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Singularity

Often action shorts are based on science fiction stories that reflect the current obsession with space and robots, but also...

In the midst of a war between humans and sentient androids, a Delta Force team must rescue the US President.

(The Bicycle Monarchy)

USA / 8minutes

Ghost

The grief process is a recurring theme throughout the history of cinema. Extremely subjective and universal at the same...

The ghost of a little girl wanders through a dark and spooky city as her parents mourn her passing.

(Self Produced)

Denmark / 8minutes

Person to Person

Back in March 2014, New Yorker critic Richard Brody wrote an article about the role of shorts in the...

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

(Arts+Labor)

USA / 18minutes

The Tree – by Cheikh Mohammed Horma

A lumberjack travels in the desert. There’re just sand dunes, ants, dromedary camels and bulldozers around him. A bunch...

An immersive visual experience of Sahara desert, exploring the changing balance between man and nature

(Sahara Lab)

Morocco / 9minutes

Blackstar

Before dying, you’d better become immortal. At the age of 69 David Bowie dies after 18 months of battle...

An epic short for "Blackstar" the eponymous lead single of the music legend's 25th and last studio album.

(Gisla & Renck)

UK / 10minutes

The Artist is Absent: A Short Film on Martin Margiela

The Artist is Absent. The title that Alison Chernick chose for her  portrayal of the most elusive among avant-garde designers...

A portrait of the most elusive and influential of fashion designer, through archival footage and illustrious guests.

(Yoox Group)

USA / 11minutes

Guida – by Rosana Urbes

Guida has dedicated her life working as an archivist, her days, for thirty years, are marked by an unabashed...

Beauty of life is ageless.

(Belisa Proença)

Brazil / 11minutes

The Shift

American suburbs, 1964. An ordinary day in the life of an ordinary man. Joe, our protagonist, comes home from...

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.

(Eppich Films )

USA / 9minutes

Cinematics – by Pier Paolo

A boring evening? Let’s challenge your friends to recognize all the films quoted in Cinematics. The experimental short film directed by...

A funny visual timeline of classic films and characters

(Self Produced)

Brazil / 1minutes

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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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

Online Premiere: Mario de Marcella – Il Solengo

Is it at all possible to live outside the human community? This is the essential question raised by Il Solengo,...

The incredible story of a solitary man living in the Vejano forest in the heart of Italy.

(Ring Film)

Italy / 7minutes

Father – by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso

Argentina, 1983. The dictatorship just passed and the horror, by now invisible, finds a place in the inside, in...

The flow of daily life in the shadow of dictatorship

(OpusBou)

France, Argentina / 12minutes

021 Capalbio Cinema International Shortfilm Fest

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive...

The historic Maremman festival opens its 21th edition with an entirely renewed formula in the name of Re/Generation.

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Sunspring – by Oscar Sharp

Science Fiction suggests that man’s attempts to create Artificial Intelligence will probably end badly. Real life proves that we...

A happy medium between technophobia and Skynet: A short film written by algorithm

(Therefore Films)

USA / 9minutes

Online Preview: La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak / Butter Lamp

The online preview is ended. You can still watch the trailer and read the review! Starting from a very...

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

(Ama Productions)

France / China / 16minutes

Online Premiere: Thriller

With the city of Taranto bent by pollution and uncertainty for the future in the background, Michael, 14, goes around...

Michele dreams to dance in TV like his idol Michael Jackson, but the protest in which his father is involved threatens his dream.

(Basiliciak)

Italian / 14minutes

Sea Change

Written by proven duo Drew Grubich and Nickolas Duarte, fresh authors of the award-winning Fish Hook, Sea Change is a...

Two sisters travel up to Pacific Coast to seek an alternative treatment for the younger sister's misterious disease.

(Crown Chimp Productions)

USA / 17minutes

Quine – by M. Remaury, W. Laboury

As it often occurs, a question stimulates an author to create a work of art in order to answere that...

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

(Self Produced)

France / 2minutes

Room 8

A new prisoner has just arrived in his cell in a macabre Russian jail. He’s attempting to settle in...

A mysterious box turns the life of an inmate into a dead end hallucinatory trip.

(Independent Films)

UK / 6minutes

Dealer

In late December 2013 the elusive British musician William Bevan, aka Burial, published an unannounced EP, The Rival Dealer....

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

(The Sweetshop)

UK / 11minutes

The Most Astounding Fact

In an interview with Time, astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson shares his personal and poetic perspective on the wonders of...

“What’s the most astounding fact you can share with us about the universe?” The astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson answers.

(Self-produced)

USA / 4minutes

Online Premiere: Il Fischietto (The Whistle)

Il Fischietto (The Whistle) is the debut shortfilm by Roman director Lamberto Sanfelice, produced by ANG Film in collaboration with...

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

(ANG Film / Asmara Film)

Italy / 15minutes