Memory by Design

This refined exercise in style will help us reflect on our obsession of recording and capturing moments of our...

An innovative exercise in style about the preservation of memories.

(The incomplete recordings )

USA / 5minutes

Diary

Diary is a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made...

10 years of war reporting around the world in this moving and very powerful video-testament by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington.

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UK / 19minutes

The Story of Ones

The story of one could be an experience for all. Telling these stories is the mission of Pham Ngoc...

Like entering a roomful of stories, the sound of the Vietnamese state radio introduces us into the city life of Hanoi.

(Hanoi DOCLAB)

Vietnam / 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

Similo

2065. The entire planet is facing the climate change aftermath. One of the few habitable places left is Antarctica,...

A sci-fi romance set in a dystopian future questions about artificial love and the future of humanity. (NSFW)

(Blackmeal)

Spain / 22minutes

Carmen – by Giuseppe Cardaci

A group of aspiring actresses is waiting for their audition to get the main role for the iconic opera...

What happens when impossible dreams strive to come true?

(Santa Fe University of Art and Design)

Italia / 7minutes

Papa – by Natalie Labarre

Papa is a short animated story about an eccentric and overzealous father who realizes he’s not a perfect daddy. He thinks that...

The diary of an imperfect father who tries hard to be a perfect dad.

(Cargo Collective)

USA / 6minutes

Killing Klaus Kinski – by Spiros Stathoulopoulos

Killing Klaus Kinski by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Greek-Colombian director best known for the uncut cult film PVC-1 (2007) and Meteora...

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

(Candelaria Films)

Colombia / Greece / 20minutes

Pyskessa

Pyskessa is a lonely and silent girl. She lives with her troubled dad, who doesn’t seem to be coping...

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

(Eicar Paris)

France / 10minutes

In Dreams

To make his graduate film from Northumbria University, British animator Samuel Blain decided to direct a documentary about ordinary...

An experimental documentary about people's dreams, that feels like a modern take on surrealism.

(Student film)

UK / 3minutes

When Namibia Was a City…

Yusuf’s everyday life is dominated by a gorgeous and beloved routine. He wakes up in the morning and drinks...

Yusuf's everyday life is dominated by a gorgeous and beloved routine. A fishing trip could give him a chance to restore his image as the provider and head of family...

(24 Lies Per Second)

Germany / 23minutes

I’m a Mitzvah

“Mitzvah” is an Hebrew term that means “commandment.” In its secondary meaning, however,  it also refers to all those charitable...

The bittersweet adventure of a young American man who spends one last night with his deceased friend while stranded in rural Mexico.

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USA / 18minutes

Growing Girl – by Marnie Ellen Hertzler

Growing Girl is a short film by Marnie Ellen Hertzler, American video-artist and filmmaker based in Baltimore. The short,...

A Powerpoint presentation about snakes is intertwined with a woman’s memories of abuse in the workplace

(The Borscht Corp.)

USA / 11minutes

Let it rain

Shady characters , a dramatic tone, lots of suspense … the first scenes of Let it Rain set up...

A deadly shootout... with water weapons.

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Australia / 8minutes

Memories of Papé, the short film by Nicolas Polixene

Memories of Papé Diary of my short film. The beginning My name is Nicolas Polixene and I’m 33 years old. Native...

The private diary by French director of Martinique descent

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10 Doc Shorts That Made the Oscars 2017 Shortlist

Ranging from the Syrian refugee crisis to the shooting of Walter Scott, the 10 doc shorts that made the...

Ranging from the Syrian refugee crisis to the shooting of Walter Scott, the Academy shortlist

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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

Borrowed Time – by Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj

Animated short film and drama. We are not used to associate this genre to poignant and dark tales, but watching Borrowed...

American animation comes out of its comfort zone and tells the drama

(Quorum Films)

USA / 7minutes

Shorts not to miss at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival

The 2015 Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week, and the shorts film program is comprised of 60 films...

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FOCUS ON: Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings, writer of Thunder Road and director of Thunder Road, is also the main actor in  Thunder Road. His short film, Thunder...

Interview with the director of Thunder Road, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival

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Guiding Sights

Rafael Egaña, 38, is going blind. He suffers RP (Retinitis Pigmentosa), a genetic degenerative retinal disease. With the iquiqueña...

Rafael Egaña is going blind and goes through the pics that his father has collected over the past 50 years. What happens with the images in your memory when you're going blind?

(Cusicanqui Films, Escuela de Cine y Televisión - Universidad de Chile)

Chile / 18minutes

Cut Off

A mysterious briefcase, a gun, handcuffs. A sudden phone call. We see a man, presumably a spy or a...

When fiction starts to blend with reality, a novelist must act quickly - his life may depend on it!

(Intellectual Propaganda)

USA / 8minutes

The Italian short film (potential) industry.

Is there an Italian “short film industry”? Is there an economy linked to short film sector at all? These are...

The "Report 2014" of the Italian Short Film Centre sheds a light on an key-sector of the audiovisual that struggles to define itself "industrial".

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Fear of Flying

It looks like Stop-Motion, but it isn’t.  Combining puppetry and 2D and 3D animation, director Conor Finnegan has created...

It's time to migrate south, but Dougal is afraid of flying. The tragicomic adventure of a bird and its phobias.

(Brunella Cocchiglia)

Ireland / 9minutes