Why we believe in shorts

The New Yorker has recently published a long article Does the Cinema Need Short Films? by Richard Brody, the magazine’s film critic,...

A recent New Yorker article highlights the renewed interest for the short film art and its importance contemporary's cinema.

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Black Metal – by Kat Candler

When metal is linked with crime. The West Memphis Three — Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley —...

The lead singer of a black metal band dealing with guilt and sorrow: if an artist's work is used for unintended purposes, is the artist partially responsible?

(Candler Productions)

USA / 8minutes

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

Journal Animé – by Donato Sansone

Donato’s sitting at the bar. A typical Parisian café during an ordinary rainy day. He flips through the pages...

The images on the pages of Libération come to life and pass the printed events in the Italian short which collected a César nomination

(Autour de Minuit)

France / 4minutes

Soar – by Alyce Tzue

Soar is the story of a young girl Mara who dreams of one day building airplanes. She builds these...

A young girl must help a tiny boy pilot fly home before it's too late.

(Student Film (Anson Yu))

USA / 7minutes

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

Carmen – by Giuseppe Cardaci

A group of aspiring actresses is waiting for their audition to get the main role for the iconic opera...

What happens when impossible dreams strive to come true?

(Santa Fe University of Art and Design)

Italia / 7minutes

Record/Play

A man cries while listening an old tape, we hear the voice of a woman talking about how she...

War, time travel and a broken walkman are the backdrop to this science-fiction love story

(Collaboration Factory)

USA / 11minutes

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

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

10 Animated Shorts That Made the Oscars 2017 Shortlist

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 semifinalists for this year’s animated short Oscar...

The Academy has announced the 10 semifinalists for this year's animated short Oscar race

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Echo

“The sunken homeland; visiting a strange place, and the certainty that we are not alone. ECHO is about how...

People, animals and buildings create a visual echo in this surreal and atmospheric animation.

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Germany / 5minutes

The Story of 90 Coins – by Michael Wong

Genre films are always a challenge as much as they are a threat. Especially in such explored topic as love, the combinations...

A genre film about gender roles, and the experience of love through promise, misunderstanding and regret.

(Hiersun Productions)

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Distortion – by Grégory Papinutto

Distortion by Grégory Papinutto is a solemn story of an ambitious struggle to survive. The French writer/director has crafted...

A weird, disturbing and terrifying slasher about mind-altering mutations

(Gamines)

France / 14minutes

Bite of the Tail

Four people desperately looking for an answer. Bite of the Tail revolves around the daily difficulties of a wife,...

Four characters struggling to find an elusive truth, and a snake that creeps inside their everyday lives.

(Self produced )

USA / 9minutes

Mute

In a world where people are born without a mouth, everyone is very frustrated and unhappy. The all want...

In a world where people are born without a mouth, a gory accident leads to a discovery that will change their lives forever.

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Netherlands / 4minutes

Alejandro G. Iñárritu Takes On Virtual Reality Short On Refugees

Alejandro G. Iñárritu has decided to take on the challenge of virtual reality and short film. The two-time Oscar-winning...

The two-time Oscar-winning director is working on an experimental project set in the Mexican-US border

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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

Tits – by Alex Winckler

Tits is a delicate comedy dealing with the adolescent insecurity, presenting a situation that would have been simple to waste...

When breasts are not the massive dream for a teenage boy.

(BFI + Electric Ballroom Productions)

UK / 16minutes

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

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

Are You With Me? – by Erica Genereux Smith

After the good result of Night Life (2015), Erica Genereux Smith keeps talking about modern tragedies. In fact, the...

A sweet, ironic and sincere exploration of modern solitude (at a call center)

(Erica Genereux Smith)

USA / 6minutes

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

Sequence – by Carles Torrens

The common saying “the man or woman of your dreams” is mostly referred to an unreachable ideal, which is...

Daydreaming could be so dangerous...

(Fortress Features)

Spain / 20minutes