5th Shortcutz Amsterdam International Audience Award

Every year Shortcutz Amsterdam teams up with partners worldwide to ask a global audience which is their favourite Dutch short film. For our Audience Award, we tour with the compilation of the seven nominees for Best Short Film of the Year. This year, the tour will run in partnership with 30 national and international partners.

How to watch?
Easy-peasy! Join your local screenings, watch the seven nominated short films and vote in the end for your favourite one.

Results
Shortcutz will announce the overall winner at the 9th Shortcutz Amsterdam Annual Awards - 23rd January 2022 at 20:00 (CET) at Eye Film Museum. This gala will be streamed live on our website (www.shortcutzamsterdam.com). Jury Team

Shortcutz Amsterdam
Shortcutz Amsterdam is one of the Netherlands favourite platforms for emerging Dutch film talent to showcase their work, engage with an audience nationally and internationally, and connect with the established professionals in the industry.

BIRDLAND

Ashgan El-Hamus | Live-Action | 15’29’'

Joy and her daughter Skye live in a trailer park on the outskirts of town. Joy’s free parenting style is put to the test when Skye tries to look a lot like her mother.

CAMOUFLAGE

Remco Polman and Jantiene de Kroon | Animation | 19’53''

Camouflage is a dystopian thriller in which we follow the story of office clerk Amouf. Amouf desperately tries to hold his life together while the world around him gets darker and darker, following the rise of De Jager. This flamboyant and highly intimidating creature is a hate-instigating vigilante, who has sworn to systematically prosecute certain groups and Amouf is not a brave character. Will he be strong enough to resist?

FREE FALL

Emmanuel Tenenbaum | Live-Action | 19’20’’

Tom is a young trader in a London bank, whose recent performance has put his job on the line. When the first plane hits the World Trade Centre on the morning of September 11th 2001, Tom, convinced that it's a terrorist attack and not an accident, jumps into the biggest trade of his life. Based on a true story, adapted from the best-selling novel Swimming with Sharks by Joris Luyendijk.

LAST RIDE

Edson da Conceição | Live-Action | 11'49’'

When cab driver Oussama (40) reluctantly has to pick up the last customer of his night shift, he meets the endearing Joyce (50), who wants to make a few stops on the way. The encounter results in a road trip through the city of Rotterdam, that neither of them will soon forget.

MARLON BRANDO

Vincent Tilanus | Drama | 20’00’'

In the last weeks of being high school students, Cas and Naomi, both out of the closet, prefer to spend their days together. As “brother and sister" of other parents, they experience security and love that they cannot find elsewhere. But when their future plans seem to drive them apart, their relationship will be put at risk and the affectionate Cas must dare to be alone.

SHIELDED

Jan Verdijk | Live-Action | 21'15’'

Who can you trust during a global pandemic? Two sisters who live in forced isolation get suspicious when a man suddenly appears claiming he wants to help them. The uncanny atmosphere of the Covid lockdown is taken one step further in this gloomy short film, in which the two sisters Roos and Mira try to survive in their sealed up home, while the pandemic ragesoutside.

WALL #4

Lucas Camps | Live-Action | 07’54’'

When a cinema audience starts mocking the film they're watching, the events in the theatre take an unexpected turn.