Sundance Film Festival 2016: a taste from the short films program.

There has always been this unwritten rule accepted among short filmmakers that, if you publish your short online, you...

Five shorts to watch online from the 72 programmed to play over the next 10 days in Park City.

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The Provider

It’s the 1940s, but we’re in  a dystopian, alternate reality where human survival is threatened. A man seeks refuge...

Black comedy, horror, dystopia and science fiction come together in Brianne Nord-Stewart's short.

(Random Acts Entertainment)

Canada / 8minutes

You won’t regret that tattoo

A tattoo is for life… so what if you regret it? This one of the most frequently asked questions...

There's a lot of talk about tattoos, but this is the first time we see people from an older generation who are proud to sport the ink they wear.

(Michelle Woodward)

Canada / 13minutes

Lost Cubert

Cubert’s life revolves around his monotonous and repetitive work. He repeats the same actions every day, in the cold...

The monotonous and repetitive work of an everyday man suddenly turns into an Escherian nightmare.

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Germany / 6minutes

59th San Francisco Film Festival: 15 days of films

The 59th edition of San Francisco International Film Festival ended on the 5th of May, after two weeks of screenings, 175...

From April 21 to May 5, 175 films from 46 countries at the longest-running film festival in America

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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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Hyper-Reality – by Keiichi Matsuda

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that technology plays an important role in our lives. A couple of weeks...

The Anglo-Japanese director describes a daily world dominated by technology

(Fractal)

UK / 6minutes

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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Sundance 2018: 4 Online Shorts You Can Watch Now

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday Jan. 18. This year, approximately 200 feature-length and short films were...

Let's dispel the myth that "if you post your short online, you are blown for A-list festivals"

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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

Recipe for Gruel

What do you need to make gruel? A pot, water , a little oatmeal and a bible. So says...

Life in a surreal and dystopian world, one meal at a time.

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UK / 10minutes

Runaway – by Emily Buchanan, Susan Yung and Esther Parobek

In the Internet of Things era, loving a refrigerator will not be so weird. Probably it’ll be easy to...

The best time of the year to love your refrigerator

(Paper Planes)

USA / 4minutes

Dark Hallucinations – by Diego Salinas

Dark Hallucinations is an experimental short film directed by Diego Salinas. Intended as an installation by Funken Studio collective,...

An immersive audiovisual installation by Funken Studio, a chronicle of darkness where life loses every possible grip

(Funken Studio)

Chile / USA / 3minutes

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

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

Online Premiere: Jung – by Munseong Yun

When you watch Jung you suddenly have the feeling that you are in a different world, where the time...

Two South Korean warriors, divided between friendship and rivalry.

(Student Film (Seul Istitute of Arts))

South Korea / 7minutes

Limbus – by Michael Philipp

1918, the First World War is over, two soldiers can finally make their way home. They survived, but their...

In war, beside life, you lose first of all yourself

(Luxs)

Switzerland / 25minutes

Envelope

Some feelings are universal. The apprehensive await for a the mailman and the important letter he’s bringing. Evgeniy’s passion since...

An innovative thriller starring Kevin Spacey, set in the Russia's Cold War era.

(Trigger Street Productions)

Russia / 17minutes

Shorts not to miss at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival

The 2015 Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week, and the shorts film program is comprised of 60 films...

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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

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

Transmission – by Varun Raman and Tom Hancock

After a long and extremely successful run in the festival circuit, British dystopian short film Transmission is now available...

Welcome To Britannia. Together We Stand Alone.

(Parallel Madness)

UK / 18minutes

Ghostly International Presents: Andy Gilmore

An introduction and tribute to Andy Gilmore, the artist who became famous for his psychedelic geometric forms. His works...

Psychedelic works for an art-immersed life.

(Self-produced)

USA / 4minutes

Eggplant

Durian is a boy born with a rare defect, his reactions to life situations are opposite to those of...

The tale of a boy whose facial expressions display the opposite of what he’s feeling.

(Student Film (UCLA))

Usa / 7minutes