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

(Briciola TV)

Italy / 15minutes

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

The Short Films of Agnès Varda

Probably one of the most remarkable traits of Agnès Varda’s filmography is that she never cared too much for...

An overview of some of the French New Wave filmmaker's most remarkable short films

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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

Meanwhile

Blending CG 3D and 2D drawn animation techniques, Meanwhile follows four characters traversing a city, each lost in their...

Four characters are lost in their own worlds in an nameless city, but an event will reveal their intimate connection.

(Royal College of Art )

UK / 5minutes

James

Presented at Sundance, and awarded in many international festivals, James is kind of a fragment of a coming-of-age tale,...

The lonely coming of age of a Northern Ireland's boy on his path towards self-discovery.

(Student Film)

Northern Ireland / 18minutes

Malatesta Short Film Festival Unveils Its First Edition Line-Up

Three days of screenings, premieres and Q&As with directors dedicated to short films: the first edition of Malatesta Short...

Find out these 10 shorts you can watch online from the MalatestaShort official selection

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Wind

A distant land where the entire social system is based on the power of the wind. Strong and relentless,...

The everyday activities of the inhabitants of an extremely windy area are hard. But what if the wind stopped blowing?

(HAW Hamburg Department Design)

Germany / 4minutes

Fighting the Ebola Outbreak, Street by Street.

An ambulance with blaring sirens runs through the crowded streets of Monrovia, capital of Liberia, one of regions mostly...

The New York Times' shortdoc on Ebola's outbreak in Liberia, redefines the boundaries between news and narrative.

(New York Times)

USA / 7minutes

Bear – by Pascal Floerks

It’s really hard to say, perhaps Bear (Bär) is a documentary, perhaps a short animation. Certainly it’s the final...

A mysterious and personal story about the director's grandfather

(Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)

Germany / 8minutes

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

Uncanny Valley

A new short film from Federico Heller explores a well travelled dystopian sci-fi narrative territory—addiction to future technologies, war and...

In the slums of the future, virtual reality junkies satisfy their violent impulses in online entertainment.

(3dar)

Argentina / 9minutes

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

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

Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Waste (Yaderni wydhody) is the striking fourth short film by Ukrainian director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, following Incident (2006), Diagnosis (2009) and Deafness (2010) which represent some kind...

He is a truck-driver at a radioactive wastes utilization plant. She works at the plant's decontamination laundry.

(Arthouse Traffic, Volodymyr Tykhyy)

Ukraine / 23minutes

Why we believe in shorts

The New Yorker has recently published a long article Does the Cinema Need Short Films? by Richard Brody, the magazine’s film critic,...

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

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FOCUS ON: Mario Furloni

His short documentary Pot Country, co-directed with Kate McLean, was in the official selection of HotDocs, Big Sky and Mill...

Focus on his work, Freeland and the Filmaker360 residency

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The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey Danger

The Viewfinder List is an entertainment industry survey which polls studio executives, producers and creatives for their top 10...

The adventurous love story of a young couple escaping dinosaurs through spaceships and submarines.

(Student film (NYU))

USA / 9minutes

59th San Francisco Film Festival: 15 days of films

The 59th edition of San Francisco International Film Festival ended on the 5th of May, after two weeks of screenings, 175...

From April 21 to May 5, 175 films from 46 countries at the longest-running film festival in America

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Sorry We Don’t Help Darkies

A Caribbean family is under attack during the London race riots. We’re in England, in 1958, and racial hatred...

A tragic episode of racism in 50s London.

(TBone Productions)

UK / 10minutes

Supermarket – by Gianluca Abbate

“I’d like you to make yourself at home, wipe all thoughts from your mind…”: thus begins Supermarket, the second...

An invitation to make you fall asleep goes with us while a chaotic landscape sets up on the screen...

(Gianluca Abbate)

Italy / 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

97% – by Ben Brand

97% is a short written and directed by the young Dutch director Ben Brand, that explores our emotional dependency on...

Bert's race against time to find the match of his life among the subway cars.

(Caviar)

Netherlands / 8minutes

Steadfast Stanley – by John Cody Kim

I believe that ugliness and beauty, rather than being two sides of the same coin, are two good neighbours which...

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." And sometimes they save it...

(CalArts)

USA / 4minutes