The Silent Child (2017)

This film is nominated in the Live Action Shorts category, which is one of my absolute favorite categories, that if you don't pay attention to finding these films you would almost never see otherwise.  They have the advantage of being able to tell the story that they want with actors, rather than being constrained by the actual people involved, as happens in a documentary.
This one may be a tad heavy handed, but I think it rings true.  A family has a deaf child, one who has gradually lost her hearing and it seems that no one really noticed until she did not comply with them.  The fact that she never talked seems to have eluded them, and continues to elude at least the mother.  She so desires a normal child that she is willing to let her deaf child be miserable.  And alone, completely alone.  It is so sad and so believable that this is my choice to win in this category.