Googly Eyes – by Simon Savelyev

Gary, a recently dumped Los Angeles slacker, is nursing a mysterious and chronic earache stirring up memories of his...

A short and cynical rom-com to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the best way

(KQED Film School Shorts)

USA / 13minutes

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

7:35 in the Morning

What is the most romantic thing you have ever done for somebody? Well, your answer probably’s not a 10th...

One morning a woman enters a restaurant – only to be met with silence instead of people talking...

(Ibarretxe & Co.)

Spain / 8minutes

Duku Spacemarines

La Mécanique du Plastique  is a French creative collective founded in 2011. Thanks to the combination of the very...

An incredible adventure of underground fights, angry hackers and alien invasions.

(La Mécanique du Plastique )

France / 4minutes

Marilyn Myller

In the beginning it was nothing. And then everything appeared. Explosions of light and matter, forms that combine and...

A witty satire on the art world and the anxieties of the creative process masterfully directed by stop-motion animation genius Mikey Please.

(Blink Industries)

UK / 7minutes

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

Jinxy Jenkins, Lucky Lou – by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon

He’s a nerd, she’s an optimist. He’s sad, she’s cheerful. He collects misadventures, she lives adventure. They don’t know each...

The attraction of opposites... hurtling down the hills of San Francisco

(Ringling College of Art and Design)

USA / 4minutes

Yardbird

Lonely and mysterious, Ruby is very different from other girls her age: we don’t know much about her, besides...

A solitary young girl is forced to come out of hiding to face the town bullies, but the thing she fears the most is herself.

(Bridle Path Films )

Australia / 13minutes

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

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

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

Online Preview: Newton’s First Law

“When viewed in an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant...

Physics applied to life and a last chance to take, because it is never too late to find love.

(CSC)

Italy / 20minutes

You won’t regret that tattoo

A tattoo is for life… so what if you regret it? This one of the most frequently asked questions...

There's a lot of talk about tattoos, but this is the first time we see people from an older generation who are proud to sport the ink they wear.

(Michelle Woodward)

Canada / 13minutes

Citizen versus Kane

An independent filmmaker’s ambitious project of  remaking Citizen Kane in a modern-day setting has finally took off. As it...

When death arrives on the set of a low-budget "Citizen Kane" remake, what's there to do to save the production?

(Premiere Heure)

France / 18minutes

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

How to Act on Reality TV – by John Wilson

The story of How to Act on Reality TV, short doc by filmmaker John Wilson, has started when a...

The meta-movie that opens us the doors of the New York Reality TV School: not acting but real

(John's Movies)

USA / 23minutes

Slow

Body, desire and violence. This shortfilm by Darius Clark Monroe shows an intricate relationship with unexpected twists. The two...

An online-dating hook up takes an unexpected turn cause of the men's different expectations.

(Self-produced)

USA / 13minutes

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

The Board – by David Shane

Evan is a socially awkward teenager, who constantly finds himself at a loss for appropriately cool words during his...

Practical tips from a teenager busy with the opposite sex

(B-Negative )

USA / 13minutes

59th San Francisco Film Festival: 15 days of films

The 59th edition of San Francisco International Film Festival ended on the 5th of May, after two weeks of screenings, 175...

From April 21 to May 5, 175 films from 46 countries at the longest-running film festival in America

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Ududeagu

Before there were kings, there was a spider – life and death intertwine in Ududeagu, the intimate and mystery...

Before there were kings, there was a spider: language and body as habitat in a dark and mystery mutant experiment

(Akwaeke Emezi)

Nigeria / 2minutes

Why we believe in shorts

The New Yorker has recently published a long article Does the Cinema Need Short Films? by Richard Brody, the magazine’s film critic,...

A recent New Yorker article highlights the renewed interest for the short film art and its importance contemporary's cinema.

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Uncanny Valley

A new short film from Federico Heller explores a well travelled dystopian sci-fi narrative territory—addiction to future technologies, war and...

In the slums of the future, virtual reality junkies satisfy their violent impulses in online entertainment.

(3dar)

Argentina / 9minutes

Berliner

“Friendliness”: this is the word that, according to young Turkish director Elif Kalkan, best describes Berlin. And it is...

An ode with elegiac tones that celebrates the German capital through the faces of its inhabitants and the intimacy of their homes.

(Bahçeşehir Üniversites )

Turkey / 2minutes