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Fucking Bunnies – by Teemu Niukkanen

What would you do if your new neighbor was the leader of a satanic cult, wearing a black metal...

What would you do if your new neighbor was the warm and friendly leader of a satanic cult?

(Komeetta)

Finland / 17minutes
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

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Fucking Bunnies – by Teemu Niukkanen

What would you do if your new neighbor was the warm and friendly leader of a satanic cult?

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.

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Movie Creative Contest – OPEN CALL!

Dompè Group in collaboration with Good Short Films, launches the all Italian competition which tells the research through the eyes of young writers. Prize: €5000

FOCUS ON: William Laboury

Memory as an archive of images in the works of the young French director and graphic designer.

A Reasonable Request – by Andrew Laurich

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

Dylan

A young transgender tells us his story on his early morning journey to Conney Island.

Online Preview: Cargo

A history of exploitation and redemption at the gates of Rome, which subverts the canonical relation victim-perpetrator.

The Arab Series #4: The Wind

The Teir el Akhdar collective tells us Syria and the war through loss, displacement, and forced migration.

Box Room – by Michael Lathrop

Thanks God, there is Mom!

The Six Dollar Fifty Man

A festival favorite, this dramedy shows how hard it is to be a "superhero" in a suburban school in the 70s.

Bum-Bum Doch’ Rybaka (Bum-Bum, The Baby of The Fisher)

A sweet and surreal tale realised by Ivan Maximov, one of the most important Russian animators, winner of the Grand Prix at Tampere Film Festival 2014.

Harry Grows Up

New York is a tough place to find love. Especially for an 18-month-old living on his own.

Kami

A tormented woman living alone in her beach house. A dog, her only companion.

FOCUS ON: Alessandro Capitani

Our interview with the director of "Bellissima", the David di Donatello 2016 winning short film.

Hair Love – by Matthew A. Cherry

The 2020 Oscar-winner animated short, based on the true story of Deandre Arnold and financed by a Kickstarter campaign

World of Glory (Opening Scene)

A plain, ordinary man tells us about his work as a real-estate broker, his dead father, his ordinary home and so on in a naturalistic voice, lacking any emotions.

Fighting the Ebola Outbreak, Street by Street.

The New York Times' shortdoc on Ebola's outbreak in Liberia, redefines the boundaries between news and narrative.

Taxi Cab Teranga

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

Suspend Belief

A meta-filmic rom-com suspended between reality and fiction.

Can You Read My Lips?

What's it like to use one sense to do the work of another?

Dealer

A nocturne crime story inspired by and set to Burial's Rival Dealer.

Runaway

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

The Walrus

The Walrus is feeling depressed. He has everything, but feels something is missing in his life... Are you Walrus?

Memoria del fuego – by Francesco Clerici

From the director of "Hand Gestures," the manufacturing of Cuban cigars in a factory in Estelí, Nicaragua

Kokosmos – by Anna Radchenko

A hymn to cosmic enthusiasm in socialist societies, coming up online (not for nothing) on Russia's Cosmonautics Day

Online Preview: Houses with Small Windows

A powerful and yet muted portrait of an honour killing in the rural Kurdish Southeast of Turkey, "Best Film" at 021 Capalbio Cinema International Short Film Fest.