The Shift

American suburbs, 1964. An ordinary day in the life of an ordinary man. Joe, our protagonist, comes home from...

1964. Joe's seemingly ordinary day takes a bad turn, as he comes home to find out that his wife hasn't been cooking dinner. And there's a very good reason for that.

(Eppich Films )

USA / 9minutes

Project X – by Laura Poitras and Henrik Moltke

Not many people know that AT&T has installed NSA surveillance equipment in at least 5 of its Internet and...

From the director of Citizenfour, narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, a journey into NSA's NYC surveillance hub

(Field of Vision, The Intercept)

USA / 10minutes

The Valley of Angels

The Valley of Angels is a project realised by Terra Project Photographers, a collective of documentary photographers founded in Florence in...

A slice of daily life of a family living secluded in the mountains in the south-eastern of Sicily.

(Terra Project Photographers)

Italy / 5minutes

Godard’s Message

A pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, Jean- Luc Godard had a huge influence on modern cinema,  givig it a...

"Khan Khanne": Jean-Luc Godard's videoletter to Cannes' president Gilles Jacob: a testament for tomorrow's cinema.

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Larry – by Jacob Chase

A man is working in a parking lot at night. Trying to pass the time, he discovers an abandoned...

A man, a parking lot, a friendship: a tender and scary tale about our loneliness

(Jacob Chase)

USA / 5minutes

The Italian short film (potential) industry.

Is there an Italian “short film industry”? Is there an economy linked to short film sector at all? These are...

The "Report 2014" of the Italian Short Film Centre sheds a light on an key-sector of the audiovisual that struggles to define itself "industrial".

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“My Self”: the intimate diary of Jennifer Medina

Jennifer Medina is a Venezuelan photographer and video maker, based in New York City. Her works sweetly look at...

The selfie generation seen by the young Venezuelan artist's eyes.

(Self produced)

USA / 1minutes

The Mourners (The Marcy Method)

It is quite rare that emerging Italian short film directors challenge themselves in genres such as thriller, horror, grotesque...

From our submissions: an horror made of obsessions, fears and lack of scruples to achieve the perfect shape.

(Work In Progress)

Italy / 13minutes

Alien Attack from the Interspace – by Alessio Gonnella

Sci-fi in Italy is possible. Thinking about Italian cinematographic difficulties to approach this genre, it seems just an oxymoron....

Sci-fi in Italy is possible, but... How can the trumpet save us all?

(Festina Lente)

Italy / 24minutes

Blinky™

In a not-so-distant future anyone will be able to have their own personal assistant: the heavily advertised Blinky™. An...

(Image Now Films, Alturas Films, Logolite Entertainment)

Ireland / USA / 13minutes

Belly

Ever shifting between tender and darker tones, this little coming-of-age tale draws us into a surreal fantasy world that’s...

A coming of age tale about brotherhood, friendship and separation.

(Royal College of Art )

UK / 8minutes

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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Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2014

A “SPECIAL” WELCOME INDEED. We are at the opening of the 60th edition of the International Short Film Festival...

In its 60th anniversary, Oberhausen sets out to discover a "cinema without film" between experimentation, memory and absence.

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Sundance Film Festival 2017 Announces Shorts Programs: Taste These 7 Shorts

Sundance Film Festival has announced its 2017 Shorts Programs. The 68 shorts round out a program of Competition and...

Seven shorts to watch online from the 68 programmed to play over January 19-29 in Park City

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Memorize

2027. A new way to fight crime. Everyone is implanted with a chip that allows to register every single...

How to fight crime in an high-tech, action packed future? Through a chip that records our entire lives.

(Adapt Productions )

Sweden / 7minutes

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

The Most Astounding Fact

In an interview with Time, astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson shares his personal and poetic perspective on the wonders of...

“What’s the most astounding fact you can share with us about the universe?” The astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson answers.

(Self-produced)

USA / 4minutes

Bear – by Pascal Floerks

It’s really hard to say, perhaps Bear (Bär) is a documentary, perhaps a short animation. Certainly it’s the final...

A mysterious and personal story about the director's grandfather

(Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)

Germany / 8minutes

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

Soy negra, soy marica y soy puta – by Hugo Meijer & Cas van der Pas

Soy negra, soy marica y soy puta (I’m Queer, I’m Black, and I’m a Prostitute) is the debut short...

A documentary about Diana Navarro, a lawyer, trade unionist and prostitute who's fighting for LGBTQ rights

(Invisible Doors)

Colombia / 21minutes

Conventional

Mostly known as Amy Pond in “Doctor Who” or the Nebula of “The Guardians of the Galaxy”, Scottish actress Karen...

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

(FunSize Horror)

UK / 9minutes

Online Premiere: Riverbero

An armchair, some electrical appliances, a few glimpses of a deserted Turin… Solemn camera movements lead us through different...

A "Border Film" suspended between video art and science that shows us how to capture a sound.

(MyBossWas)

Italy / 15minutes

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

Transmission – by Varun Raman and Tom Hancock

After a long and extremely successful run in the festival circuit, British dystopian short film Transmission is now available...

Welcome To Britannia. Together We Stand Alone.

(Parallel Madness)

UK / 18minutes