The Missing Scarf

One morning, Albert the squirrel wakes up and realizes that his beloved scarf is gone. This unpleasant discovery leads...

An apparent children's story turns out to be a philosophical reflection on overcoming a loss, through existentialism, nihilism and minimal graphics.

(Creative Belly Ltd.)

Ireland / 7minutes

Online Premiere: Child Love by Giulio Donato

At a summer camp all the kids behave in a strange way, very little actively. A boy falls in...

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

(Play Entertainment )

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Shorts not to miss at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival

The 2015 Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week, and the shorts film program is comprised of 60 films...

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Envelope

Some feelings are universal. The apprehensive await for a the mailman and the important letter he’s bringing. Evgeniy’s passion since...

An innovative thriller starring Kevin Spacey, set in the Russia's Cold War era.

(Trigger Street Productions)

Russia / 17minutes

Phantom Limb

A phantom limb is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached to the body and is moving...

In the aftermath of a terrible incident, a young couple has to deal with phantom pains.

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Australia / 5minutes

The Optimist

The Optimist is a debut short film made by young and talented John Mervin, an eighteen year old boy...

A young book lover tries desperately to get the book everyone else has.

(A Chocolate Thunder Production)

USA / 4minutes

Papa – by Natalie Labarre

Papa is a short animated story about an eccentric and overzealous father who realizes he’s not a perfect daddy. He thinks that...

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

(Cargo Collective)

USA / 6minutes

Lost Cubert

Cubert’s life revolves around his monotonous and repetitive work. He repeats the same actions every day, in the cold...

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

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Germany / 6minutes

Paralys – by John Boisen & Björn Fävremark

John Boisen and Björn Fävremark are specialists in the materialisation of nightmares and private demons. They move through the...

The experience of a sleep paralysis (that you shouldn't watch alone...)

(Is This It)

Sweden / 8minutes

Sara – by Rossella Inglese

Sara’s just 12 years old when she is confronted with discovering the experience of become a woman. Escorted into...

Sara's just 12 years old when she is confronted with discovering the experience of become a woman

(Fedra Film)

Italy / 6minutes

10 Doc Shorts That Made the Oscars 2017 Shortlist

Ranging from the Syrian refugee crisis to the shooting of Walter Scott, the 10 doc shorts that made the...

Ranging from the Syrian refugee crisis to the shooting of Walter Scott, the Academy shortlist

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Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Waste (Yaderni wydhody) is the striking fourth short film by Ukrainian director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, following Incident (2006), Diagnosis (2009) and Deafness (2010) which represent some kind...

He is a truck-driver at a radioactive wastes utilization plant. She works at the plant's decontamination laundry.

(Arthouse Traffic, Volodymyr Tykhyy)

Ukraine / 23minutes

The Walrus

“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together,” so John Lennon...

The Walrus is feeling depressed. He has everything, but feels something is missing in his life... Are you Walrus?

(Luke Randall)

USA / 7minutes

Harry Grows Up

Falling in Love is tough. And as your first love leaves you to go to College even the New...

New York is a tough place to find love. Especially for an 18-month-old living on his own.

(Abaloon Films)

USA / 12minutes

The Cosmic Dope – A Plant Experience – by CLEMENTE

The Cosmic Dope – A Plant Experience by the Brazilian director CLEMENTE, born in San Paolo, is presented as...

The experimentation of the effects of a new and unknown species of orchid: an impeccable style exercise

(Paranoid)

Brazil / 5minutes

Focus On: Federica Gianni, Director of Primo and The Friend from Tel Aviv

Federica Gianni‘s gaze upon the world is unusual. It’s piercing and slanted. She is a NYC-based Italian writer/director and...

At MedFilm Festival, we met Federica Gianni, who told us about her short films: watch the online premieres of The Friend from Tel Aviv and Primo

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Fighting the Ebola Outbreak, Street by Street.

An ambulance with blaring sirens runs through the crowded streets of Monrovia, capital of Liberia, one of regions mostly...

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

(New York Times)

USA / 7minutes

Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother

Tom Hardy stars as Sergeant Dan in this short film that marks the directorial debut of photographer Greg Williams....

Tom Hardy plays a temperamental aspiring soldier in a story of brotherly love and strife.

(HenPeg & Loki Productions)

USA / 13minutes

8 Hours in Brooklyn

Filmed over a  period of  8 hours in Brooklyn using a Phantom Flex – a special camera that slows...

A slow-motion ride along the streets of Brooklyn, NYC.

(Variable)

USA / 3minutes

Ghost

The grief process is a recurring theme throughout the history of cinema. Extremely subjective and universal at the same...

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

(Self Produced)

Denmark / 8minutes

Next Floor

Next Floor is the surreal short film made by  Canadian writer-director Denis Villeneuve that plunges us into an opulent...

During an opulent and luxurious banquet, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage.

(Phi Group)

Canada / 10minutes

Don’t Forget My Words – by Riccardo Rabacchi

The short film by the Italian director Riccardo Rabacchi carries strong echoes of a Woody Allen’s movie. This comparison...

A young man with confused ideas finds himself in a weird theatre of the absurd

(Image Hunters, Dispàrte, Tropico del Libro)

Italia / 7minutes

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

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

Concorto Film Festival 2019 does not disappoint. The Italian event (from August 17th to August 24th in Pontenure, part...

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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