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Dark Hallucinations – by Diego Salinas

Dark Hallucinations is an experimental short film directed by Diego Salinas. Intended as an installation by Funken Studio collective,...

An immersive audiovisual installation by Funken Studio, a chronicle of darkness where life loses every possible grip

(Funken Studio)

Chile / USA / 3minutes
Googly Eyes – by Simon Savelyev

Gary, a recently dumped Los Angeles slacker, is nursing a mysterious and chronic earache stirring up memories of his...

A short and cynical rom-com to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the best way

(KQED Film School Shorts)

USA / 13minutes
Pilgrims – by John Doan

What time can do to a man? Joseph Brodsky’s obsession becomes flesh in John Doan’s body. Based on the...

What time can do to a man? Joseph Brodsky's obsession becomes a short film

(Reload Reality Films)

Germany / Ukraine / 6minutes
Ududeagu

Before there were kings, there was a spider – life and death intertwine in Ududeagu, the intimate and mystery...

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

(Akwaeke Emezi)

Nigeria / 2minutes
7:35 in the Morning

What is the most romantic thing you have ever done for somebody? Well, your answer probably’s not a 10th...

One morning a woman enters a restaurant – only to be met with silence instead of people talking...

(Ibarretxe & Co.)

Spain / 8minutes
Suspend Belief

An American actor with a questionable french accent, set to play a frenchman in a city that should be...

A meta-filmic rom-com suspended between reality and fiction.

(Self-produced)

UK / 6minutes

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Dark Hallucinations – by Diego Salinas

An immersive audiovisual installation by Funken Studio, a chronicle of darkness where life loses every possible grip

Googly Eyes – by Simon Savelyev

A short and cynical rom-com to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the best way

Pilgrims – by John Doan

What time can do to a man? Joseph Brodsky's obsession becomes a short film

Ududeagu

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

7:35 in the Morning

One morning a woman enters a restaurant – only to be met with silence instead of people talking...

Suspend Belief

A meta-filmic rom-com suspended between reality and fiction.

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The Landing – by Josh Tanner

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

Alto Sauce

A cruel crime happened in the village of Alto Sauce twenty years ago: today the case has been reopened and plays a game of mirrors between past and present.

Fear of Flying

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

Miss Candace Hilligoss’ Flickering Halo

A claustrophobic and dreamlike experimental short in which frames from a 60s horror are manipulated in order to reflect on vision and on our relationship with images.

Online Preview: The Snake

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

Sunspring – by Oscar Sharp

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

Online Preview: Cargo

A history of exploitation and redemption at the gates of Rome, which subverts the canonical relation victim-perpetrator.

Duku Spacemarines

An incredible adventure of underground fights, angry hackers and alien invasions.

Deathly – by Mike Williamson

And now, I'll love you to death...

Why we believe in shorts

A recent New Yorker article highlights the renewed interest for the short film art and its importance contemporary's cinema.

Floor 9.5 – by Toby Meakins

Are we really willing to help those who ask us for help? A Kafkaesque horror about modern working life

Pyskessa

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

Charlie Hebdo, Before the Massacre.

The documentary of the New York Times takes us inside the editor office of Charlie Hebdo. A testament that's also a cause for reflection.

FOCUS ON: Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari

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

Wanderers

A spectacular and scientifically based (pre)vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, commented by Carl Sagan's original voice.

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.

The Sand Storm

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.

Bim Bam Boom, Las Luchas Morenas!

Bim Bam Boom, meet Las Luchas Morenas! Rossy, Esther and Cynthia are three sisters and professional luchadoras: their life through family, ring and… pig heads!

Sorry We Don’t Help Darkies

A tragic episode of racism in 50s London.

Crush – by Katherine Bernard

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

The Boy with a Camera for a Face

A allegorical fairy tale about a boy born with a camera instead of a head, told in rhyme.

Marilyn Myller

A witty satire on the art world and the anxieties of the creative process masterfully directed by stop-motion animation genius Mikey Please.

World of Glory (Opening Scene)

A plain, ordinary man tells us about his work as a real-estate broker, his dead father, his ordinary home and so on in a naturalistic voice, lacking any emotions.

Men Buy Sex – by Alice Russell

A shortdoc about paid sex that will probaly trigger a very long discussion.