30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone)

First shown at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, this original documentary is a collaborative effort from artist Anne Cady,...

Oil-painted animation brings to life the stories of three powerful women in postconflict Sierra Leone.

(Real World Film)

UK / 8minutes

Online Premiere: I Navigli

A “coxless pair” slips smoothly along the calm waters of the Navigli. It passes through the city of Milan heading south-west, to...

Life and feelings of two rowers training in the placid waters of the historic canals in Milan.

(Colto produzioni)

Italy / 6minutes

Tiger Boy

Tiger Boy is the sixth short film directed by Gabriele Mainetti, Italian actor, director, composer and producer born in...

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.

(Goon Films)

Italy / 20minutes

Italian shorts at Cannes Film Festival 2015

As it is firmly established the now multi-year Italian participation at the Marché du Film Court di Clermont – Ferrand, this...

The Italian short films industry "shows off" at Marché du Film of the prestigious French festival, thanks to the support of the Italian Short Film Centre.

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Dia de Los Muertos

Just like Alice goes dan the rabbit hole, Nina enters the world of the dead through a blue flower....

On the Day of the Dead, a traditional Mexican festivity, little Nina goes to visit her mother's grave, initiating a magical journey int a colorful and festive afterlife.

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USA / 3minutes

Panorama – by Gianluca Abbate

Panorama, world premiered at the International Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand Short Film 2014, is the animated short film directed by Gianluca...

A polis stretches away over an infinite global space with no more uninhabited places nor frontiers

(Self-Produced)

Italy / 7minutes

Berliner

“Friendliness”: this is the word that, according to young Turkish director Elif Kalkan, best describes Berlin. And it is...

An ode with elegiac tones that celebrates the German capital through the faces of its inhabitants and the intimacy of their homes.

(Bahçeşehir Üniversites )

Turkey / 2minutes

The Life & Death of an iPhone

Needless to deny: most of us live attached to the phone. A form of technological autism entirely contemporary, that even...

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

(Project Fathom)

USA / 7minutes

Box

“Box” is a “demonstrative” shortfilm published by Bot & Dolly, a San Francisco-based production house specialized in robotics, automation and shooting...

The first world experiment of 3D mapping on 2D objects in motion achieved via remote control of two industrial robots and the combined use of different technologies.

(Bot & Dolly )

USA / 5minutes

Dealer

In late December 2013 the elusive British musician William Bevan, aka Burial, published an unannounced EP, The Rival Dealer....

A nocturne crime story inspired by and set to Burial's Rival Dealer.

(The Sweetshop)

UK / 11minutes

Jonah

Kibwe Tavares is one of  UK’s most exciting young directors. An achitecture grad with a lifelong love of cinema,...

A tale full of surprises and special effects narrates the destructive consequences of fame and wealth in the life of a boy from Zanzibar.

(BFI Film Fund)

UK / 18minutes

Sequence – by Carles Torrens

The common saying “the man or woman of your dreams” is mostly referred to an unreachable ideal, which is...

Daydreaming could be so dangerous...

(Fortress Features)

Spain / 20minutes

N U M B – by Anders Weberg

To film an absence may seem an unsolvable oxymoron. Similarly, using a camera just like a tool that is...

Appearance and disappearance: A touching tribute in memory of a son

(Self Produced)

Sweden / 1minutes

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

FOCUS ON: Where You Are by Graham Parkes

Graham Parkes is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and independent game designer from Los Angeles. His last short film Where You Are...

Interview with the American director "who takes his work seriously, but not himself"

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Malatesta Short Film Festival Unveils Its First Edition Line-Up

Three days of screenings, premieres and Q&As with directors dedicated to short films: the first edition of Malatesta Short...

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

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The Pavement

The pavement, the night, those eyes, the glass, the red, the smoke, those lips, her touch, the pavement… Wait,...

The city at night, a couple, a gunshot... nothing is what it seems in this innovative and highly suspenseful neo-noir.

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USA / 3minutes

Split

The man (Austin Hayden) and the woman (Shian Denovan). He cheated on her, she left him. Pale and disheveled,...

A man suffers in a peculiar way after splitting up from his girlfriend: lies and guilt lead him through an extreme physical reaction…

(Shining Example Films)

UK / 17minutes

Kung Fury

Kung Fury is a medium-length film (30 ‘), written and directed by the young Swede...

A cop martial arts expert is sent back in time to defeat Hitler.

(Laser Unicorns)

Sweden / 30minutes

Wrinkles of the City: Focus On Guillaume Cagniard

Wrinkles of the City is an artistic project started in 2008 by French artist JR. The project was realized...

Interview with Guillaume Cagnaird and his short about the work of artist JR

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Robbie

The use of found footage is quite common in contemporary cinema. A recurring device in horror and science fiction,...

The incredible story of a robot, made using only NASA's archival footage.

(Self-produced)

Australia / 8minutes

Online Premiere: Terra

A regular night on a ferry headed to Sicily. It’s presumably Winter, one of those off-season trips in which...

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

(CSC)

Italy / 23minutes

Online Premiere: Il Fischietto (The Whistle)

Il Fischietto (The Whistle) is the debut shortfilm by Roman director Lamberto Sanfelice, produced by ANG Film in collaboration with...

The story of a little girl facing a traumatic event and her personal way of acceptance.

(ANG Film / Asmara Film)

Italy / 15minutes

Leonard in Slow Motion

The world is increasingly faster for everyone, but what happens when you live in slow-motion? A bathroom break might take...

Leonard moves in slow motion, but lives in a normally-paced world.

(Lawrence Lewis, Barbara Livolsi)

USA / 9minutes