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Join us as we celebrate the 2025 ReelShort Awards to crown the best talent and most compelling stories in the world of vertical short dramas. Hit play, relive the magic, and see who took home the trophy in 2025.

Evan makes gods kneel with Forbidden Curses!

At an industry party, up-and-coming model Liam is nearly drugged—but celebrity photographer Ethan spots it and pulls him to safety. Sparks fly. Soon after, they discover they’ve become stepbrothers in a newly blended family. Even so, as consenting adults, they choose each other and fall in love. As Liam’s career takes off, distance creeps in. Liam assumes Ethan resents his rise, while Ethan stays silent for reasons he can’t explain. During a meeting with producers, Liam narrowly escapes an attempted assault and finally understands what Ethan has been trying to protect him from—along with the hidden scars Ethan has carried all along.

Desperate to be financially stable enough to get their daughter back from foster care, two grifters try to con a lonely entrepreneur out of his Bitcoin fortune but get in deep trouble when they find he is not who he claims to be.

When a young elf woman is rejected by the man she loves, she learns he'll only marry her if she's lived a life worth talking about. Determined to prove him wrong, she leaves the safety of their kingdom to find danger, wonder and the truth about what it means to be alive. But when she returns, forever changed, she discovers that love and heroism were never the same thing. Tone: Romantic Fantasy Drama Keywords: heartbreak, adventure, transformation, mythic world. *This entry is participating in the ReelShort Reel Vertical Impact contest

What if the future wasn't the one we imagined? Barcelona, 200 years later, a sunken, abandoned city. A personal, poetic journey through its silent ruins. Written and Directed by Roger Delmont. *This entry is participating in the ReelShort Reel Vertical Impact contest

Arthur Hayes enters a world where games and reality merge, filled with Dungeons, Secret Realms, and monsters! Missing his dream Warrior class, he awakens the unique Hidden Class: Life Priest! Just then: Ding! The Ten-Thousandfold Amplification System awakens! With his stats boosted ten thousand times, his basic skills become Forbidden Spells! Watch this Melee Healer dominate everything with endless Forbidden Spells!

When Lucy's memory, a 1940s photographer, begins to fade, Ernest, a renowned former soldier, uses an old photo album to remind her of the love they built together. Before oblivion tears them apart completely. This entry is participating in the ReelShort Reel Vertical Impact contes *This entry is participating in the ReelShort Reel Vertical Impact contest

A Silent film that captures moments in a relationship. Because there are no direct time stamps its up to the viewer to decide what is the Past, what is the Present, and what the Future will be.*This entry is participating in the ReelShort Reel Vertical Impact contest