawson
Feature Narrative
In the Shadow of Jozef Peeters (2020) – 2 stars
Directors: Ritchie Vermeire & Lennart Gosman
Short Documentary
Kaali Maati (2020) – 2 stars
Director: Hemantkumar Mahale
Feature Narrative
Little Miseries (2020) – 2 stars
Director: Dia Taylor
Short Narrative
Nour (2019) – 2 stars
Director: Suzy Sainovski
Short Narrative
Roadkill (2020) – 2 stars
Director: Xavier Wehrli
Short Narrative
Soul Bones (2019) – 2 stars
Director: Andrew Huggins
Short Narrative
The Pipe Overhead (2020) – 2 stars
Director: Max Lemnij
Short Documentary
The Sanctuary (2020) – 2 stars
Director: Allen Kool
Feature Narrative
The Toy Story (2020) – 2 stars
Director: Sudipta Chakraborty
Short Narrative
These Few Hours (2019) – 2 stars
Director: Dia Taylor
Short Narrative
Trespass (2018) – 2 stars
Director: Jonathan Foulston
Short Narrative
Übel (2020) – 2 stars
Director: Edwin Schaap
Short Narrative
Afternoon Tea (2020) – 1.5 stars
Director: Noelle Clarke
Short Narrative
Alaska Long Hunters (2020) – 1.5 stars
Director: Mark Rose
Feature Documentary
Girls to the Front! (2019) – 1.5 stars
Director: Erin Richardson
Short Narrative
La Rosa és Morta [The Rose is Dead] (2019) – 1.5 stars
Director: Daniel Giménez
Feature Narrative
Lost (2019) – 1.5 stars
Director: Angela Zandberger
Short Narrative
Mixed Movie (2019) – 1.5 stars
Director: Vasco Diogo
Experimental
Not Going Back (2020) – 1.5 stars
Director: Emilie Lowe
Short Narrative
Searching for Beati Paoli (2020) – 1.5 stars
Director: Ric Acevedo
Feature Documentary
The Cabin (2019) – 1.5 stars
Director: Maxime Chefdeville
Short Narrative
The Naked Wolf (2017) – 1.5 stars
Director: Declan Cole-Flynn
Short Narrative
The Romans (2020) – 1.5 stars
Director: Maurice Micallef
Feature Documentary
The Service (2020) – 1.5 stars
Director: Austin Bowen
Short Narrative
Too Good to be Forgotten (2020) – 1.5 stars
Director: Andy Bystrom
Short Documentary
Walk the Dog (2019) – 1.5 stars
Director: David Terry
Short Narrative
Wireless (2019) – 1.5 stars
Director: Criss Gidas
Short Narrative
20LEGEND – Tribute to a legend (2021) – 1 star
Director: Anthony Parker
Short Documentary
Amidah (2014) – 1 star
Director: Gene Bernofsky
Short Documentary
Bardo (2018) – 1 star
Director: Rolf Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Experimental
Bitch, Popcorn & Blood (2015) – 1 star
Director: Fabio Soares
Short Narrative
Light (2019) – 1 star
Director: Christopher Beauchamp
Short Narrative
Nowheresville (2018) – 1 star
Director: Kevin McVey
Feature Narrative
Paradox (2019) – 1 star
Director: JD Cohen
Short Narrative
Photalgia (2020) – 1 star
Director: Michael McCallum
Short Narrative
Sharp Point (2019) – 1 star
Directors: Ross Heath & Christopher Livermore
Short Narrative
The Cricket-Man (2021) – 1 stars
Director: Oliver Boon
Short Narrative
The Eve (2015) – 1 star
Director: Luca Machnich
Short Narrative
A Deadly Charter (2020) – 0.5 stars
Director: Hank Slaughter
Short Narrative
Air 2040 (2020) – 0.5 stars
Director: Avibrata Chanda
Short Narrative
Odyssey of the Disturbed (2019) – 0.5 stars
Director: Dean Houlihan
Experimental
Sensation (2020) – 0.5 stars
Director: Martin Grof
Feature Narrative
Vows (2020) – 0.5 stars
Director: Sebastian Roberts
Short Narrative
Love Thy Neighbor – The Story of Christian Riley Garcia (2020) – Unrated
Director: Brandon Smith
Feature Documentary
Swipe Left: The Age of Disposable Relationships (2020) – Unrated
Director: Amber Ostergaard
Short Documentary
