Pablo’s Villa

Villa Epecuén is a suggestive town 500 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Back in the 1920s, a tourist...

Pablo Novak lives alone in the submerged Argentine ghost town of Villa Epecuén: this is his fascinating and incredible story

(Urtext Films)

Australia / 7minutes

World of Glory (Opening Scene)

(by Adam Nayman via Reverse Shot)  Note: Roy Andersson’s World of Glory is avaiable online without permission. It is officially avaiable on...

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.

(Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet, Studio 24)

Swden / 14minutes

The Board – by David Shane

Evan is a socially awkward teenager, who constantly finds himself at a loss for appropriately cool words during his...

Practical tips from a teenager busy with the opposite sex

(B-Negative )

USA / 13minutes

Letters of Italian Partisans Condemned to Death – by Fausto Fornari

Letters of Italian Partisans Condemned to Death is what Ferruccio Parri called “the first anti-fascist documentary.” The short film...

The first anti-fascist documentary in the history of Italian cinema: more necessary than ever today, against any collective removal

(ANCResistenza)

Italy / 12minutes

Online Premiere: Riverbero

An armchair, some electrical appliances, a few glimpses of a deserted Turin… Solemn camera movements lead us through different...

A "Border Film" suspended between video art and science that shows us how to capture a sound.

(MyBossWas)

Italy / 15minutes

Eat My Shit

Samantha (Anna Marìa Polverosa) has taken a selfie of her face and posted it on Instagram, but it has...

The moving story of a girl whose butthole is where her mouth should be.

(The Other Side Films)

Spain / 3minutes

Lazy Daze – by Brian Smee

How is like a dog’s dream? Maybe something similar to what is depicted by the young American animator Brian Smee in...

A kaleidoscopic journey into a dog's dream.

(Self Produced)

USA / 4minutes

“My Self”: the intimate diary of Jennifer Medina

Jennifer Medina is a Venezuelan photographer and video maker, based in New York City. Her works sweetly look at...

The selfie generation seen by the young Venezuelan artist's eyes.

(Self produced)

USA / 1minutes

The Apocalypse

Four friends are looking for something to do on a sunny yet boring afternoon in Brooklyn. The news announce...

The Apocalypse has come. The worst thing that could happen to you? Having some ideas. An hilarious horror in which only the dumb survive.

(Greencard Pictures)

USA / 6minutes

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

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

The Boy with a Camera for a Face

The Boy with a Camera for a Face is the multi award winning short film from writer / director...

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

(A Camera Boy Film Ltd Production)

UK / 14minutes

Online Premiere: The Show MAS Go On

What is MAS? Let’s explain it to non-roman citizens. It is a legendary shop in Rome, nearby Piazza Vittorio, in...

Artist Rä di Martino celebrates MAS , the Roman famed "department stores of the people", with a art-doc poised between fiction and reality.

(Produzione Illuminati / Think Cattleya / Federica Maria Bianchi (Snaporazverein))

Italian / 30minutes

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

Online Premiere: Who’s Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? – by Janez Lapajne

Janez Lapajne is a Slovenian independent filmmaker and former (first) president of the Directors Guild of Slovenia. Born in...

A multicultural triangle in the occupied Europe of 1944: a sensual and emotional Alpine story of two tunes and one whistle

(Triglav Film)

Slovenia / 25minutes

Come Swim – by Kristen Stewart

There are a few things that I can’t stand. I’m not talking exclusively about wars, economy, politics and so...

The fallacies of nowadays, namely the short film written and directed by Kristen Stewart, best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga

(Refinery29, Scott Free Productions, Starlight Studios)

USA / 18minutes

Project X – by Laura Poitras and Henrik Moltke

Not many people know that AT&T has installed NSA surveillance equipment in at least 5 of its Internet and...

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

(Field of Vision, The Intercept)

USA / 10minutes

The Arab Series #1: Noor

Ramadan is coming and 13 year-old Fingo has one wish — he wants to hang lights on his apartment...

For the celebration of the upcoming Ramadan, Fingo has one wish: to decorate with colored lights the building he lives in.

(Self-produced)

Egypt / 15minutes

Selfie

From the “mirror stage” of Lacanian memory, to the Renaissance portraits, to analog self-portraits, to serial auto-representation in the...

An hilarious 60 seconds animated "sketch" on the most viral obsession of the moment.

(Free-lance)

UK / 1minutes

Men Buy Sex – by Alice Russell

Men Buy Sex is the first documentary by Alice Russell and she chooses a quite delicate theme. She decided to...

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

(Fat Rat Films)

UK / 8minutes

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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Edmond – by Nina Gantz

On a lake shore, a man is dragging a big rock tied with a rope. He’s sitting down on...

A stop motion bitter sweet black poetry

(Emilie Jouffroy)

UK / 9minutes

Malaria

Western, the quintessential film genre, has been reinterpreted in many ways throughout the history of cinema. Post-modern filmmakers such...

A classic Western story of death and revenge told with an innovative mix of stop motion techniques, in-camera effects and animation.

(Self-produced)

Brazil / 6minutes

Jaffa – by Jay Branagan

Between thirty and forty years, for many people life takes a common turn: marriage, sons, a stable job and...

Many couples want a child, but what happens when a child does not arrive because of his sperm?

(Plain Sailing Films)

Ireland / 12minutes