Abe

Abe was programmed to love. Until recently, he had a family: he was living with them, cooking, helping them...

What if a robot that was programmed to love stops being loved by those around him?

(Zero-G Productions)

UK / 9minutes

Steadfast Stanley – by John Cody Kim

I believe that ugliness and beauty, rather than being two sides of the same coin, are two good neighbours which...

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." And sometimes they save it...

(CalArts)

USA / 4minutes

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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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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The Boy with a Camera for a Face

The Boy with a Camera for a Face is the multi award winning short film from writer / director...

A allegorical fairy tale about a boy born with a camera instead of a head, told in rhyme.

(A Camera Boy Film Ltd Production)

UK / 14minutes

The Brain Hack – by Joseph White

Neurotheology, technology, science, conspiracy theories, simulation, deception, psychosis, suspense, fear, excitement, mystery, revelation, surprise: rarely a short film manages...

Two students create a short-cut to induce hallucinogenic visions of God, but find themselves hunted by a deadly religious sect.

(Charlotte Walls)

USA / 19minutes

FOCUS ON: Alberto Guerra and Massimiliano Nicolè

The perfect set for this interview would have been a bar with wooden interiors, half-light, three cocktails dripping condensation and even cigars. What...

Interview with the authors of the short web series 'Have you seen Tom Collins?,' winner at the Rome Web Awards

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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

Online Premiere: The Show MAS Go On

What is MAS? Let’s explain it to non-roman citizens. It is a legendary shop in Rome, nearby Piazza Vittorio, in...

Artist Rä di Martino celebrates MAS , the Roman famed "department stores of the people", with a art-doc poised between fiction and reality.

(Produzione Illuminati / Think Cattleya / Federica Maria Bianchi (Snaporazverein))

Italian / 30minutes

The Italian short film (potential) industry.

Is there an Italian “short film industry”? Is there an economy linked to short film sector at all? These are...

The "Report 2014" of the Italian Short Film Centre sheds a light on an key-sector of the audiovisual that struggles to define itself "industrial".

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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

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

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

Sebastian – by Sam Fragoso

Sebastian is the first short film written and directed by Sam Fragoso, formerly a film critic and actually the...

An emigrating father writes home to his son: a short film that tells in 3 minutes what is America today

(Sam Fragoso)

USA / 3minutes

The Mistery of Flying Kicks

We saw them on the street, in the most diverse cities in the world, in movies, music videos, maybe...

A brilliant "collabortaivo short-doc" about the urban mystery of sneakers hanging from overhead power lines.

(Closer Productions )

Australia / 14minutes

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

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

Floor 9.5 – by Toby Meakins

It’s midnight and the young office worker in a big company gets on the elevator to go home. Shift’s...

Are we really willing to help those who ask us for help? A Kafkaesque horror about modern working life

(Fox Digital Studios)

USA / 2minutes

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

Killing Klaus Kinski – by Spiros Stathoulopoulos

Killing Klaus Kinski by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Greek-Colombian director best known for the uncut cult film PVC-1 (2007) and Meteora...

The vertiginous reimagination of a myth of the history of film: the filming of Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog

(Candelaria Films)

Colombia / Greece / 20minutes

Analogue People in a Digital Age

It is the day of the analogue to digital switchover of television transmission. Conversations about life, death and quantum...

As the analogue age draws to a close, eight men sit in an Irish bar and battle to remain relevant in the digital world.

(Twopair Films)

Ireland / 13minutes

Dr. Easy

Dr. Easy  was adapted from the first chapter of Red Men, a dystopian novel by Matthew De Abaitua. The...

A robot with medical training is sent to negotiate a dangerous situation.

(Warp Films)

UK / 9minutes

Leonard in Slow Motion

The world is increasingly faster for everyone, but what happens when you live in slow-motion? A bathroom break might take...

Leonard moves in slow motion, but lives in a normally-paced world.

(Lawrence Lewis, Barbara Livolsi)

USA / 9minutes

Noah

Out in 2013, then removed from the web, now online again, this time permanently, Noah is the debut short film,...

A “screenager romance” with a spymovie-turn between attention disorder e social networking.

(Self-produced)

Canada / 17minutes