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Films that passed through the room

New York Short Film Tuesdays is a screening series, not an awards competition. The films below were selected here — and their awards were won somewhere else. Each entry links to the filmmaker’s own page or the film’s project listing.

Illustration for The Call: a room of call-centre workers on headsets

Special recommendation

The Call

Social documentary · India · ~20 min

India's call-centre fraud industry targets the US and Europe at industrial scale. The film argues that English-language capacity, weak cross-border oversight and the outsourced call-centre economy have made India the source of most scams reaching the US, with a growing share reaching Europe. It follows a single phone call from the family who picks up to the young workers and money mules inside the supply chain, asking not only who is responsible, but why the system keeps turning.

Included as a special recommendation, not as a past selection or award entry.

Artwork supplied for The Call

Poster for Apollo 8: A Christmas Moon
Official Selection · 24 October 2017

Apollo 8: A Christmas Moon

Kevin Stirling · United States · 2016 · 15 min

A look back at the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, built from NASA footage and interviews with the journalists who covered the space programme.

Awards & honours elsewhere
  • ·Special Jury NASA Remi Award — WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival (2016)
  • ·Platinum NASA Remi Award — WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival (2017)
Source: FilmFreeway project ↗Poster courtesy of Kevin Stirling / FilmFreeway
Poster for Where Am I by COLACOASTER
Official Selection

Where Am I — COLACOASTER

Michael Dürr and Mathias Fellner · Austria · 2017 · 3 min 30 sec

A black-and-white music video for COLACOASTER's "Where Am I", shot on location in Sicily on a three-person crew.

Awards & honours elsewhere
  • ·Jury Award Winner — Around International Film Festival, Barcelona (2017)
  • ·Best Music Video — Platinum Award — NYC Indie Film Awards (2017)
  • ·Honorable Mention — Virgin Spring Cinefest (2017)
Source: FilmFreeway project ↗Poster courtesy of the filmmakers / FilmFreeway
Still from retire.ai showing a road at dusk
Screened at New York Short Film Tuesdays

retire.ai

Charles Dillon Ward · 2022

Text, sound and images from public surveillance cameras build a portrait of a recently retired AI virtual assistant.

Awards & honours elsewhere
  • ·Winner — Best Experimental Technique — Humboldt International Film Festival
  • ·Winner — Best Art/Experimental Film — Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, San Francisco
Source: Filmmaker page ↗Still courtesy of Charles Dillon Ward
Still from Many Moons in The Vacancy: moons over a city at night
Screened in 2024

Many Moons in The Vacancy

Lynn Bianchi · 2024

A meditation on transience and the space between life and death, made after the artist survived heart failure brought on by Covid-19.

Awards & honours elsewhere
  • ·Award Winner — Best Experimental — New York International Film Awards (2024)
Source: Filmmaker page ↗Still courtesy of Lynn Bianchi / Vimeo
Poster for Silent Road by Serhat Kaner
Official Selection

Silent Road

Serhat Kaner (Jax Gabriel)

A thriller short written and directed by Serhat Kaner, selected for New York Short Film Tuesdays and a winner on the festival circuit.

Awards & honours elsewhere
  • ·Winner — Best Thriller Short Film — Anatolian Short Film Festival
  • ·Winner — Best Thriller — Nicomedia Film Awards
Source: Filmmaker page ↗Poster courtesy of Serhat Kaner / YouTube
Poster for Your Loving Son, Henry with festival laurels
Official Selection · 2022

Your Loving Son, Henry

Matthew McLaughlin · 2022

A documentary reenactment built around the letter Captain Henry Augustus Sand wrote home to his mother after he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.

Awards & honours elsewhere
  • ·Best Documentary — World Webfest Mania (2023)
  • ·Best History Short — Austin International Art Festival (2023)
  • ·Best Micro Film — Oregon Documentary Film Festival (2023)
  • ·Best Historical Short Documentary — American Filmatic Arts Awards (2022)
  • ·Best Micro Short — London Indie Short Festival (2022)
  • ·Best Cinematographer — Vesuvius International Film Fest
Source: Filmmaker page ↗Poster courtesy of Matthew McLaughlin
No still supplied by the filmmaker
Official Selection · 2019

Stop Requested

Nicholas Philomeno · 2019

A student experimental short by Nicholas Philomeno, selected for New York Short Film Tuesdays in 2019 and awarded on the independent festival circuit.

Awards & honours elsewhere
  • ·Winner — Cult Critic Film Awards (2019)
  • ·Winner — Young Filmmaker category — Jean-Luc Godard Awards
  • ·Monthly Honorable Mention — Oniros Film Awards
  • ·Finalist — YoungFilmmakers, New York (2019)
Still from Lone Rider: a young man on a subway
Screened at New York Short Film Tuesdays

Lone Rider

Girls Who Film (Columbia University) · 2024

A lovelorn young man encounters his dream woman on the subway. Made by the Columbia student collective Girls Who Film.

Awards & honours elsewhere
  • ·Finalist — New York International Film Awards
Source: Barnard Bulletin / Girls Who Film ↗Still courtesy of Girls Who Film

More selections

Also in the room

Titles named by filmmakers in the festival’s public reviews. No project page or still was published for these, so they are listed without artwork.

  • The Playboy of Park SlopeJoe AciernoScreened · 2022Source ↗
  • Victor!!James ZeissScreened · 2019Source ↗
  • The Haus BeautifulKelly JacksonScreened · 2019Source ↗
  • EnGaged: Carolyn Gage On Stage and OffJenna OrkinSelected · 2017Source ↗
About the laurels

This is a screening series, not an awards competition. There are no category prizes: films are selected, programmed and shown, and filmmakers list the festival as an Official Selection or Finalist. Several alumni have gone on to win at other festivals. Those awards are listed on the alumni page, with sources.