HollyShorts Film Festival 2020 Starts the Race to the Oscars

The Oscar-qualifying festival to showcase 418 short films with 128 international projects from 36 countries

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The organizers behind the 16th edition of the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival have unveiled this year’s official lineup. 418 short films have been selected with 128 international short films coming from 36 countries. For its Sweet 16, HollyShorts will take place primarily virtually via the festival’s proprietary streaming platform Bitpix from November 9-15, 2020. HollyShorts…

Summer 2020: 30 Shorts To Watch at Home To Feel on Holiday

We've put together a playlist to capture the suspended reality of this weird summer

The global coronavirus pandemic has turned the summer of 2020 into the weirdest and surreal thing ever. Time perception has changed. Some days seem to pass very slowly while some weeks, and even months, fly by. The restrictions put in place to mitigate the epidemic do change how attention and emotion affect our sense of…

Concorto Film Festival Unveils 2020 Live Programme

From 22 to 29 August the most anticipated short film festival in Italy is back: here's the official line-up

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“The human ability to imagine is related to the vision procedure and only by imagining it will be possible to see and realize a future more just for us and for the planet on which we live.” This is the mission of Concorto Film Festival, the event that has animated the Emilian summer since 2002…

Online Premiere: Black by Sara Taigher

A short film part of a wider cross-media project to brighten your soul during these days of forced quarantine

10 – 15 | 2018 | Animation | Italy | Sci-Fi

Rome, summer. One night, unexpectedly, a total blackout leaves the city without electricity. People feel paralyzed, their world is dipped in darkness. Matteo is a young electronic music producer big fan of Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk. He’s composing the songs of his new album. In a single moment, he loses all his work on…

Nigel – by Natasza Cetner

A lonely gannet falls for a concrete bird in this relatable love story

2019 | 5 - 10 | Animation | Drama | Love | UK

Nigel is the Royal College of Art’s grad short by Polish animator Natasza Cetner. The London-based director isn’t new to animating birds, and as Nigel lands online, she’s working on a new animation about the stranger-than-fiction story of a headless chicken with Irish studio Cardel. In the short, a mysterious walrus-like creature goes to some…