This is a list of notable independent short films. A short film refers to a film that is generally anywhere under 1 hour in length.
| Film | Year | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producers(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fireflies in the Dusk | 2025 | Jonathan Hammond | Jonathan Hammond, Ryan Roach | Martin Spanjers | [1] |
| Johanne Sacreblu | Camila Aurora González, Gladys L. Grantt | Camila Aurora González | [2] | ||
| Out for Delivery | Chelsea Christer | Clinton Trucks, Alexa Rocero, David B. Lyons | [3] | ||
| Ade (On a Sunday) | 2024 | Theja Rio | Theja Rio, Dan Pusa, Nancy Nisa Beso | [4] | |
| Are You Scared to Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail? | Bec Pecaut | Emily Harris | [5] | ||
| Cura sana | Lucía G. Romero | Ruth Porro Gisbert, Borja Nández | [6] [7] | ||
| Deck 5B | Malin Ingrid Johansson | Andrea Gyllenskiöld, Adam Holmström, Joel Rostmark | [8] | ||
| One Day This Kid | Alexander Farah | Joaquin Cardoner | [9] | ||
| Tea | Blake Winston Rice | Gabriella Piazza, Michael Cejovic, Blake Winston Rice | [10] | ||
| The Vanishing of S.S. Willie | Nick Lives | [11] | |||
| A Lien | 2023 | David Cutler-Kreutz, Sam Cutler-Kreutz | Tara Sheffer, Rebecca Eskreis, Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz | [12] | |
| The Last Butterflies | Patrick Rea | Whitney Wegman-Wood | Cooper Andrews, Jake Jackson, Whitney Wegman-Wood, John Wood | [13] | |
| The Big Pelvis | Joseph Jeavons | Joseph Jeavons, Owen Swift | Joseph Jeavons | ||
| The One Note Man | George Siougas | George Siougas, Luke Carroll, Michael Stevenson | [14] | ||
| Red, White and Blue | Nazrin Choudhury | Nazrin Choudhury, Sara McFarlane, Samantha Bee | |||
| Cherries | 2022 | Vytautas Katkus | Marija Razgutė, Brigita Beniušytė | [15] [16] | |
| How Not to Date While Trans | Nyala Moon | Eileen Makak, Chien-Yu Wang | [17] | ||
| Parasocial | Joseph Jeavons | Joseph Jeavons, Owen Swift, Bala Brown | Joseph Jeavons | ||
| Touch | Justin Burquist | Evette Betancourt, Christopher Holloway | [18] | ||
| A Rodeo Film | 2021 | Darius Dawson | Ryan Binse | [19] | |
| Burros | Jefferson Stein | Liz Cardenas, Russell Sheaffer, Jefferson Stein, Douglas Riggs | [20] | ||
| Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma | Topaz Jones, Simon Davis, Jason Sondock | Julien Berlan, Patrick Milling Smith | [21] | ||
| Leylak | Scott Aharoni, Dennis Latos | Mustafa Kaymak | Scott Aharoni, Mustafa Kaymak, Dennis Latos | [22] [23] | |
| Libertyville | Devin Scott | Suzana Norberg | Robert Norberg, Suzana Norberg, Wally Schlotter, Jeanne Scott | [24] | |
| Pulp Friction | Mark Atkinson, Tony Olmos | Mark Atkinson | [25] | ||
| We All Die Alone | Jonathan Hammond | Jonathan Hammond, Ryan Roach | Ryan Binse, Jonathan Hammond, Carla Nell, Yasmin Preciado, Shannon Taylor | [26] | |
| Dirty | 2020 | Matthew Puccini | Cecilia Delgado, Matthew Puccini, Jeremy Truong | ||
| Laura Hasn't Slept | Parker Finn | Jessica Bonander, Tristan Borys, Sean Dacanay, Jonathan Fass, Parker Finn, Lew Temple | [27] | ||
