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

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

Traces – by Puru Agarwal

The galaxy of Indian short films is vast, full of hideous works and wonders. Several short films featuring well-known...

Disability is a state of mind, as shown by a Bharatanatyam dancer and the author of her novel

(Samvit Kher)

India / 2minutes

Supermarket – by Gianluca Abbate

“I’d like you to make yourself at home, wipe all thoughts from your mind…”: thus begins Supermarket, the second...

An invitation to make you fall asleep goes with us while a chaotic landscape sets up on the screen...

(Gianluca Abbate)

Italy / 8minutes

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

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 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

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

Bora Bora – by Bogdan Mirică

The title of the first short film directed by Romanian helmer Bogdan Mirică can be misleading. The audience, watching the first...

The absurdity of life in one of the most drought-affected areas in Romania

(MediaPro Pictures)

Romania / 32minutes

Danger Island

A couple of british poachers set sail to explore a string of previously undiscovered islands in search of the...

A couple of british poachers explore undiscovered islands in search of the fabled Moth Owl, in this animated tribute to old b-movies.

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USA / 4minutes

PLUG

David Levy is one of the most important art directors around, and his curriculum includes films like Prometheus and...

The only survivor in a post-apocalyptic world is constantly looking for other forms of human life and answers to her questions.

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USA / 16minutes

Sundance Film Festival 2016: a taste from the short films program.

There has always been this unwritten rule accepted among short filmmakers that, if you publish your short online, you...

Five shorts to watch online from the 72 programmed to play over the next 10 days in Park City.

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Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival Unveils Its 7th Edition

From 15 to 18 March 2017 the spotlight will be on the Auditorium Santa Margherita in Venice for the...

The first film festival in Europe to be entirely conceived, coordinated and managed by students reveals Jury and poster

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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

Whateverest

The beauty of micro-doc is that its formal requirements  (brevity and synthesis) obligates to discard too big and complex topics...

A documentary that moves and entertains on an anonymous anti-hero of the province and his passion for electronic music.

(Bacon )

Norway / 16minutes

Lights Out – by David F. Sandberg

In 2013 the UK based production company Bloody Cuts launched a competition for the best horror short film, with a...

"Per aspera ad astra": from indie to major.

(Ponysmasher)

Sweden / 3minutes

Sunspring – by Oscar Sharp

Science Fiction suggests that man’s attempts to create Artificial Intelligence will probably end badly. Real life proves that we...

A happy medium between technophobia and Skynet: A short film written by algorithm

(Therefore Films)

USA / 9minutes

Elefante

Manuel is a middle-aged man who’s profoundly unhappy with his life. He’s been working for 25 years in the...

A man is very unhappy with his life, but when he will be diagnosed with a rare syndrome, everything will change.

(Escandalo Films)

Spain / 9minutes

ZIMNIK – The Ice Road

Siberia. We are in the district of Evenkiysky, in the Krasnoyarsky region, located in the center of the Russian territory, that...

A trip along the Zimnik, the ice roads that cross the Siberian wilderness during the long winter months.

(dikiy.me)

Lithuania / 16minutes

Does the Italian film system neglect short films and its emerging talents?

In our latest article on the Italian Huffington Post we discussed a rather alarming fact: the very low presence and...

Our interview with Jacopo Chessa, the director of the Italian National Center for Short Films.

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Father – by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso

Argentina, 1983. The dictatorship just passed and the horror, by now invisible, finds a place in the inside, in...

The flow of daily life in the shadow of dictatorship

(OpusBou)

France, Argentina / 12minutes

Dr. Easy

Dr. Easy  was adapted from the first chapter of Red Men, a dystopian novel by Matthew De Abaitua. The...

A robot with medical training is sent to negotiate a dangerous situation.

(Warp Films)

UK / 9minutes

Crowfunding: “Lindiota” – by Chiara Livia Arrigo

Chiara Livia Arrigo is a young Milanese director of Sicilian origin, who lives and works in Rome. She launched...

Life and memory of a lonly anti-hero from Lindos, between rotoscope and live footage.

(Ring Film (promo) )

Italian / 2minutes

La Huida – The Runaway

Helvetica , pastel colors , a voice-over that directly addresses the viewers,  eccentric characters and catchy music … at...

The colorful deconstruction of a moment in the life of a group of bizarre characters.

(Escandalo Films )

Spain / 11minutes