Canada | Good Short Films

Sunday – by Patrick Doyon

It’s a cold Sunday in wintertime. Sunday immediately brings us back to our childhood and, for a moment, we really...

An animation that brings the unexpected in an ordinary family lunch

(National Film Board of Canada)

Canada / 10minutes
The Chickening – by Nick DenBoer and Davy Force

It’s not so easy to talk about what Nick DenBoer and Davy Force‘s The Chickening really is. A parody? Maybe. A trailer?...

A parody? Maybe. A trailer? Possibly. An animation? Partially. A short film? Why not.

(Cineballs)

Canada / 5minutes
Ormie – by Rob Silvestri

Ormie is a pig (in every sense of the word) and he has one goal: eat. Food is his...

Ormie is a pig, in every sense of the word: see his attempts to gain the warm sweet taste that is his obsession

(Starz Animation Toronto)

Canada / 4minutes
Code 8 – by Jeff Chan

In the last few years short film has been act as a springboard for a lot of young directors,...

Reality and fiction are melting in Code 8, your next sci-fi cult.

(Colony Pictures)

USA / 10minutes
Noah

Out in 2013, then removed from the web, now online again, this time permanently, Noah is the debut short film,...

A “screenager romance” with a spymovie-turn between attention disorder e social networking.

(Self-produced)

Canada / 17minutes
Redesigning Christmas

Architects love Christmas. There’s a very simple reason for that: it is’s such a poorly designed holiday, and each...

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

(National Film Board of Canada )

Canada / 2minutes

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Sunday – by Patrick Doyon

An animation that brings the unexpected in an ordinary family lunch

The Chickening – by Nick DenBoer and Davy Force

A parody? Maybe. A trailer? Possibly. An animation? Partially. A short film? Why not.

Ormie – by Rob Silvestri

Ormie is a pig, in every sense of the word: see his attempts to gain the warm sweet taste that is his obsession

Code 8 – by Jeff Chan

Reality and fiction are melting in Code 8, your next sci-fi cult.

Noah

A “screenager romance” with a spymovie-turn between attention disorder e social networking.

Redesigning Christmas

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

On Replay

Random Stop

A gripping first person POV reenactment of the tragic last moments of the life of a police officer.

Berlin, Berlin

More than just a city, a category of the mind: the passionate ode to Berlin by Nehemias Colindres.

Dia de Los Muertos

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.

Ormie – by Rob Silvestri

Ormie is a pig, in every sense of the word: see his attempts to gain the warm sweet taste that is his obsession

Italian shorts at Cannes Film Festival 2015

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.

Robbie

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

He Took His Skin Off For Me

Online Preview: The Snake

A night chase where "nothing is as it seems", in this award-winning Italian thriller.

The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey Danger

The adventurous love story of a young couple escaping dinosaurs through spaceships and submarines.

Fighting the Ebola Outbreak, Street by Street.

The New York Times' shortdoc on Ebola's outbreak in Liberia, redefines the boundaries between news and narrative.

The Last Ice Merchant (El Último Hielero)

The life of Ecuador's last ice merchant tells a story of change and traditions.

The Shaman

In the dark year 2204, Joshua is a Shaman sent on a mission to convert the soul of a giant battle colossus

Expo

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

Online Premiere: Child Love by Giulio Donato

A kid courts a girl with small gestures, but it is a love that goes beyond space-time and becomes an allegory of the cycle of life

Anteprima Trailer: Merry Go Round

Following shocking discoveries about the double life of his father, a guy has to decide who he really wants to be.

FOCUS ON: Tamar Rudoy

Interview with the Israeli director of Daughter of the Bride, premiered at Cannes 2016 Directors' Fortnight

Crowfunding: “Lindiota” – by Chiara Livia Arrigo

Life and memory of a lonly anti-hero from Lindos, between rotoscope and live footage.

Analogue People in a Digital Age

As the analogue age draws to a close, eight men sit in an Irish bar and battle to remain relevant in the digital world.

The Eagleman Stag

An innovative and staggeringly beautiful stop motion story about life and the passage of time. Best Animation at BAFTA 2011.

Ennesimo Film Festival 2018, the Italian short film carnival

Welcome to Tile Valley: we went to the Ennesimo Film Festival in Fiorano Modenese and no, this is not "just another" festival report

Lost Cubert

The monotonous and repetitive work of an everyday man suddenly turns into an Escherian nightmare.

Jonah

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

Happiness – by Steve Cutts

Can we buy happiness? Are we really trapped? An economic textbook about our contemporary society

Online Premiere: The Show MAS Go On

Artist Rä di Martino celebrates MAS , the Roman famed "department stores of the people", with a art-doc poised between fiction and reality.