| Leave 'em Laughing | Chris Cashman | Chris Cashman, Carlo Coppo, Christopher Lusti | Mark Atkinson, Dave Branfman, Chris Cashman, Carlo Coppo, Christopher Lusti, Annie Willett | [28] | |
| Taar | Pankaj Sonawane | Sandeep Patil, Abhijeet Mhetre, Namita Gogate | [29] | ||
| The Power Agent | Mark Atkinson | [30] | |||
| Things We Dig | Pia Thrasher | Courtney Eastman, Jeremy Katz, Stephen Mickelsen, Miguel Rodriguez, J.R. Thrasher, Pia Thrasher | [31] | ||
| Film | Year | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producers(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balloon | 2019 | Jeremy Merrifield | Jeremy Merrifield, Dave Testa | Christina Cha | [32] |
| The Critic | Stella Velon | Jean Gabriel Kauss, Stella Velon | [33] | ||
| Feeling Through | Doug Roland | Doug Roland, Luis Augusto Figueroa, Phil Newsom, Sue Ruzenski | [34] | ||
| The Flourish | Shannon Taylor | Brit Taylor, Anthony Maze | Anthony Maze, Shannon Taylor | [35] | |
| Lavender | Matthew Puccini | Casey Bader, Corey Deckler, Tyler Rabinowitz | |||
| Miller & Son | Asher Jelinsky | Kate Chamuris | [36] [37] | ||
| The Neighbors' Window | Marshall Curry | Marshall Curry, Jonathan Olson, Julia Kennelly, Elizabeth Martin | [38] | ||
| Rendezvous | Seth Kozak, Damian Veilleux | Seth Kozak | Seth Kozak, Bob Kovacs | [39] | |
| What Daphne Saw | Lizz Marshall | Marine Delorme, Lizz Marshall, Cory Russell, Alex Winkler | [40] | ||
| The Color of Me | 2018 | Sreejith nair | Sreejith Nair, Fahima Mohamood | Rohit Gupta, Sreejith Nair | [41] |
| Daisy Belle | William Wall | Caroline Amiguet, Ginger Holland, Beryl Huang, Jean-Francois Cavelier, Marisa Kapavik, Matt Sivertson, Edward Wall, Kimberly Wall | [42] | ||
| The Dark Resurgence: A Star Wars Story | Michael McCumber | [43] | |||
| Deviant | Benjamin Howard | Benjamin Howard, James Hall | Brian DeGour, Benjamin Howard, Ricardo Osuna, Wally Schlotter, Rich Underwood | [44] | |
| The Fifth of November | Javier Augusto Nunez | Qurrat Ann Kadwani, Javier Augusto Nunez | Christopher Holloway, Qurrat Ann Kadwani, Javier Augusto Nunez | [45] | |
| Assumption | 2017 | Anthony Leone | Luke Pensabene | [46] | |
| Mum | Akash Mihani | Jackie R Bala | Akash Mihani | ||
| My Nephew Emmett | Kevin Wilson Jr. | Lauren L. Owen, Kevin Wilson Jr. | [47] | ||
| Once Guilty, Now Innocent, Still Dead | Mark Vizcarra | [48] | |||
| The Silent Child | Chris Overton | Rachel Shenton | Rachel Shenton, Chris Overton, Rebecca Harris, Julie Foy | [49] | |
| 12 Kilometers | 2016 | Mike Pecci | [50] | ||
| Bardo | Scott Aharoni, Dennis Latos | Petros Georgiadis | Scott Aharoni, Dennis Latos | [51] | |
| Facing the Wall | Aalam-Warqe Davidian | Naomi Levari, Saar Yogev | [52] [53] | ||
| Fletcher and Jenks | Tony Olmos | Jordan Jacobo | Ryan Binse, Jodi Cilley, Tony Gorodeckas, George Jac, Allie Lennox, Kelly Potts | [54] | |
| Hush | Michael Lewis Foster | Eric Casalini, Michael Lewis Foster, Ghadir Mounib | [55] | ||
