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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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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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International Film Festival – Clermont Ferrand 2015

The historic French festival started. Here are the trailer of the Italian shorts, and a major crowdfunding campaign promoted by the CNC to support our national production in the world .

Pyskessa

A surreal adventure in the life of a little girl with a wild imagination.

The Landing – by Josh Tanner

Summer of 1960, a Midwestern farm: Where is the enemy?

The 10 Best Short Films of 2017 (Available Online)

From China to Lebanon, here are the best of the best (strictly available online!) from an incredible, unpredictable year for shorts

The Moment – by Karis Oh

What really matters in the end of life?

FOCUS ON: William Laboury

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

Coach Nison – by Charlie Hoxie

A table tennis champion from Tajikistan opens a club in Brooklyn where he trains the next generation of talent

The Pub

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

Person to Person

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

The Shift

1964. Joe's seemingly ordinary day takes a bad turn, as he comes home to find out that his wife hasn't been cooking dinner. And there's a very good reason for that.

Interesting Ball

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

Ududeagu

Before there were kings, there was a spider: language and body as habitat in a dark and mystery mutant experiment

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2014

In its 60th anniversary, Oberhausen sets out to discover a "cinema without film" between experimentation, memory and absence.

FOCUS ON: Mario Furloni

Focus on his work, Freeland and the Filmaker360 residency

Sleepwalk

The presage of the end is consumed in front of our eyes, but there is still time for a last love gesture.

A Brief History of John Baldessari

Narrated by Tom Waits, a pop documentary about "The guy who put dots over people's faces".

Killing Klaus Kinski – by Spiros Stathoulopoulos

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

Traces – by Puru Agarwal

Disability is a state of mind, as shown by a Bharatanatyam dancer and the author of her novel

Guilt – by Moisés Aisemberg

"Dulce Doror" director offers us a short film about sexual impulses in adolescence and child abuse

Belly

A coming of age tale about brotherhood, friendship and separation.

Project X – by Laura Poitras and Henrik Moltke

From the director of Citizenfour, narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, a journey into NSA's NYC surveillance hub

Bismillah by Alessandro Grande: Winner of the David di Donatello Award 2018 for Best Short Film

Exclusive interview with the director winner of the most important Italian prize

Prospect

Straight out of this year's SXSW, an enchanting tale of survival in an hostile planet.

It’s No Game – by Oscar Sharp

In this day and age, how useful are screenwriters?