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…

Nov 7, 2020

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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…

Aug 1, 2020

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The White Wall Gives Asbestos Warriors a Voice

Exclusively on Good Short Films, the trailer for the upcoming short film by Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi, selected at Clermont-Ferrand 2020

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A story of grief, based on sadly true events, to report the incurable disease of asbestos, ending with a “surreal, almost dreamlike” twist. The White Wall is the new short film directed by Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi, and explores the people and lives dealing with the impact of the killing fiber. The short is…

Jan 31, 2020

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Lago Film Fest 2020, The Woodstock Of Short Films Wants You

From 24 July to 1 August, Revine Lago is taken over by Italy's biggest short films party: the call is open

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Nine days of screenings, premieres, events, concerts, workshops, artistic performances and meetings. This year (from 24 July to 1 August, 2020) marks the sixteenth edition of Lago Film Fest, the International Festival of Independent Cinema. There is nothing to do: Lago with its programme confirms as a an absolute godsend for fans of short and…

Jan 25, 2020

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Angie Rowntree, the Rebel of Feminist Porn: “Pleasure Empowers Us, It Humanizes Us”

We met the founder of Sssh.com, who tells us her way to represent sexuality and her last two films.

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Continuing our journey into the world of feminist porn and its short films. This time our coverage of sexuality representation far from the mainstream shores gets us onto Sssh.com, the oldest feminist porn site on the web having started in 1999. Founder and director Angie Rowntree has spoken at SXSW with Shine Louise Houston (CrashPad…

Nov 1, 2019

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Concorto Film Festival 2019: the Italian Fefreshing Oasis of Short Films

From August 17th to 24th in Pontenure (Piacenza), in the suggestive location of Parco Raggio, the 18th edition of the event: 51 shorts in competition, focus, workshops and lots of music

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Concorto Film Festival 2019 does not disappoint. The Italian event (from August 17th to August 24th in Pontenure, part of the province of Piacenza) has itself become a reference in the genre over time. The 18th edition is no exception with its impressive numbers: 51 short films in competition, 2 geographical focuses (Russia and Portugal),…

Aug 3, 2019

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

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

Exclusively on Good Short Films, the trailer for the upcoming short film by Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi, selected at Clermont-Ferrand 2020

From 24 July to 1 August, Revine Lago is taken over by Italy's biggest short films party: the call is open

We met the founder of Sssh.com, who tells us her way to represent sexuality and her last two films.

From August 17th to 24th in Pontenure (Piacenza), in the suggestive location of Parco Raggio, the 18th edition of the event: 51 shorts in competition, focus, workshops and lots of music

On Replay

Bite of the Tail

Four characters struggling to find an elusive truth, and a snake that creeps inside their everyday lives.

Online Preview: La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak / Butter Lamp

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

Chop My Money – by Theo Anthony

This world is not the world: a day in the life of three street kids in the Eastern Congo

The Moment – by Karis Oh

What really matters in the end of life?

The Life & Death of an iPhone

Life, death, and reincarnation of an iPhone from its point-of-view. An original perspective on our relatoinship with technology.

Distortion – by Grégory Papinutto

A weird, disturbing and terrifying slasher about mind-altering mutations

The Story of 90 Coins – by Michael Wong

A genre film about gender roles, and the experience of love through promise, misunderstanding and regret.

Yardbird

A solitary young girl is forced to come out of hiding to face the town bullies, but the thing she fears the most is herself.

The Surreal Animations of Jan Švankmajer

As the Milano Film Festival hosts a retrospective on Jan Švankmajer, we take a look at the career of the great Czech director and animator.

Ghost

The ghost of a little girl wanders through a dark and spooky city as her parents mourn her passing.

Similo

A sci-fi romance set in a dystopian future questions about artificial love and the future of humanity. (NSFW)

Soar – by Alyce Tzue

A young girl must help a tiny boy pilot fly home before it's too late.

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

FOCUS ON: Fisnik Maxhuni

Interview with the director of Lost Exile, awarded at Locarno Film Festival

Redesigning Christmas

What's Christmas like when your parents are both modernism-loving architects?

The Six Dollar Fifty Man

A festival favorite, this dramedy shows how hard it is to be a "superhero" in a suburban school in the 70s.

Borrowed Time – by Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj

American animation comes out of its comfort zone and tells the drama

A Reasonable Request – by Andrew Laurich

How to re-build a father-son relationship in an unconventional way.

Rise – by David Karlak

A justified revolt of the machines.

The Herd

Know what you are consuming...

The Mistery of Flying Kicks

A brilliant "collabortaivo short-doc" about the urban mystery of sneakers hanging from overhead power lines.

Pablo’s Villa

Pablo Novak lives alone in the submerged Argentine ghost town of Villa Epecuén: this is his fascinating and incredible story

Otherhalf – by Ben West

A literal conflict with themselves, by Framestore

Ouro – by Pierre-Jean Le Moël & Eva Jiahui Gao

A fairytale in action about vengeance, Ouroboros, and the power of women