Best of TFF Shorts
Catch the best of the Tacoma Film Festival shorts program with our jury award winners and audience choices!<div><br></div><div><b>Audience Choice: Best PNW Short – </b><b>MAN or MOUNTAIN</b></div><div><div style="">Collin Monda | USA | 2026 | 16 min</div><div style="">Defying evacuation orders, a notorious lodge owner must face the bet he made against the very force of nature he built his life around. Based on a true story.</div></div><div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Audience Choice: Best Short </b><b>– I Wanted to Hear Your Voice</b></div></div><div><div style="">James Pellerito | USA | 2025 | 12 min</div><div style="">After eight years of caring for his mother with severe dementia, a son’s daily routine underscores the frustration, isolation, and burnout that comes with intensive caregiving.</div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br></div></div><div><div><b>Best Animated Short </b><b>– </b><b>Blessed</b></div><div><div>Birute Sodeikaite | Canada | 2025 | 7 min</div><div>Buffalo is tough, strong, and self-sufficient. Can he brave the new frontier of parenthood, or will his anxieties get the better of him?</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Best Experimental Short – Totality</b></div><div><div>Mathilde Lavenne | France | 2025 | 15 min</div><div>A community of artists and friends, mostly women, gather to experience a total eclipse of the sun from the roof of a former Odd Fellows Lodge in a small town of Texas. </div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Best Documentary AND Best Pacific Northwest Short – Sound Again</b></div><div><div>Carlos Correa | USA | 2026 | 12 min</div><div>A boy with degenerative hearing loss decides to get cochlear implants. Almost as a joke, he takes a high school music engineering class and discovers an unexpected talent for music.</div></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div><b>Best Narrative Short – Sulaimani</b></div><div><div>Vinnie Ann Bose | France | 2025 | 20 min</div><div>Two young Malayali women meet by coincidence at an Indian restaurant in Paris, connecting over shared memories of emigration and food.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Best Music Video – “Sounds We Cannot Hear” by Protomartyr</b></div><div>Directed by Harris Mayersohn & Danny Scharar</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Best Late Night Short – Klee</b></div><div><div>Gavin Baird | Canada | 2025 | 20 min</div><div>An alien is sent to earth with a mission to invade, seduce, and terminate a family of colonizers in nineteenth-century Saskatchewan. <b><i>Contains graphic nudity: young or sensitive viewers may wish to step out before this last short.</i></b></div></div></div></div>PT1H47M2026-10-26Best of TFF Shorts"Best of TFF Shorts"Showtimes
October 26, 1:45 pm
October 27, 7:20 pm
October 28, 4:10 pm
October 29, 1:35 pm
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