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
Korte Kuitspier [Short Calf Muscle] (2019) – 5 stars
Director: Victoria Warmerdam
Short Narrative
Sola (2020) – 5 stars
Director: Zoltán Debreczeni
Short Narrative
Funeral (2019) – 4.5 stars
Director: Marie Vandelannoote
Short Narrative
La Chambre aux Oiseaux [The Bird Room] (2019) – 4.5 stars
Director: Noemi d’Ursel
Short Narrative
North of Blue (2019) – 4.5 stars
Director: Joanna Priestly
Experimental
Off Peak (2020) – 4.5 stars
Director: Jesse Adlam
Experimental
The Odd (2020) – 4.5 stars
Director: Roberto Vivancos
Short Narrative
Arise! (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Carl Joyce
Short Documentary
ASCONA (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Julius Dommer
Short Documentary
A Trip to the Store (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Mason Bosworth
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
Faces without Visage (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Hesam Rahmani
Short Narrative
Home: A Meditation on Belonging (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Arman S. Haghi
Experimental
Parallel (2019) – 4 stars
Director: David Mahmoudieh
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 Republics (2020) – 4 stars
Director: Huw Wahl
Experimental
WANTOKS: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Iara Lee
Short Documentary
Walkscape (2019) – 4 stars
Director: Vasco Diogo
Experimental
Blaze Beat Jitters (2019) – 3.5 stars
Director: Nicholas F. Lavachek
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
Listen to My Song (2018) – 3.5 stars
Director: Danny Mitchell
Feature Documentary
Our Song (2020) – 3.5 stars
Director: Sophie Fazio
Short Narraitive
The Black Shuck (2018) – 3.5 stars
Director: Josh Trett
Short Narrative
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
Validity (2019) – 3.5 stars
Director: Meena Ayittey
Short Narrative
We Are Not Together – 3.5 stars
Director: Alexander Nezam
Feature Documentary
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
Death Offers Life (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Saheer Abbas
Short Narrative
Drop Point (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Sam E. Flanagan
Short Narrative
Daddy’s On the Sands (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Uriah Herr
Short Narrative
Eviction (2017) – 3 stars
Director: Teddy Nygh
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
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
The Black Bottom (2020) – 3 stars
Director: Ivy Williams
Short Documentary
The Record (2019) – 3 stars
Director: Chris White
Short Narrative
Capibaribe (2019) – 2.5 stars
Director: Francisco Catao
Short Narrative
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
Muffin Goes Clubbing (2019) – 2.5 stars
Director: Lucy Guy
Short Narrative
Pensioners United (2018) – 2.5 stars
Directors: Hazuan Hashim & Phil Maxwell
Feature Documentary
Purple, Pink and Sand (2020) – 2.5 stars
Director: Remko Dekker
Short Documentary
See Me Now – 2.5 stars
Director: Elliot Gaynon
Short Narrative
Blue (2017) – 2 stars
Director: Dia Taylor
Short Narrative
Digits of Pi (2019) – 2 stars
Directors: Tom Bessoir & Joshua Pines
Experimental
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
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
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
Not Going Back (2020) – 1.5 stars
Director: Emilie Lowe
Short Narrative
The Naked Wolf (2017) – 1.5 stars
Director: Declan Cole-Flynn
Short Narrative
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
Sharp Point (2019) – 1 star
Directors: Ross Heath & Christopher Livermore
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
Vows (2020) – 0.5 stars
Director: Sebastian Roberts
Short Narrative
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