The Moment – by Karis Oh

“The moment” is what makes us look up and stop the thoughts, it is time to insight. These few words...

What really matters in the end of life?

(Self Produced)

USA / 3minutes

Sundance Film Festival 2016: a taste from the short films program.

There has always been this unwritten rule accepted among short filmmakers that, if you publish your short online, you...

Five shorts to watch online from the 72 programmed to play over the next 10 days in Park City.

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Sebastian – by Sam Fragoso

Sebastian is the first short film written and directed by Sam Fragoso, formerly a film critic and actually the...

An emigrating father writes home to his son: a short film that tells in 3 minutes what is America today

(Sam Fragoso)

USA / 3minutes

Random Stop

A quiet day in the life of a county police officer. One routine stope, a phone call with his...

A gripping first person POV reenactment of the tragic last moments of the life of a police officer.

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USA / 6minutes

Requiem for Romance

A couple’s break-up call in voice-over. The images show us a man and a woman fighting, dabbing each other...

Shortlisted for the 2014 Academy Awards Best Animated short category, a story of kung-fu and forbidden love inspired by Shanghai's past.

(Self-produced)

Canada / 7minutes

Kokosmos – by Anna Radchenko

“Glory to the Soviet People, pioneers of the cosmos!”, as a dazzling propaganda poster put it during the Space...

A hymn to cosmic enthusiasm in socialist societies, coming up online (not for nothing) on Russia's Cosmonautics Day

(KODE Media)

Russia / 2minutes

Christian – by Saku Cinardi

Christian lives with his grandmother in a small apartment in the suburb of Tor Bella Monaca, Rome. Christian is a...

In one of the most infamous suburbs of Rome, a godless bully discovers he posseses a power he will need to control.

(K48 and Quiet, Please!)

Italian / 12minutes

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

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

Sequence – by Carles Torrens

The common saying “the man or woman of your dreams” is mostly referred to an unreachable ideal, which is...

Daydreaming could be so dangerous...

(Fortress Features)

Spain / 20minutes

Berliner

“Friendliness”: this is the word that, according to young Turkish director Elif Kalkan, best describes Berlin. And it is...

An ode with elegiac tones that celebrates the German capital through the faces of its inhabitants and the intimacy of their homes.

(Bahçeşehir Üniversites )

Turkey / 2minutes

Roadtrip USA

Mike Matas and his girlfriend Sharon Hwang (who also created the opening and closing titles) take us on a...

2 weeks, 3,000 miles, 5,000 photos in 3 minutes. A time-lapse journey across the USA.

(Self-produced)

USA / 3minutes

Father – by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso

Argentina, 1983. The dictatorship just passed and the horror, by now invisible, finds a place in the inside, in...

The flow of daily life in the shadow of dictatorship

(OpusBou)

France, Argentina / 12minutes

Online Premiere: Thriller

With the city of Taranto bent by pollution and uncertainty for the future in the background, Michael, 14, goes around...

Michele dreams to dance in TV like his idol Michael Jackson, but the protest in which his father is involved threatens his dream.

(Basiliciak)

Italian / 14minutes

Nigel – by Natasza Cetner

Nigel is the Royal College of Art’s grad short by Polish animator Natasza Cetner. The London-based director isn’t new...

A lonely gannet falls for a concrete bird in this relatable love story

(Royal College of Art - London)

UK / 9minutes

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

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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The Provider

It’s the 1940s, but we’re in  a dystopian, alternate reality where human survival is threatened. A man seeks refuge...

Black comedy, horror, dystopia and science fiction come together in Brianne Nord-Stewart's short.

(Random Acts Entertainment)

Canada / 8minutes

Code 8 – by Jeff Chan

In the last few years short film has been act as a springboard for a lot of young directors,...

Reality and fiction are melting in Code 8, your next sci-fi cult.

(Colony Pictures)

USA / 10minutes

Head over Heels

After many years of marriage, Walter and Madge have grown distant from each other, to the point that  they...

This Oscar-nominated animation is an heartwarming tale of a married couple whose lives have grown in opposite directions.

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UK / 10minutes

Social Butterfly

It’s Chloè’s eighteenth birthday, and she’s celebrating it in a wonderful french countryside villa. It’s a “white party” (maybe...

An american woman enters into a teenage party in the South of France, changing the life of the birthday girl forever.

(Ad Astra Films)

USA / 14minutes

Oscars 2018: 10 Documentary Shorts Finalists

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled the 10 finalists for the Documentary Shorts Oscar. The...

Like the nominees in the feature-length Best Documentary category, these 10 films feature an array of powerful subjects

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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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Broken Wing

Walking sad and dejected along the dark streets of a city, a boy comes across a junk shop that...

A real life based award-winning animation about friendship, a Rubik's cube, and the art of healing.

(Student Film (Woodsbury University))

Switzerland / 6minutes