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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Cannes Court Métrage 2019: The Short Films Selection

A look at the 11 short films competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or and the 17 films from the Cinéfondation

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The 72nd Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup of Cannes Court Métrage 2019. The programme features 11 short films (9 works of fictions, 1 documentary and 1 animation), from Albania, Argentina, France, Finland, Greece, Israel, Ukraine, Sweden and USA. The selection committee has viewed 4240 shorts. High-profile films in the lineup include The Nap…

Apr 19, 2019

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MiMo – Milano Mobile Film Festival: How to Make a Short on Your Smartphone

The second edition of the mobile festival will end on June 8-9 and the winners will be awarded with... a personalized plant!

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MiMo – Milano Mobile Film Festival is the first mobile festival in Italy. It takes place in the inspiring setting of the historic center of Milan and it’s dedicated to works – videos and photos – made exclusively with mobile devices as smartphones, tablets, action cameras, and drones. As the French counterpart Mobile Film Festival,…

Apr 17, 2019

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The Short Films of Agnès Varda

An overview of some of the French New Wave filmmaker's most remarkable short films

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Probably one of the most remarkable traits of Agnès Varda’s filmography is that she never cared too much for the format of her films. She really wasn’t big on conventions. She once said: “Not even the least important of the painters or the writers have someone imposing to them the measure of their canvas, nor…

Apr 14, 2019

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Jimmy Page: An Animated Short Film Chronicles The Story Behind Led Zeppelin Guitar

The 1959 Fender Telecaster was a gift from Jeff Beck and now Page shares the psychedelic story of that instrument

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Jimmy Page without his Fender Telecaster is like Thor without his hammer Mjöllnir. The history of this magical instrument has become an animated short film, made by Fender in collaboration with the Led Zeppelin guitarist. The short, directed by Smith & Foulkes (the London-based duo behind the Oscar-nominated This Way Up), is voice narrated by…

Apr 10, 2019

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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

A look at the 11 short films competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or and the 17 films from the Cinéfondation

The second edition of the mobile festival will end on June 8-9 and the winners will be awarded with... a personalized plant!

An overview of some of the French New Wave filmmaker's most remarkable short films

The 1959 Fender Telecaster was a gift from Jeff Beck and now Page shares the psychedelic story of that instrument

On Replay

Conventional

A horror film actress deals with her fall from stardom and learn the true nature of the genre.

Expo

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

7:35 in the Morning

One morning a woman enters a restaurant – only to be met with silence instead of people talking...

FOCUS ON: William Laboury

Memory as an archive of images in the works of the young French director and graphic designer.

Lights Out – by David F. Sandberg

"Per aspera ad astra": from indie to major.

Kokosmos – by Anna Radchenko

A hymn to cosmic enthusiasm in socialist societies, coming up online (not for nothing) on Russia's Cosmonautics Day

Hyper-Reality – by Keiichi Matsuda

The Anglo-Japanese director describes a daily world dominated by technology

Albatross Soup – by Winnie Cheung

A psychedelic animation that explores the creative thinking generated by a famous riddle

Malatesta Short Film Festival Unveils Its First Edition Line-Up

Find out these 10 shorts you can watch online from the MalatestaShort official selection

The Pub

The inner nature of a pub's daily clientele comes to life in this rotoscoping animation short.

Bear – by Pascal Floerks

A mysterious and personal story about the director's grandfather

Sleepwalk

The presage of the end is consumed in front of our eyes, but there is still time for a last love gesture.

Double King – by Felix Colgrave

An animated short film about love... and regicide

Killing Klaus Kinski – by Spiros Stathoulopoulos

The vertiginous reimagination of a myth of the history of film: the filming of Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog

Support the superheroes

The short film in support of medical research in collaboration with the biopharmaceutical group Dompè. Share #SostieniiSupereroi

Calcio Storico (Historic Football)

No rules, only one ball and two narrow slits where to throw it in: it's the "calcio storico fiorentino", forerunner of the modern soccer.

Tiger Boy

From the director of They Call Me Jeeg Robot, the story of Matteo, a nine year old kid whose hero is a wrestler of a Roman suburb called The Tiger.

Online Premiere: Terra

Various human types meet on a night ferry's regular trip.

Sunspring – by Oscar Sharp

A happy medium between technophobia and Skynet: A short film written by algorithm

Modern Life is Rubbish

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.

The Arab Series #3: War On Famous Canvas

Syrian war scenes swarm the famous paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci, Salvador Dalí, Pieter Brueghel and Paul Gauguin

Papa – by Natalie Labarre

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

Fucking Bunnies – by Teemu Niukkanen

What would you do if your new neighbor was the warm and friendly leader of a satanic cult?

Guilt – by Moisés Aisemberg

"Dulce Doror" director offers us a short film about sexual impulses in adolescence and child abuse