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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Cut Off

A mysterious briefcase, a gun, handcuffs. A sudden phone call. We see a man, presumably a spy or a...

When fiction starts to blend with reality, a novelist must act quickly - his life may depend on it!

(Intellectual Propaganda)

USA / 8minutes

Online Preview: Where Were You When Michael Jackson Died?

The online preview is ended. You can still watch the trailer and read the review! A brief encounter between...

Paris, a few days after the death of the King of Pop. An encounter in the back of a taxi shakes up the lives of two strangers.

(Les Film Velvet)

France / 11minutes

Jaffa – by Jay Branagan

Between thirty and forty years, for many people life takes a common turn: marriage, sons, a stable job and...

Many couples want a child, but what happens when a child does not arrive because of his sperm?

(Plain Sailing Films)

Ireland / 12minutes

Quine – by M. Remaury, W. Laboury

As it often occurs, a question stimulates an author to create a work of art in order to answere that...

At the lottery, what's the point of filling the grid when you miss number one ?

(Self Produced)

France / 2minutes

Movie Creative Contest: the winner!

Emanuele Milasi (pictured above), 30, from Reggio Calabria, is the winner of our first Movie Creative Contest: an initiative...

"Support the superheroes" is the script winner of the I edition of the contest: a modern tale about the "greatness of being a researcher."

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Kung Fury

Kung Fury is a medium-length film (30 ‘), written and directed by the young Swede...

A cop martial arts expert is sent back in time to defeat Hitler...

(Laser Unicorns)

Sweden / 30minutes

Bianco

A blinding white, a barren nature  that’s pure and precious at the same time. We are in Carrara, Tuscany,...

A solemn and silent Italian shortdoc on the marble quarries of Carrara.

(Student Film)

Italy / 9minutes

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

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

Shorts not to miss at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival

The 2015 Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week, and the shorts film program is comprised of 60 films...

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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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Random Stop

A quiet day in the life of a county police officer. One routine stope, a phone call with his...

A gripping first person POV reenactment of the tragic last moments of the life of a police officer.

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USA / 6minutes

Fighting the Ebola Outbreak, Street by Street.

An ambulance with blaring sirens runs through the crowded streets of Monrovia, capital of Liberia, one of regions mostly...

The New York Times' shortdoc on Ebola's outbreak in Liberia, redefines the boundaries between news and narrative.

(New York Times)

USA / 7minutes

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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Online Premiere: Belva Nera

UPDATES: Matteo Zoppis and Alessio Rigo De Righi are about to debut with their first feature film il Solengo (2015...

The legend of a black panther spotted in the Lazio countryside narrated by the stories of a community of hunters between folklore and reality.

(Coda Rossa)

Italy / 33minutes

Sundance Film Festival 2017 Announces Shorts Programs: Taste These 7 Shorts

Sundance Film Festival has announced its 2017 Shorts Programs. The 68 shorts round out a program of Competition and...

Seven shorts to watch online from the 68 programmed to play over January 19-29 in Park City

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Leonard in Slow Motion

The world is increasingly faster for everyone, but what happens when you live in slow-motion? A bathroom break might take...

Leonard moves in slow motion, but lives in a normally-paced world.

(Lawrence Lewis, Barbara Livolsi)

USA / 9minutes

The Shaman

The Shaman is the science-fiction short film written, directed, edited, and produced by Austrian filmmaker Marco Kalantari. Set in...

In the dark year 2204, Joshua is a Shaman sent on a mission to convert the soul of a giant battle colossus

(Marco Kalantari)

Austria / 17minutes

Guiding Sights

Rafael Egaña, 38, is going blind. He suffers RP (Retinitis Pigmentosa), a genetic degenerative retinal disease. With the iquiqueña...

Rafael Egaña is going blind and goes through the pics that his father has collected over the past 50 years. What happens with the images in your memory when you're going blind?

(Cusicanqui Films, Escuela de Cine y Televisión - Universidad de Chile)

Chile / 18minutes

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 Eagleman Stag

Peter is a famous entomologist who spent all his life reflecting on the way we perceive time. The older...

An innovative and staggeringly beautiful stop motion story about life and the passage of time. Best Animation at BAFTA 2011.

(The Royal College of Art)

UK / 8minutes

The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey Danger

The Viewfinder List is an entertainment industry survey which polls studio executives, producers and creatives for their top 10...

The adventurous love story of a young couple escaping dinosaurs through spaceships and submarines.

(Student film (NYU))

USA / 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