Online Premiere: Dulce Dolor (The Sweetest Blow)

 Stories are often born from a single visual epiphany, a suspended moment of astonishment where you can catch the sense...

Crossing the ambiguity of happiness and desire, a human Piñata discovers what is her true nature.

(La Gran Royal, Juan Sarquis, Gabriel Stavenhagen)

Mexico / 14minutes

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

Guida – by Rosana Urbes

Guida has dedicated her life working as an archivist, her days, for thirty years, are marked by an unabashed...

Beauty of life is ageless.

(Belisa Proença)

Brazil / 11minutes

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

Room 8

A new prisoner has just arrived in his cell in a macabre Russian jail. He’s attempting to settle in...

A mysterious box turns the life of an inmate into a dead end hallucinatory trip.

(Independent Films)

UK / 6minutes

The Arab Series #4: The Wind

The Wind is the stop-motion animated short directed by Teir el Akhdar collective, comprised of Lina Ghaibeh, May Ghaibeh,...

The Teir el Akhdar collective tells us Syria and the war through loss, displacement, and forced migration.

(Teir el Akhdar)

Syria / 4minutes

Rise – by David Karlak

In a not so far future, robots develop feelings. This unexpected event scares humanity, which reacts as a frightened child...

A justified revolt of the machines.

(Underground Films / Vertigo Entertainment)

USA / 5minutes

Online Premiere: Who’s Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? – by Janez Lapajne

Janez Lapajne is a Slovenian independent filmmaker and former (first) president of the Directors Guild of Slovenia. Born in...

A multicultural triangle in the occupied Europe of 1944: a sensual and emotional Alpine story of two tunes and one whistle

(Triglav Film)

Slovenia / 25minutes

10 Doc Shorts That Made the Oscars 2017 Shortlist

Ranging from the Syrian refugee crisis to the shooting of Walter Scott, the 10 doc shorts that made the...

Ranging from the Syrian refugee crisis to the shooting of Walter Scott, the Academy shortlist

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Mobile Film Festival 2017 Unveils Official Selection: 51 Shorts From 18 Countries

1 mobile, 1 minute, 1 film. Beholden to its missions, Mobile Film Festival has unveiled the official selection for...

1 mobile, 1 minute, 1 film: the French festival is back for its 12th edition

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Sundance 2018: 4 Online Shorts You Can Watch Now

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday Jan. 18. This year, approximately 200 feature-length and short films were...

Let's dispel the myth that "if you post your short online, you are blown for A-list festivals"

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Can You Read My Lips?

Can You Read My Lips? is an immersive short from director David Terry Fine about lip-reading based on the...

What's it like to use one sense to do the work of another?

(Little Moving Pictures)

USA / 5minutes

Third Shift – by Anthony Simon

In the late 70s and early 80s, Los Sures was one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City....

The memories of two workers who spent their lives at Domino Sugar, the soon to be demolished factory on the Brooklyn waterfront

(Union Docs)

USA / 20minutes

Men Buy Sex – by Alice Russell

Men Buy Sex is the first documentary by Alice Russell and she chooses a quite delicate theme. She decided to...

A shortdoc about paid sex that will probaly trigger a very long discussion.

(Fat Rat Films)

UK / 8minutes

International Film Festival – Clermont Ferrand 2015

The importance of the festival and the Italian presence in Clermont-Ferrand. Located at the bottom of a chain of...

The historic French festival started. Here are the trailer of the Italian shorts, and a major crowdfunding campaign promoted by the CNC to support our national production in the world .

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Symphony no. 42 – by Réka Bucsi

The first scene of Symphony no. 42, animated short film by Réka Bucsi, necessarily creates extremely high expectations. What...

A fox in the woods is questioning about the essence of universe and then she shot herself.

(MOME Anim)

Hungary / 9minutes

Recipe for Gruel

What do you need to make gruel? A pot, water , a little oatmeal and a bible. So says...

Life in a surreal and dystopian world, one meal at a time.

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UK / 10minutes

Dark Hallucinations – by Diego Salinas

Dark Hallucinations is an experimental short film directed by Diego Salinas. Intended as an installation by Funken Studio collective,...

An immersive audiovisual installation by Funken Studio, a chronicle of darkness where life loses every possible grip

(Funken Studio)

Chile / USA / 3minutes

Broken Wing

Walking sad and dejected along the dark streets of a city, a boy comes across a junk shop that...

A real life based award-winning animation about friendship, a Rubik's cube, and the art of healing.

(Student Film (Woodsbury University))

Switzerland / 6minutes

“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

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

Online Premiere: Il Fischietto (The Whistle)

Il Fischietto (The Whistle) is the debut shortfilm by Roman director Lamberto Sanfelice, produced by ANG Film in collaboration with...

The story of a little girl facing a traumatic event and her personal way of acceptance.

(ANG Film / Asmara Film)

Italy / 15minutes

Panorama – by Gianluca Abbate

Panorama, world premiered at the International Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand Short Film 2014, is the animated short film directed by Gianluca...

A polis stretches away over an infinite global space with no more uninhabited places nor frontiers

(Self-Produced)

Italy / 7minutes

Snow White Cologne – by Amanda Eliasson

Snow White Cologne is the story of an addiction. Swedish animation director Amanda Eliasson, currently based in London, opens...

The story of an addiction in form of acrylic paint on paper and experimental cut-up technique inspired by William S. Burroughs

(Royal College of Art)

Sweden / 6minutes