Indy Film Library Index

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

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