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Thunder Road – by Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings is probably a man of few words. Or a communication genius. The official synopsis for Thunder Road states:...

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

(Unison LA)

USA / 13minutes
Alien Attack from the Interspace – by Alessio Gonnella

Sci-fi in Italy is possible. Thinking about Italian cinematographic difficulties to approach this genre, it seems just an oxymoron....

Sci-fi in Italy is possible, but... How can the trumpet save us all?

(Festina Lente)

Italy / 24minutes
Crush – by Katherine Bernard

Crush, the short film by Katherine Bernard, takes place on two temporal levels: the “before” and the “after,” that...

The short by the American filmmaker cuts satire to reveal a tragicomic criticism of the art world

(Dazed)

USA / 12minutes
Behind the Schoolbag – by Nic Ho Chun Yu

Shaun’s childhood is hell – hunted by other students, ridiculed, excluded, victim of cruel jokes. He’s really exasperated and thinks that the solution...

Against bullying, love yourself: a story about self-salvation

(Intoxic Studio)

Hong Kong / 9minutes
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
Interesting Ball

Exquisitely surreal and brazenly grotesque, this short of dense thirteen minutes unravels five stories connected by a bouncing red ball...

A red ball bounces around the city through five incredible stories, for eventually getting to the beach.

(Daniel Scheinert & Stefanie Lynch)

USA / 13minutes

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Dark Comedy (6)

Thunder Road – by Jim Cummings

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

Alien Attack from the Interspace – by Alessio Gonnella

Sci-fi in Italy is possible, but... How can the trumpet save us all?

Crush – by Katherine Bernard

The short by the American filmmaker cuts satire to reveal a tragicomic criticism of the art world

Behind the Schoolbag – by Nic Ho Chun Yu

Against bullying, love yourself: a story about self-salvation

Solus – by R. Bersot, C. Dellerie, M. Larue, T. Rodriguez

Everyone defends himself from reality: a story about loneliness and survival in CGI

Interesting Ball

A red ball bounces around the city through five incredible stories, for eventually getting to the beach.

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Next Floor

During an opulent and luxurious banquet, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage.

Cinematics – by Pier Paolo

A funny visual timeline of classic films and characters

Code 8 – by Jeff Chan

Reality and fiction are melting in Code 8, your next sci-fi cult.

Holiday Fear – by Nicholas Payne Santos

The last 3 minutes and 50 seconds of a slasher movie: who has the balls to kill Bad Santa?

Modern Life is Rubbish

A recently broken-up couple separating their music collection leads the way for a dissertation on love, loss and the inherent evil of greatest hits albums.

The Pub

The inner nature of a pub's daily clientele comes to life in this rotoscoping animation short.

The Walrus

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

Rise – by David Karlak

A justified revolt of the machines.

Social Butterfly

An american woman enters into a teenage party in the South of France, changing the life of the birthday girl forever.

Record/Play

War, time travel and a broken walkman are the backdrop to this science-fiction love story

FOCUS ON: Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari

Interview with the directors behind "The Silence," the Italian entry in Competition at Cannes 2016

Where We Are

Separation, distance and memory: the essence of love in 85 seconds.

The Saddest Boy in the World

The birthday party of the saddest boy in the world.

Calcio Storico (Historic Football)

No rules, only one ball and two narrow slits where to throw it in: it's the "calcio storico fiorentino", forerunner of the modern soccer.

The Moment – by Karis Oh

What really matters in the end of life?

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

Ennesimo Film Festival 2018, the Italian short film carnival

Welcome to Tile Valley: we went to the Ennesimo Film Festival in Fiorano Modenese and no, this is not "just another" festival report

Cruising

A psychedelic trip inside the mind of a young boy.

Person to Person

A New Yorker's daily life is halted as he finds a stranger girl sleeping on his apartment's floor.

Online Premiere: The Show MAS Go On

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

Anteprima Trailer: Merry Go Round

Following shocking discoveries about the double life of his father, a guy has to decide who he really wants to be.

Like – by Garrett Bradley

A glimpse into the "click-farms" of Bangladesh, where workers are paid to "like" Facebook pages

Thunder Road – by Jim Cummings

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

We Will Live Again

Stripped of their blood, filled with antifreeze liquid, and frozen: a looks inside the unusual and extraordinary operations of the Cryonics Institute.