The Mistery of Flying Kicks

We saw them on the street, in the most diverse cities in the world, in movies, music videos, maybe...

A brilliant "collabortaivo short-doc" about the urban mystery of sneakers hanging from overhead power lines.

(Closer Productions )

Australia / 14minutes

Inamorata – by A-lan Holt

Inamorata is the first short film written and directed by playwright, filmmaker and Stanford University educator A-lan Holt. She...

A painful (and autobiographical) love story of magic and sisterhood

(TRUE MVMNT)

USA / 21minutes

Robbie

The use of found footage is quite common in contemporary cinema. A recurring device in horror and science fiction,...

The incredible story of a robot, made using only NASA's archival footage.

(Self-produced)

Australia / 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

The Chair of Life – by Carlos Valle

What holds two sisters-in-law together over a lifetime? Carmen and María are two old ladies who support each other...

The short film awarded with the First Prize at Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival 2016: a touching reflection about old age

(Auntie Films)

Spain / 10minutes

Social Butterfly

It’s Chloè’s eighteenth birthday, and she’s celebrating it in a wonderful french countryside villa. It’s a “white party” (maybe...

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

(Ad Astra Films)

USA / 14minutes

Box Room – by Michael Lathrop

Jerry lives with his young mother, who is too busy enjoing her life rather than going after an introvert...

Thanks God, there is Mom!

(Lester Money Productions)

USA / Ireland / 15minutes

Limbus – by Michael Philipp

1918, the First World War is over, two soldiers can finally make their way home. They survived, but their...

In war, beside life, you lose first of all yourself

(Luxs)

Switzerland / 25minutes

Belly Flop – by Jeremy Collins and Kelly Dillon

Belly Flop is a short film inspired by perseverance. Directed by Jeremy Collins and Kelly Dillon, this is the funny...

Good things come to those who wait in the South-African short film challenging the US dominion in animated cinema

(Triggerfish Animation)

South Africa / 5minutes

Gaiwan – by Elia Mouatamid

A grave yard. Two men. Gaiwan is the traditional Chinese teaware. That’s what one of the two uses for...

A grave yard, two men: a parable on hope and death, which equates men beyond preconceptions

(Luna Film)

Italy / 4minutes

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

Online Preview: The Snake

/// The Online Preview has ended, but you can still watch the trailer and read the review /// How...

A night chase where "nothing is as it seems", in this award-winning Italian thriller.

(Briciola TV)

Italy / 15minutes

The Moment – by Karis Oh

“The moment” is what makes us look up and stop the thoughts, it is time to insight. These few words...

What really matters in the end of life?

(Self Produced)

USA / 3minutes

Snow White Cologne – by Amanda Eliasson

Snow White Cologne is the story of an addiction. Swedish animation director Amanda Eliasson, currently based in London, opens...

The story of an addiction in form of acrylic paint on paper and experimental cut-up technique inspired by William S. Burroughs

(Royal College of Art)

Sweden / 6minutes

Record/Play

A man cries while listening an old tape, we hear the voice of a woman talking about how she...

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

(Collaboration Factory)

USA / 11minutes

The Arab Series #2: The Curse

> Click on the image to watch the film Fatine is a young Moroccan girl, she’s all pride and...

Fatine has ventured far from the village to meet her older lover. When she is caught by a group of children, all she wants to do is go home.

(Quark Films, Kasbah Films )

Morocco / 16minutes

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

In our latest article on the Italian Huffington Post we discussed a rather alarming fact: the very low presence and...

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

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Where We Are

This beautiful, delicate and poignant short could be some kind of  “long-distance relationships’ manifesto”, a pretty common way of...

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

(Self-produced)

USA / 1minutes

The Sand Storm

There are many interesting facts about The Sand Storm. First of all, the protagonist is Ai Weiwei, one of...

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.

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China / USA / 10minutes

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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L’Ondee

A sudden rain surprises the city: umbrellas are opened, the traffic intensifies, people seek shelter when they can. A...

A small elegy of rain that nods to the history of cinema

(Folimage)

France / 8minutes

Sebastian – by Sam Fragoso

Sebastian is the first short film written and directed by Sam Fragoso, formerly a film critic and actually the...

An emigrating father writes home to his son: a short film that tells in 3 minutes what is America today

(Sam Fragoso)

USA / 3minutes

Sniffer

In a not so distant future, not much has changed… except for the force of gravity. For some reason,...

In a not so distant future, the absence of gravity complicates the everyday life, but for true dreamers it could also be a way to escape it all.

(Dream Factory)

Norway / 10minutes

Henna Night

It’s the night before Amina’s wedding, and the women of the family are celebrating the henna ceremony, a Muslim...

Love and death, tradition and diversity clash against each other in this intense short by Sally El Hosaini.

(Yalla Film Company)

UK / 12minutes