Paralys
Happiness
Thunder Road
Jim Cummings
The Boy With a Camera for a Face
Spencer Brown
Dulce Dolor
Moisés Aisemberg
Eat My Shit
Eduardo Casanova
Winner of SXSW Best Animation Short in 2018, Alexa Lim Haas’ animation Agua Viva is a poetic animation about communication, words and feelings that words cannot express. Protagonist of the short is a Chinese girl who works as a beautician in a Miami beauty salon. MeiMei (her name quickly appears on a badge she is…
2018 has been a banner year for short films. The increasing diversity and originality of artistic ideas peak, as always, with our final tally for the year’s finest short films. Some of the most inspiring films were made by women, others are built on the absences of the past—and their ghostly emanations. But what matters…
Belly Flop is a short film inspired by perseverance. Directed by Jeremy Collins and Kelly Dillon, this is the funny story of Penny, a fearless girl who tries to steal the scene from a talented diver. Produced by the South African animation studio Triggerfish Animation, Belly Flop was named Best Animation at the AMA Awards in Rwanda. It has also…
Federica Gianni‘s gaze upon the world is unusual. It’s piercing and slanted. She is a NYC-based Italian writer/director and her short films explore the different expressions of contemporary masculinity, the struggle between belonging and otherness, the (re)self-discovery, the explosion of desire and the deception of feelings. She did it by focusing on suspension of her…
Sebastian is the first short film written and directed by Sam Fragoso, formerly a film critic and actually the host of Talk Easy podcast. This piece tells in 3 minutes what is America today, the one president Donald Trump wants to arm by sending home the South-American migrants who push to the borders. Sebastian is based…
Alejandro G. Iñárritu has decided to take on the challenge of virtual reality and short film. The two-time Oscar-winning...
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Many of the problems that plague our small terrestrial existences can be often “solved” with a change of perspective,...
(Student Film (Sheridan College))
Canada / 4minutes
After many years of marriage, Walter and Madge have grown distant from each other, to the point that they...
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UK / 10minutes
The online preview is expired, but you can still read the review and watch the trailer. In the Kurdish...
(Clin d’oeil Films)
Turkey / 15minutes
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that technology plays an important role in our lives. A couple of weeks...
(Fractal)
UK / 6minutes
2018 has been a banner year for short films. The increasing diversity and originality of artistic ideas peak, as...
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A man cries while listening an old tape, we hear the voice of a woman talking about how she...
(Collaboration Factory)
USA / 11minutes
Andre Hyland, the author of this surreal short, is what in Italy we’d lovingly call an “adorable dick”, which...
(Self-produced)
USA / 7minutes
Can a Rubik’s Cube still be an intriguing game for millennials? It is probably the question that the animators...
(Polder Animation)
Netherlands / 7minutes
The pavement, the night, those eyes, the glass, the red, the smoke, those lips, her touch, the pavement… Wait,...
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USA / 3minutes
Jack Dunphy mixes love and humour, cutout paper characters and death. Serenity is a profound story made of simple elements. Serenity was...
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What is MAS? Let’s explain it to non-roman citizens. It is a legendary shop in Rome, nearby Piazza Vittorio, in...
(Produzione Illuminati / Think Cattleya / Federica Maria Bianchi (Snaporazverein))
Italian / 30minutes
An ambulance with blaring sirens runs through the crowded streets of Monrovia, capital of Liberia, one of regions mostly...
(New York Times)
USA / 7minutes
A tattoo is for life… so what if you regret it? This one of the most frequently asked questions...
(Michelle Woodward)
Canada / 13minutes
An American actor with a questionable french accent, set to play a frenchman in a city that should be...
(Self-produced)
UK / 6minutes
Is there an Italian “short film industry”? Is there an economy linked to short film sector at all? These are...
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In a not-so-distant future, a father and his teenage daughter are on an alien planet looking for precious materials....
(Shepfilms)
USA / 14minutes
Timothy Higgins recalls his entire life on the day of his ninth birthday. He’s constantly thinking about suicide. Written and...
(Modern Family Productions )
Canada / 14minutes
The perfect set for this interview would have been a bar with wooden interiors, half-light, three cocktails dripping condensation and even cigars. What...
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The importance of the festival and the Italian presence in Clermont-Ferrand. Located at the bottom of a chain of...
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The grief process is a recurring theme throughout the history of cinema. Extremely subjective and universal at the same...
(Self Produced)
Denmark / 8minutes
A boring evening? Let’s challenge your friends to recognize all the films quoted in Cinematics. The experimental short film directed by...
(Self Produced)
Brazil / 1minutes
A couple’s break-up call in voice-over. The images show us a man and a woman fighting, dabbing each other...
(Self-produced)
Canada / 7minutes