The 20th Annual Chicago International Reel Shorts Fest (2023)

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Screenings and Awards

Our 20th annual fest is a wrap!
We'd like to thank all the filmmakers and audience members for a successful festival.  


The 20th Annual
Chicago International REEL Shorts Fest

This Year's fest featured the best short films from throughout the world.  Comedies, action, drama, Horror, Demented, arts,  we are showed a little of everything!




 
20th Chicago International Reel Shorts Awards

Audience Choice Awards 
Catherine & Michael
The Messenger
They See Something
The Lonely Portrait
Nightcap

Best Short Animation
COVID Apocalypse 

Best Drama
Something New

Best Foreign Animation
Roald

Best Documentary Short
Hope in Uganda

Best Horror Short Film
GANCHO

Best Comedy Short
I Keep Bumping Into Candy Maldonado

 Best Suspense Short
Voices

Best Foreign Comedy
[Insert Short Film Title]

Best Web Series
Strange Creatures of the Adult Wilderness

Best Chicago Short
An Outfit 

Best Foreign Short Film
Steel Forest 

Special Jury Award
Catching the Bus

Best of the Fest
Get Away

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