Short Film Day: beautiful shorts in the shortest day of the year.

On December 21, the shortest day of the year, 22 Italian cities and 17 internationals celebrated the short film...

Thanks to the Italian Short Film Centre the national short film scene stands out at the Short Film Day with a wide and quality selection.

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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

The Landing – by Josh Tanner

It all starts (or ends) in a hospital room, where a mature man stands watching the last glimpe of...

Summer of 1960, a Midwestern farm: Where is the enemy?

(Perception Pictures)

Australia / 18minutes

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

PLUG

David Levy is one of the most important art directors around, and his curriculum includes films like Prometheus and...

The only survivor in a post-apocalyptic world is constantly looking for other forms of human life and answers to her questions.

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USA / 16minutes

Pablo’s Villa

Villa Epecuén is a suggestive town 500 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Back in the 1920s, a tourist...

Pablo Novak lives alone in the submerged Argentine ghost town of Villa Epecuén: this is his fascinating and incredible story

(Urtext Films)

Australia / 7minutes

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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Tiger Boy

Tiger Boy is the sixth short film directed by Gabriele Mainetti, Italian actor, director, composer and producer born in...

From the director of They Call Me Jeeg Robot, the story of Matteo, a nine year old kid whose hero is a wrestler of a Roman suburb called The Tiger.

(Goon Films)

Italy / 20minutes

Past Forward, David O. Russell’s Star-Studded Prada Short Film

Past Forward is the multi-platform short film collaboration between Miuccia Prada and David O. Russell. A “cinema poem,” a surreal,...

The acclaimed director filmed a surreal, futuristic silent "cinema poem" in black & white

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Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2014

A “SPECIAL” WELCOME INDEED. We are at the opening of the 60th edition of the International Short Film Festival...

In its 60th anniversary, Oberhausen sets out to discover a "cinema without film" between experimentation, memory and absence.

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FOCUS ON: Mario Furloni

His short documentary Pot Country, co-directed with Kate McLean, was in the official selection of HotDocs, Big Sky and Mill...

Focus on his work, Freeland and the Filmaker360 residency

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Ouro – by Pierre-Jean Le Moël & Eva Jiahui Gao

Ouro is an animated short film directed by Pierre-Jean Le Moël and Eva Jiahui Gao, who are both in Masters Degree programs at...

A fairytale in action about vengeance, Ouroboros, and the power of women

(ECV Bordeaux)

Francia / 4minutes

Traces – by Puru Agarwal

The galaxy of Indian short films is vast, full of hideous works and wonders. Several short films featuring well-known...

Disability is a state of mind, as shown by a Bharatanatyam dancer and the author of her novel

(Samvit Kher)

India / 2minutes

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

In Dreams

To make his graduate film from Northumbria University, British animator Samuel Blain decided to direct a documentary about ordinary...

An experimental documentary about people's dreams, that feels like a modern take on surrealism.

(Student film)

UK / 3minutes

Online Premiere: Arianna

Arianna is the title of the promo-short realised by Roman director Carlo Lavagna ​​to promote the crowdfunding campaign on...

How to turn a simple crowfunding promo into a short masterpiece.

(Ring Film (promo) )

Italy / 4minutes

Online Preview: La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak / Butter Lamp

The online preview is ended. You can still watch the trailer and read the review! Starting from a very...

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

(Ama Productions)

France / China / 16minutes

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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Fear of Flying

It looks like Stop-Motion, but it isn’t.  Combining puppetry and 2D and 3D animation, director Conor Finnegan has created...

It's time to migrate south, but Dougal is afraid of flying. The tragicomic adventure of a bird and its phobias.

(Brunella Cocchiglia)

Ireland / 9minutes

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

La Boca Del Léon

La Boca Del Léon is a story directed by Alfonso García López and written by Vincent Blonde, inspired by the...

A man obsessed with the world of dead messes up with the dark arts and make one last call for help.

(Geo Films)

Spain / 5minutes

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

Solus – by R. Bersot, C. Dellerie, M. Larue, T. Rodriguez

Solus is the French animated short film created, in computer graphics, by Robin Bersot, Camille Dellerie, Mickaël Larue and Thomas...

Everyone defends himself from reality: a story about loneliness and survival in CGI

(ESMA)

France / 7minutes

The Life & Death of an iPhone

Needless to deny: most of us live attached to the phone. A form of technological autism entirely contemporary, that even...

Life, death, and reincarnation of an iPhone from its point-of-view. An original perspective on our relatoinship with technology.

(Project Fathom)

USA / 7minutes