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

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

The 6 Best Iranian Short Films In the Past Years

When talking about Iranian cinema and their films, names like Ashghar Farhadi, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and a lot...

Not only Ashghar Farhadi and Jafar Panahi: a new generation of young directors is making the Iranian cinema so proud

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Berlin, Berlin

Berlin, Berlin is the poignant “visual poem” by young American director of Salvadoran origin Nehemias Colindres dedicated to the dynamic...

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

(Betti Berlin)

Germany / 2minutes

Similo

2065. The entire planet is facing the climate change aftermath. One of the few habitable places left is Antarctica,...

A sci-fi romance set in a dystopian future questions about artificial love and the future of humanity. (NSFW)

(Blackmeal)

Spain / 22minutes

Online Preview: La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak / Butter Lamp

The online preview is ended. You can still watch the trailer and read the review! Starting from a very...

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

(Ama Productions)

France / China / 16minutes

Pablo’s Villa

Villa Epecuén is a suggestive town 500 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Back in the 1920s, a tourist...

Pablo Novak lives alone in the submerged Argentine ghost town of Villa Epecuén: this is his fascinating and incredible story

(Urtext Films)

Australia / 7minutes

The Chair of Life – by Carlos Valle

What holds two sisters-in-law together over a lifetime? Carmen and María are two old ladies who support each other...

The short film awarded with the First Prize at Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival 2016: a touching reflection about old age

(Auntie Films)

Spain / 10minutes

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

The Robbery – by Jim Cummings

After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 2016 with Thunder Road, Jim Cummings renews his participation to...

After Thunder Road, another dark comedy where a robbery doesn't go so well

(Fullscreen)

USA / 9minutes

Past Forward, David O. Russell’s Star-Studded Prada Short Film

Past Forward is the multi-platform short film collaboration between Miuccia Prada and David O. Russell. A “cinema poem,” a surreal,...

The acclaimed director filmed a surreal, futuristic silent "cinema poem" in black & white

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Online Premiere: Black by Sara Taigher

Rome, summer. One night, unexpectedly, a total blackout leaves the city without electricity. People feel paralyzed, their world is...

A short film part of a wider cross-media project to brighten your soul during these days of forced quarantine

(So What Pictures)

Italy / 14minutes

In Dreams

To make his graduate film from Northumbria University, British animator Samuel Blain decided to direct a documentary about ordinary...

An experimental documentary about people's dreams, that feels like a modern take on surrealism.

(Student film)

UK / 3minutes

The Surreal Animations of Jan Švankmajer

When The Guardian asked Terry Gilliam to pick his ten favorite animated films, the director included Dimensions of Dialogue,...

As the Milano Film Festival hosts a retrospective on Jan Švankmajer, we take a look at the career of the great Czech director and animator.

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From Dad to Son – by Nils Knoblich

A prisoner receives the message that his old father needs help with care of the farm. In his desperate...

Son's love... in papercraft

(Kunsthochschule Kassel)

Germany / 6minutes

Runaway

“Runaway” is a delightful award-winning “student animated films” made by Huen Sin (Susan) Yung, Emily Buchanan and Esther Parobek...

A charming tale about a misunderstanding between a boy named Stanley and Chillie, his treasured 1950's refrigerator.

(Student Film)

USA / 4minutes

Junkyard

This animation by Dutch animator Hisko Hulsing has won 22 awards in many festivals across the world, and not by chance. It’s...

A man is stabbed in the subway. In the last seconds before he dies, a teenage friendship flashes before his eyes.

(il Luster Films, Cinété)

Netherlands / 18minutes

Soar – by Alyce Tzue

Soar is the story of a young girl Mara who dreams of one day building airplanes. She builds these...

A young girl must help a tiny boy pilot fly home before it's too late.

(Student Film (Anson Yu))

USA / 7minutes

Diary

Diary is a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made...

10 years of war reporting around the world in this moving and very powerful video-testament by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington.

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UK / 19minutes

Wind

A distant land where the entire social system is based on the power of the wind. Strong and relentless,...

The everyday activities of the inhabitants of an extremely windy area are hard. But what if the wind stopped blowing?

(HAW Hamburg Department Design)

Germany / 4minutes

Runaway – by Emily Buchanan, Susan Yung and Esther Parobek

In the Internet of Things era, loving a refrigerator will not be so weird. Probably it’ll be easy to...

The best time of the year to love your refrigerator

(Paper Planes)

USA / 4minutes

Cannes 2016: Luca Tóth

At Cannes’ Critics Week, Luca Tóth premiered her second animated short Superbia, produced by Péter Benjámin Lukács with the score by Csaba Kalotás. Luca was...

Surreal, evocative, humorous: the 2D animated work of the Hungarian filmmaker

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

Jimmy Page without his Fender Telecaster is like Thor without his hammer Mjöllnir. The history of this magical instrument...

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

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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