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Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother

Tom Hardy stars as Sergeant Dan in this short film that marks the directorial debut of photographer Greg Williams....

Tom Hardy plays a temperamental aspiring soldier in a story of brotherly love and strife.

(HenPeg & Loki Productions)

USA / 13minutes

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

FOCUS ON: Jack Dunphy

Jack Dunphy mixes love and humour, cutout paper characters and death. Serenity is a profound story made of simple elements. Serenity was...

Love, death and icecream for breakfast: small talk with the Brooklyn-based filmmaker

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Belly

Ever shifting between tender and darker tones, this little coming-of-age tale draws us into a surreal fantasy world that’s...

A coming of age tale about brotherhood, friendship and separation.

(Royal College of Art )

UK / 8minutes

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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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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Head over Heels

After many years of marriage, Walter and Madge have grown distant from each other, to the point that  they...

This Oscar-nominated animation is an heartwarming tale of a married couple whose lives have grown in opposite directions.

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UK / 10minutes

Player Two – by John Wikstrom

As so often in similar situations, all begins with a little and innocent question: can video games be a...

Can video games be a spiritual experience? The game will never be over

(Self Produced)

USA / 2minutes

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

Dan Invited Hanna Over for Dinner

Hanna’s day life is abruptly shaken by an unexpected dinner invitation from her boyfriend. “Dan does not know how...

An unexpected dinner invitation disrupts Hanna's life. Idiosyncrasies and anxieties in the life of a modern young couple.

(Cynical People)

Canada / 10minutes

Lights Out – by David F. Sandberg

In 2013 the UK based production company Bloody Cuts launched a competition for the best horror short film, with a...

"Per aspera ad astra": from indie to major.

(Ponysmasher)

Sweden / 3minutes

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

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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Fugu & Tako

Recently we wrote a short guide on how to gain success on the web with a short film for...

The friendship between two Japanese white collar men changes as one of them turns into a puffer fish inside a sushi bar.

(Produced by Wendy Green)

USA / 8minutes

Taxi Cab Teranga

A day in new york. A man gets up and goes to work. A girl, perhaps n the other...

A day in the life of Omar, a Senegalese taxi driver in New York City, who learns that any day could be his last.

(Self-produced)

USA / 11minutes

Father – by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso

Argentina, 1983. The dictatorship just passed and the horror, by now invisible, finds a place in the inside, in...

The flow of daily life in the shadow of dictatorship

(OpusBou)

France, Argentina / 12minutes

Edmond – by Nina Gantz

On a lake shore, a man is dragging a big rock tied with a rope. He’s sitting down on...

A stop motion bitter sweet black poetry

(Emilie Jouffroy)

UK / 9minutes

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

Coach Nison – by Charlie Hoxie

Coach Nison by Charlie Hoxie is part of Frameworks, a series of in-depth documentary shorts examining extraordinary New York...

A table tennis champion from Tajikistan opens a club in Brooklyn where he trains the next generation of talent

(BRIC TV)

USA / 14minutes

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

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

The Short Films of Agnès Varda

Probably one of the most remarkable traits of Agnès Varda’s filmography is that she never cared too much for...

An overview of some of the French New Wave filmmaker's most remarkable short films

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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