Cannes 2016: Luca Tóth

At Cannes’ Critics Week, Luca Tóth premiered her second animated short Superbia, produced by Péter Benjámin Lukács with the score by Csaba Kalotás. Luca was...

Surreal, evocative, humorous: the 2D animated work of the Hungarian filmmaker

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Sunday – by Patrick Doyon

It’s a cold Sunday in wintertime. Sunday immediately brings us back to our childhood and, for a moment, we really...

An animation that brings the unexpected in an ordinary family lunch

(National Film Board of Canada)

Canada / 10minutes

Inamorata – by A-lan Holt

Inamorata is the first short film written and directed by playwright, filmmaker and Stanford University educator A-lan Holt. She...

A painful (and autobiographical) love story of magic and sisterhood

(TRUE MVMNT)

USA / 21minutes

Otherhalf – by Ben West

Otherhalf is described by the authors as a comedy about a man who decides to “break up” with himself. The...

A literal conflict with themselves, by Framestore

(Framestore)

USA / 10minutes

The Chair of Life – by Carlos Valle

What holds two sisters-in-law together over a lifetime? Carmen and María are two old ladies who support each other...

The short film awarded with the First Prize at Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival 2016: a touching reflection about old age

(Auntie Films)

Spain / 10minutes

Carmen – by Giuseppe Cardaci

A group of aspiring actresses is waiting for their audition to get the main role for the iconic opera...

What happens when impossible dreams strive to come true?

(Santa Fe University of Art and Design)

Italia / 7minutes

Harry Grows Up

Falling in Love is tough. And as your first love leaves you to go to College even the New...

New York is a tough place to find love. Especially for an 18-month-old living on his own.

(Abaloon Films)

USA / 12minutes

World of Glory (Opening Scene)

(by Adam Nayman via Reverse Shot)  Note: Roy Andersson’s World of Glory is avaiable online without permission. It is officially avaiable on...

A plain, ordinary man tells us about his work as a real-estate broker, his dead father, his ordinary home and so on in a naturalistic voice, lacking any emotions.

(Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet, Studio 24)

Swden / 14minutes

Elefante

Manuel is a middle-aged man who’s profoundly unhappy with his life. He’s been working for 25 years in the...

A man is very unhappy with his life, but when he will be diagnosed with a rare syndrome, everything will change.

(Escandalo Films)

Spain / 9minutes

Noah

Out in 2013, then removed from the web, now online again, this time permanently, Noah is the debut short film,...

A “screenager romance” with a spymovie-turn between attention disorder e social networking.

(Self-produced)

Canada / 17minutes

Soy negra, soy marica y soy puta – by Hugo Meijer & Cas van der Pas

Soy negra, soy marica y soy puta (I’m Queer, I’m Black, and I’m a Prostitute) is the debut short...

A documentary about Diana Navarro, a lawyer, trade unionist and prostitute who's fighting for LGBTQ rights

(Invisible Doors)

Colombia / 21minutes

Eat My Shit

Samantha (Anna Marìa Polverosa) has taken a selfie of her face and posted it on Instagram, but it has...

The moving story of a girl whose butthole is where her mouth should be.

(The Other Side Films)

Spain / 3minutes

Modern Life is Rubbish

It’s hard to think of a more fitting title for this bittersweet story about separation and the division of...

A recently broken-up couple separating their music collection leads the way for a dissertation on love, loss and the inherent evil of greatest hits albums.

(Self-produced)

UK / 13minutes

Crowfunding: “Lindiota” – by Chiara Livia Arrigo

Chiara Livia Arrigo is a young Milanese director of Sicilian origin, who lives and works in Rome. She launched...

Life and memory of a lonly anti-hero from Lindos, between rotoscope and live footage.

(Ring Film (promo) )

Italian / 2minutes

Expo

Blending together science fiction and melodrama, Joe Sill‘s Expo is a short that combines a great visual impact to...

Science fiction and melodrama come together in this story of loss, loneliness and survival.

(Everdream Pictures )

USA / 13minutes

Papa – by Natalie Labarre

Papa is a short animated story about an eccentric and overzealous father who realizes he’s not a perfect daddy. He thinks that...

The diary of an imperfect father who tries hard to be a perfect dad.

(Cargo Collective)

USA / 6minutes

The Valley of Angels

The Valley of Angels is a project realised by Terra Project Photographers, a collective of documentary photographers founded in Florence in...

A slice of daily life of a family living secluded in the mountains in the south-eastern of Sicily.

(Terra Project Photographers)

Italy / 5minutes

Box Room – by Michael Lathrop

Jerry lives with his young mother, who is too busy enjoing her life rather than going after an introvert...

Thanks God, there is Mom!

(Lester Money Productions)

USA / Ireland / 15minutes

Requiem for Romance

A couple’s break-up call in voice-over. The images show us a man and a woman fighting, dabbing each other...

Shortlisted for the 2014 Academy Awards Best Animated short category, a story of kung-fu and forbidden love inspired by Shanghai's past.

(Self-produced)

Canada / 7minutes

Ududeagu

Before there were kings, there was a spider – life and death intertwine in Ududeagu, the intimate and mystery...

Before there were kings, there was a spider: language and body as habitat in a dark and mystery mutant experiment

(Akwaeke Emezi)

Nigeria / 2minutes

It’s No Game – by Oscar Sharp

It’s No Game is director Oscar Sharp‘s follow-up to last year short film Sunspring, written entirely by an algorithm...

In this day and age, how useful are screenwriters?

(48 Hour Film Challenge / Sci-Fi London Film Festival)

UK / 8minutes

He Took His Skin Off For Me

Basato sul racconto breve di Maria Hummer dallo stesso nome (che può essere ‘ascoltato’ qui, recitato dalla stessa autrice),...

(Student Film)

UK / 11minutes

Ennesimo Film Festival 2018, the Italian short film carnival

Welcome to Tile Valley: Ennesimo Film Festival 2018 is an illuminating example of cultural project management. From 4th to...

Welcome to Tile Valley: we went to the Ennesimo Film Festival in Fiorano Modenese and no, this is not "just another" festival report

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Cinematics – by Pier Paolo

A boring evening? Let’s challenge your friends to recognize all the films quoted in Cinematics. The experimental short film directed by...

A funny visual timeline of classic films and characters

(Self Produced)

Brazil / 1minutes