Behind the Schoolbag – by Nic Ho Chun Yu

Shaun’s childhood is hell – hunted by other students, ridiculed, excluded, victim of cruel jokes. He’s really exasperated and thinks that the solution...

Against bullying, love yourself: a story about self-salvation

(Intoxic Studio)

Hong Kong / 9minutes

All Men Are Called Robert – by Marc-Henri Boulier

A naked and scared young man runs through the woods, chased by someone. His confused and desperate run is...

An anxiety run through a brutal truth

(Insolence Productions, R! Stone Productions)

Francia / 6minutes

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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International Film Festival – Clermont Ferrand 2015

The importance of the festival and the Italian presence in Clermont-Ferrand. Located at the bottom of a chain of...

The historic French festival started. Here are the trailer of the Italian shorts, and a major crowdfunding campaign promoted by the CNC to support our national production in the world .

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Tits – by Alex Winckler

Tits is a delicate comedy dealing with the adolescent insecurity, presenting a situation that would have been simple to waste...

When breasts are not the massive dream for a teenage boy.

(BFI + Electric Ballroom Productions)

UK / 16minutes

Online Preview: Newton’s First Law

“When viewed in an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant...

Physics applied to life and a last chance to take, because it is never too late to find love.

(CSC)

Italy / 20minutes

Miss Candace Hilligoss’ Flickering Halo

Miss Candace Hillligoss’ flickering halo. The title of this experimental short provides in itself the necessary information to face...

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.

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Italy / 13minutes

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

The Herd

The story starts in a lurid clinic, where women are held in captivity. They are forced to live inside...

Know what you are consuming...

(Eat Your Heart Out Films)

UK / 20minutes

Third Shift – by Anthony Simon

In the late 70s and early 80s, Los Sures was one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City....

The memories of two workers who spent their lives at Domino Sugar, the soon to be demolished factory on the Brooklyn waterfront

(Union Docs)

USA / 20minutes

N U M B – by Anders Weberg

To film an absence may seem an unsolvable oxymoron. Similarly, using a camera just like a tool that is...

Appearance and disappearance: A touching tribute in memory of a son

(Self Produced)

Sweden / 1minutes

Behind

Things to do to make a very good short film – write a brilliant script; shoot without distractions, even...

A regression therapy session diving a girl deeply into her distant memories turns into the materialization of cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth…

(Wanda Productions)

France / 5minutes

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

Blinky™

In a not-so-distant future anyone will be able to have their own personal assistant: the heavily advertised Blinky™. An...

(Image Now Films, Alturas Films, Logolite Entertainment)

Ireland / USA / 13minutes

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

Tiger Boy

Tiger Boy is the sixth short film directed by Gabriele Mainetti, Italian actor, director, composer and producer born in...

From the director of They Call Me Jeeg Robot, the story of Matteo, a nine year old kid whose hero is a wrestler of a Roman suburb called The Tiger.

(Goon Films)

Italy / 20minutes

Amigo

Amigo is the animated short film created by Texan illustrator and director Celestino Marina as his final thesis for...

A delightful short film about friendship in 50s style, seen through the innocent eyes of a child.

(Student Film (CCA))

USA / 3minutes

Room 8

A new prisoner has just arrived in his cell in a macabre Russian jail. He’s attempting to settle in...

A mysterious box turns the life of an inmate into a dead end hallucinatory trip.

(Independent Films)

UK / 6minutes

Wall

Laci is a 16-year old gypsy boy, who lives off casual jobs. Every morning, the same waiting for some...

Laci is a young gypsy worker hired to build a wall: his first look beyond holds an unusual revelation...

(Proton Cinema)

Hungary / 11minutes

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2014

A “SPECIAL” WELCOME INDEED. We are at the opening of the 60th edition of the International Short Film Festival...

In its 60th anniversary, Oberhausen sets out to discover a "cinema without film" between experimentation, memory and absence.

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Adrift

Simon Christen shot for two years various photos of a misty San Francisco at dusk, to compose this highly...

Misty Landscapes.

(Self-produced)

USA / 5minutes

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

Larry – by Jacob Chase

A man is working in a parking lot at night. Trying to pass the time, he discovers an abandoned...

A man, a parking lot, a friendship: a tender and scary tale about our loneliness

(Jacob Chase)

USA / 5minutes

OPEN CALL: WE ARE LOOKING FOR CONTRIBUTORS!

Join our team! Write about the best short films from around the world, help us finding the next filmmaking...

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