| Nocturne in Black | Jimmy Keyrouz | Marc Fadel, Ellie Foumbi, Felecia Hunter, Jimmy Keyrouz | [56] [57] | ||
| Our Barrio | Ryan Casselman | Ryan Casselman, Yvette Angulo | [58] | ||
| The Phantom Hour | Brian Patrick Butler | Brian Patrick Butler, Luke Pensabene | [59] | ||
| Red | Branko Tomovic | Branko Tomovic, Paul D. Clancy | Adrian Carswell, Branko Tomovic, Dina Vickermann, Khaled Kaissar, Tobias Huber | ||
| Thunder Road | Jim Cummings | Mark Vashro | [60] | ||
| Undocumented | Chris Cashman | Chris Cashman, Michael Pancer | Chris Cashman, Enrique Morones, Michael Pancer, Guadalupe Valencia, Riley Wood | [61] | |
| Reformation | 2015 | Hoyon Jung | Joshua Fulton | ||
| Adventures of Malia | Shubhavi Arya | ||||
| Prego | Usher Morgan | ||||
| Baari | Jatinder Preet | Balram | Iqbal Lahar | ||
| Everything Will Be Okay | Patrick Vollrath | [62] | |||
| Boudoir | 2014 | Gina Lee Ronhovde | Angela Barrett, Josh Eisenstadt | ||
| The Case of Evil | Jana Hallford, Neal Hallford | [63] | |||
| The Gunfighter | Eric Kissack | Kevin Tenglin | Christopher Northup, Sarah Platt | [64] | |
| Stark Electric Jesus | Hyash Tanmoy, Mrigankasekhar Ganguly | Hyash Tanmoy, Arindam Biswas | |||
| Tom in America | Flavio Alves | Jeffrey Solomon, Scott Alexander Hess, Flavio Alves | Roy Gokay Wol, Greg Starr | ||
| The A.R.K. Report | 2013 | Shmuel Hoffman | Asher Crispe, Harry Moskoff, Layla O'Shea | Harry Moskoff | |
| Alfie | Thomas Mathai | Thomas Mathai, Sreeraj Nadarajan | |||
| An Obsolete Altar | Hyash Tanmoy, Mrigankasekhar Ganguly | Hyash Tanmoy | |||
| I Love Her | Darya Perelay | ||||
| Naked | Sean Robinson | VP Boyle | VP Boyle, Becky Froman | [65] | |
| The Puritans | Sean Robinson | Paul Warner, Martina Rojas Chaigneau | [66] | ||
| Whiplash | Damien Chazelle | Jason Blum, Nicholas Britell, Helen Estabrook | |||
| Ninety Seconds | 2012 | Gerard Lough | Gerard Lough, Michael Parle | ||
| Curfew | Shawn Christensen | Damon Russell, Mara Kassin, Andrew Napier | |||
| Shabbat Dinner | Michael Morgenstern | Eleni | |||
| Witness 11 | Sean Mitchell | Helen Jang Mitchell, Sean Mitchell | [67] [68] | ||
| The Strange Thing About the Johnsons | 2011 | Ari Aster | Alejandro De Leon | [69] [70] | |
| I'm Here | 2010 | Spike Jonze | Vincent Landay | ||
| The Heiress Lethal | Michael Brueggemeyer | Marianne Bates | Tony Mingee | [71] | |
| Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman | J Roland Kelly | Xtranormal Osipa Media | |||
| Film | Year | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producers(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanecer | 2009 | Alvaro D. Ruiz | Luci Temple, Janet Duncan [72] | ||
| The Butterfly Circus | Joshua Weigel | Joshua Weigel, Rebekah Weigel | Angie Alvarez, Joshua Weigel, Rebekah Weigel | ||
| No Through Road (web series) | Steven Chamberlain | Indrancole3 | |||
| The Old Man and the Seymour | Giancarlo Fiorentini, Jonathan Grimm | Giancarlo Fiorentini, Jonathan Grimm, Kevin Hill | |||
| Saber | Adam Green | Clare Grant, Rileah Vanderbilt | |||
