Palm Springs International ShortFest names top prize-winners
By John Hazelton
28 June 2022
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Short films from Estonia, South Korea, Cambodia, France and the US were among the major award winners at this year’s Palm Springs International ShortFest, which just finished its June 21-27 run in the California desert city with 300 shorts in its official selection.

The Visit Greater Palm Springs Best of the Festival Award went to Sierra, director Sander Joon’s short from Estonia about father and son car racers. Special mentions in the category went to The Great Abandonment, from India and the UK, and The Voice Actress, from Japan and the US.

In the Best Live-Action Short Over 15 Minutes category the winner was Further and Further Away, director Polen Ly’s film about a woman and her older brother in rural Cambodia.

Winners of the festival’s top five awards may be eligible for submission to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration.
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Further and Further Away (2022) - Plot Summary
Before their impending departure for the capital city, two siblings first must bid farewell to the place they called home, each in their own way.

A young indigenous Bunong woman and her older brother spend one last day in their rural village in northeastern Cambodia, before an impending move to the capital city in search of a more prosperous life. While her brother is excited for the move, she senses a quiet desire to return to their long-gone village that was lost to the development of a nearby hydroelectric dam a few years earlier.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16492940/plotsummary