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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

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

Expo

Blending together science fiction and melodrama, Joe Sill‘s Expo is a short that combines a great visual impact to...

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

(Everdream Pictures )

USA / 13minutes

The Christmas Light Killer

Every night in December people in a small suburb of Philadelphia flock to a holiday light show. They drive...

A man spends his December nights shutting down the power for a huge holiday light show. What is his point?

(Pocket Storm)

USA / 6minutes

FOCUS ON: Tamar Rudoy

Daughter of the Bride premiered at Cannes 2016 Directors’ Fortnight. Written by Timna Rose Perez and directed by Tamar Rudoy, the short...

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

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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

Pilgrims – by John Doan

What time can do to a man? Joseph Brodsky’s obsession becomes flesh in John Doan’s body. Based on the...

What time can do to a man? Joseph Brodsky's obsession becomes a short film

(Reload Reality Films)

Germany / Ukraine / 6minutes

Black Metal – by Kat Candler

When metal is linked with crime. The West Memphis Three — Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley —...

The lead singer of a black metal band dealing with guilt and sorrow: if an artist's work is used for unintended purposes, is the artist partially responsible?

(Candler Productions)

USA / 8minutes

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

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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The Story of 90 Coins – by Michael Wong

Genre films are always a challenge as much as they are a threat. Especially in such explored topic as love, the combinations...

A genre film about gender roles, and the experience of love through promise, misunderstanding and regret.

(Hiersun Productions)

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Steadfast Stanley – by John Cody Kim

I believe that ugliness and beauty, rather than being two sides of the same coin, are two good neighbours which...

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." And sometimes they save it...

(CalArts)

USA / 4minutes

Online Premiere: The Show MAS Go On

What is MAS? Let’s explain it to non-roman citizens. It is a legendary shop in Rome, nearby Piazza Vittorio, in...

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

(Produzione Illuminati / Think Cattleya / Federica Maria Bianchi (Snaporazverein))

Italian / 30minutes

Torino Short Film Market 2017: Interview with Jacopo Chessa

Torino Short Film Market is back with its second edition. From November 29 to December 1, 2017, in the...

From November 29 to December 1, the one and only short film market in Italy comes back with its second edition: a small talk with its creator

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FOCUS ON: Mario Furloni

His short documentary Pot Country, co-directed with Kate McLean, was in the official selection of HotDocs, Big Sky and Mill...

Focus on his work, Freeland and the Filmaker360 residency

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We Will Live Again

We Will Live Again is a mesmerising shortdoc following Cryonics Institut’s CEO Ben Best and Andy Zawacki, the caretakers of 99...

Stripped of their blood, filled with antifreeze liquid, and frozen: a looks inside the unusual and extraordinary operations of the Cryonics Institute.

(Brooklyn Underground Films)

USA / 12minutes

Meanwhile

Blending CG 3D and 2D drawn animation techniques, Meanwhile follows four characters traversing a city, each lost in their...

Four characters are lost in their own worlds in an nameless city, but an event will reveal their intimate connection.

(Royal College of Art )

UK / 5minutes

Nigel – by Natasza Cetner

Nigel is the Royal College of Art’s grad short by Polish animator Natasza Cetner. The London-based director isn’t new...

A lonely gannet falls for a concrete bird in this relatable love story

(Royal College of Art - London)

UK / 9minutes

Online Premiere: Dinola

Dinola is a child living in the village of Ushguli, in Georgia. Her father has just died, and the...

In the cold mountains of Georgia, a widow is forced to marry another man and leave her life and child behind.

(20 Steps Production)

Georgia / 14minutes

Cortisonici 2019: What A Hell Of A Festival

Cortisonici 2019 is a hell of a festival. This is how the artistic direction of the event presents its...

On the occasion of the 16th edition (Varese, April 9-13), we propose the best short films of the previous editions

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Calcio Storico (Historic Football)

Blood, dust and broken bones. Every year, between the second and the third week of June, four teams face off...

No rules, only one ball and two narrow slits where to throw it in: it's the "calcio storico fiorentino", forerunner of the modern soccer.

(Narratively)

Spain / 9minutes

Crush

A woman is looking for the perfect armchair, in this short film directed by Rebecca Pugh and Jen West....

The search for the perfect armchair becomes a reflection on love and relationships.

(MinyCine Motion Picture)

USA / 7minutes

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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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