| Shrove Tuesday: The Legend of Pancake Marion | Lee Andrew Matthews | ||||
| Mapule's Choice | 2008 | Kaizer Matsumunyane | Tumelo Matobako | ||
| Veenavaadanam | Sathish Kalathil | ||||
| 1000 Year Sleep | 2007 | Adam Wingard | Adam Wingard | Adam Wingard | |
| Laura Panic | |||||
| The Sons of Eilaboun | Hisham Zreiq | ||||
| Grace (short) | Paul Solet | Rebecca Perry Cutter | |||
| Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan | 2006 | Mike Flanagan | Mike Flanagan, Jeff Seidman | Sea Cerveny, Amy Winter | |
| Chabiwali Pocket Watch | Vibhu Puri | Film and Television Institute of India | |||
| Nicky's Game | 2005 | John-Luke Montias | Peter Alson | Matthew Parker, Matthew Strauss | |
| Twitch | Leah Meyerhoff | Sean Warner | |||
| Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story | 2004 | John Esaki | Amy E. Kato | ||
| The Last Farm | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Þórir Snær Sigurjónsson | |||
| Day of Independence | 2003 | Chris Tashima | Chris Tashima, Tim Toyama | Lisa Onodera | |
| Two Soldiers | Aaron Schneider | Chris Tashima, Tim Toyama, Bob Ducsay, Kate Miller, Betsy Pollock, Andrew J. Sacks, Aaron Schneider | |||
| Barrier Device | 2002 | Grace Lee | Caroline Libresco, Rosie Wong | ||
| The $5 Movie | 2001 | Devin Scott | Jeanne Scott, Wally Schlotter | [73] | |
| Remembrance | Stephanie Morgenstern | Stephanie Morgenstern, Mark Ellis | Paula Fleck | ||
| Rejected | 2000 | Don Hertzfeldt | |||
| A Sense of Entitlement | Mark L. Feinsod | Scott J. Kemper | |||
| Shooter | Mark Morgenstern | Denis McGrath | |||
| Film | Year | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producers(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reflections | 1999 | Pogus Caesar | Windrush Productions UK | |
| Sleeping Beauties | Jamie Babbit | Andrea Sperling, Victoria Robinson | ||
| Me and the Big Guy | Matt Nix | Matt Nix, Max Stubblefield | ||
| Express: Aisle to Glory | 1998 | Jonathan Buss | Jonathan Buss, Stephen Goldstein, Michael Sarner | |
| Visas and Virtue | 1997 | Chris Tashima | Chris Tashima, Tom Donaldson | Chris Tashima, Tim Toyama |
| Cutting Moments | 1996 | Douglas Buck | ||
| An Eye on X | 1995 | Pogus Caesar | ||
| Multi-Facial | Vin Diesel | |||
| Requiem | Elizabeth Sung | Peter Tulipan | Mel M. Metcalfe III | |
| Denko | 1993 | Mohamed Camara | Dominique Andreani | |
| Film | Year | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producers(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Lunch Date [74] | 1989 | Adam Davidson | Garth Stein | |
| Where's Pete [75] | 1986 | Jim Purdy | Michael J. F. Scott | |
| Rally of The Giants [76] | 1980 | Beryl Armstrong [77] | ||
| Within the Woods | 1978 | Sam Raimi | Rob Tapert | |
| Lanton Mills | 1969 | Terrence Malick | John Roper | |
| The Secret Cinema | 1966 | Paul Bartel | Paul Bartel, Bob Schulenberg | |
| 1:42.08 | George Lucas | University of Southern California | ||
| Ars | 1959 | Jacques Demy | Jean-Pierre Chartier, Philippe Dussart | |
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