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The Robbery – by Jim Cummings

After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 2016 with Thunder Road, Jim Cummings renews his participation to...

After Thunder Road, another dark comedy where a robbery doesn't go so well

(Fullscreen)

USA / 9minutes
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
1500 Words – by Andrew Chaplin

You have 1,500 words left to live. How would you react to that sentence? Hard to imagine how few are 1,500 words,...

What would you do if you went to the doctors and discovered that you only had 1500 words left to live?

(Hungry Bear Media)

UK / 9minutes
A Reasonable Request – by Andrew Laurich

There are many ways to re-build a disrupted father-son relationship: it’s possible to do it for affection or old...

How to re-build a father-son relationship in an unconventional way.

(Christina Lee)

USA / 8minutes
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
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

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The Robbery – by Jim Cummings

After Thunder Road, another dark comedy where a robbery doesn't go so well

Edmond – by Nina Gantz

A stop motion bitter sweet black poetry

1500 Words – by Andrew Chaplin

What would you do if you went to the doctors and discovered that you only had 1500 words left to live?

A Reasonable Request – by Andrew Laurich

How to re-build a father-son relationship in an unconventional way.

Fugu & Tako

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

Recipe for Gruel

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

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Thunder Road – by Jim Cummings

Officer Arnaud loved his mom... The 2016 Sundance short winner

Berlin, Berlin

More than just a city, a category of the mind: the passionate ode to Berlin by Nehemias Colindres.

Runaway

A charming tale about a misunderstanding between a boy named Stanley and Chillie, his treasured 1950's refrigerator.

The People’s Network Showcase: A New Generation of Short Films Directors

The channel created by Robert Rodriguez launches a new User Generated short films series

FOCUS ON: Jack Dunphy

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

Father – by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso

The flow of daily life in the shadow of dictatorship

Soar – by Alyce Tzue

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

Online Premiere: Il Fischietto (The Whistle)

The story of a little girl facing a traumatic event and her personal way of acceptance.

A girl named Elastika

A simple yet very creative stop-motion short about a girl made of rubber bands traveling on a pinboard.

Roadtrip USA

2 weeks, 3,000 miles, 5,000 photos in 3 minutes. A time-lapse journey across the USA.

The Sand Storm

A sci-fi dystopian tale set in Beijing during a water shortage. Starring Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, the short led to some controversies during its development.

Semáforo (Stop Light)

Under a Colombian city stoplight, a formidable circus act becomes a terrifying freak show.

Sofia

The fragility of family relationships through the intimate communication between two young sisters.

Come Swim – by Kristen Stewart

The fallacies of nowadays, namely the short film written and directed by Kristen Stewart, best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga

When Namibia Was a City…

Yusuf's everyday life is dominated by a gorgeous and beloved routine. A fishing trip could give him a chance to restore his image as the provider and head of family...

Nyosha – by Liran Kapel & Yael Dekel

An animated tribute to those who survived the Holocaust and to the memory of its victims

Borrowed Time – by Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj

American animation comes out of its comfort zone and tells the drama

Journal Animé – by Donato Sansone

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

Quine – by M. Remaury, W. Laboury

At the lottery, what's the point of filling the grid when you miss number one ?

Mobile Film Festival 2018: Call For Movies

Bruno Smadja created the festival in 2005 to discover and support talented young directors on a very simple principle: 1 mobile, 1 minute, 1 film

Selfie

An hilarious 60 seconds animated "sketch" on the most viral obsession of the moment.

The Provider

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

Cannes 2016: Luca Tóth

Surreal, evocative, humorous: the 2D animated work of the Hungarian filmmaker

Does the Italian film system neglect short films and its emerging talents?

Our interview with Jacopo Chessa, the director of the Italian National Center for Short Films.