Malatesta Short Film Festival Unveils Its First Edition Line-Up

Three days of screenings, premieres and Q&As with directors dedicated to short films: the first edition of Malatesta Short...

Find out these 10 shorts you can watch online from the MalatestaShort official selection

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Code 8 – by Jeff Chan

In the last few years short film has been act as a springboard for a lot of young directors,...

Reality and fiction are melting in Code 8, your next sci-fi cult.

(Colony Pictures)

USA / 10minutes

Redesigning Christmas

Architects love Christmas. There’s a very simple reason for that: it is’s such a poorly designed holiday, and each...

What's Christmas like when your parents are both modernism-loving architects?

(National Film Board of Canada )

Canada / 2minutes

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

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

Dan Invited Hanna Over for Dinner

Hanna’s day life is abruptly shaken by an unexpected dinner invitation from her boyfriend. “Dan does not know how...

An unexpected dinner invitation disrupts Hanna's life. Idiosyncrasies and anxieties in the life of a modern young couple.

(Cynical People)

Canada / 10minutes

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

Lazy Daze – by Brian Smee

How is like a dog’s dream? Maybe something similar to what is depicted by the young American animator Brian Smee in...

A kaleidoscopic journey into a dog's dream.

(Self Produced)

USA / 4minutes

FOCUS ON: Fisnik Maxhuni

Fisnik Maxhuni won with his first short film Lost Exile the ‘Cinema & Gioventù’ Jury Prize at Locarno Film...

Interview with the director of Lost Exile, awarded at Locarno Film Festival

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92 Dreamin

The current overhyped 90s nostalgia is often forced and deeply naive, but there are some fortunate cases in which...

Brooklyn, 1992. A lonely skater gets thrown in a dreamy virtual world, where everything is possible

(SVA - New York (Student Film))

USA / 4minutes

Sunday – by Patrick Doyon

It’s a cold Sunday in wintertime. Sunday immediately brings us back to our childhood and, for a moment, we really...

An animation that brings the unexpected in an ordinary family lunch

(National Film Board of Canada)

Canada / 10minutes

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

Offline Dating

Are we still able to approach a person without the use of internet? This is the question British director Samuel...

A 'single' guy challenges himself to find a his next date without the help of the internet.

(Joshua Smith & Samuel Abrahams )

UK / 6minutes

Anteprima Trailer: Merry Go Round

We are glad to present the trailer preview of Merry Go Round, a short film written and directed by actor-director Massimiliano...

Following shocking discoveries about the double life of his father, a guy has to decide who he really wants to be.

(Kino Produzioni)

Italy / 18minutes

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

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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Sea Change

Written by proven duo Drew Grubich and Nickolas Duarte, fresh authors of the award-winning Fish Hook, Sea Change is a...

Two sisters travel up to Pacific Coast to seek an alternative treatment for the younger sister's misterious disease.

(Crown Chimp Productions)

USA / 17minutes

The Story of Ones

The story of one could be an experience for all. Telling these stories is the mission of Pham Ngoc...

Like entering a roomful of stories, the sound of the Vietnamese state radio introduces us into the city life of Hanoi.

(Hanoi DOCLAB)

Vietnam / 9minutes

Clermont-Ferrand 2017 Kicks Off: A Selection Of 6 Short Films Online Via Click For Flicks

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival is the largest and most influential short film festival in the world. For its...

The 39th edition opens with Click for Flicks, a selection of 6 short films to watch online for free

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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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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

Dylan

Dylan is an experimental documentary-film written and directed by New York director Elisabetta Rohrbaugh based on an interview with Dylan...

A young transgender tells us his story on his early morning journey to Conney Island.

(Outer Borough Pictures)

USA / 8minutes

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

The Last Ice Merchant (El Último Hielero)

Mount Chimborazo is Ecuador’s highest peak. as well as the point on the Earth that’s closest to the sun....

The life of Ecuador's last ice merchant tells a story of change and traditions.

(Jeremy Yaches, Rodrigo Donoso.)

Ecuador / 14minutes