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

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

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

Project X – by Laura Poitras and Henrik Moltke

Not many people know that AT&T has installed NSA surveillance equipment in at least 5 of its Internet and...

From the director of Citizenfour, narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, a journey into NSA's NYC surveillance hub

(Field of Vision, The Intercept)

USA / 10minutes

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

Roadtrip USA

Mike Matas and his girlfriend Sharon Hwang (who also created the opening and closing titles) take us on a...

2 weeks, 3,000 miles, 5,000 photos in 3 minutes. A time-lapse journey across the USA.

(Self-produced)

USA / 3minutes

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

Online Preview: Cargo

The online preview is expired, but you can still read the review and watch the clip. Cargo is the...

A history of exploitation and redemption at the gates of Rome, which subverts the canonical relation victim-perpetrator.

(Kino Produzioni)

Italian / 16minutes

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

Thunder Road – by Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings is probably a man of few words. Or a communication genius. The official synopsis for Thunder Road states:...

Officer Arnaud loved his mom... The 2016 Sundance short winner

(Unison LA)

USA / 13minutes

We Will Live Again

We Will Live Again is a mesmerising shortdoc following Cryonics Institut’s CEO Ben Best and Andy Zawacki, the caretakers of 99...

Stripped of their blood, filled with antifreeze liquid, and frozen: a looks inside the unusual and extraordinary operations of the Cryonics Institute.

(Brooklyn Underground Films)

USA / 12minutes

The Surreal Animations of Jan Švankmajer

When The Guardian asked Terry Gilliam to pick his ten favorite animated films, the director included Dimensions of Dialogue,...

As the Milano Film Festival hosts a retrospective on Jan Švankmajer, we take a look at the career of the great Czech director and animator.

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Deathly – by Mike Williamson

Mike Williamson is a weird and curious guy. He fronts the rock band JR Juggernaut and curates the monthly...

And now, I'll love you to death...

(Blacklight Pictures)

USA / 14minutes

Inamorata – by A-lan Holt

Inamorata is the first short film written and directed by playwright, filmmaker and Stanford University educator A-lan Holt. She...

A painful (and autobiographical) love story of magic and sisterhood

(TRUE MVMNT)

USA / 21minutes

Letters of Italian Partisans Condemned to Death – by Fausto Fornari

Letters of Italian Partisans Condemned to Death is what Ferruccio Parri called “the first anti-fascist documentary.” The short film...

The first anti-fascist documentary in the history of Italian cinema: more necessary than ever today, against any collective removal

(ANCResistenza)

Italy / 12minutes

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

Junkyard

This animation by Dutch animator Hisko Hulsing has won 22 awards in many festivals across the world, and not by chance. It’s...

A man is stabbed in the subway. In the last seconds before he dies, a teenage friendship flashes before his eyes.

(il Luster Films, Cinété)

Netherlands / 18minutes

Otherhalf – by Ben West

Otherhalf is described by the authors as a comedy about a man who decides to “break up” with himself. The...

A literal conflict with themselves, by Framestore

(Framestore)

USA / 10minutes

The 6 Best Iranian Short Films In the Past Years

When talking about Iranian cinema and their films, names like Ashghar Farhadi, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and a lot...

Not only Ashghar Farhadi and Jafar Panahi: a new generation of young directors is making the Iranian cinema so proud

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Pilgrims – by John Doan

What time can do to a man? Joseph Brodsky’s obsession becomes flesh in John Doan’s body. Based on the...

What time can do to a man? Joseph Brodsky's obsession becomes a short film

(Reload Reality Films)

Germany / Ukraine / 6minutes

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

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

Kokosmos – by Anna Radchenko

“Glory to the Soviet People, pioneers of the cosmos!”, as a dazzling propaganda poster put it during the Space...

A hymn to cosmic enthusiasm in socialist societies, coming up online (not for nothing) on Russia's Cosmonautics Day

(KODE Media)

Russia / 2minutes

Meanwhile

Blending CG 3D and 2D drawn animation techniques, Meanwhile follows four characters traversing a city, each lost in their...

Four characters are lost in their own worlds in an nameless city, but an event will reveal their intimate connection.

(Royal College of Art )

UK / 5minutes