Retro | Good Short Films

Guida – by Rosana Urbes

Guida has dedicated her life working as an archivist, her days, for thirty years, are marked by an unabashed...

Beauty of life is ageless.

(Belisa Proença)

Brazil / 11minutes
The Shift

American suburbs, 1964. An ordinary day in the life of an ordinary man. Joe, our protagonist, comes home from...

1964. Joe's seemingly ordinary day takes a bad turn, as he comes home to find out that his wife hasn't been cooking dinner. And there's a very good reason for that.

(Eppich Films )

USA / 9minutes
The Saddest Boy in the World

Timothy Higgins recalls his entire life on the day of his ninth birthday. He’s constantly thinking about suicide. Written and...

The birthday party of the saddest boy in the world.

(Modern Family Productions )

Canada / 14minutes
Sniffer

In a not so distant future, not much has changed… except for the force of gravity. For some reason,...

In a not so distant future, the absence of gravity complicates the everyday life, but for true dreamers it could also be a way to escape it all.

(Dream Factory)

Norway / 10minutes
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
The Elaborate End of Robert Ebb

50’s B-movies, R.K.O., drive-ins, Universal’s monster movies…. All these and more inspired Clement Bolla, Fx Goby and Matthieu Landour...

An innocuous practical joke goes bad, in this spectacular homage to 50s B-movies.

(Nexus Productions)

France / 13minutes

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Retro (6)

Guida – by Rosana Urbes

Beauty of life is ageless.

The Shift

1964. Joe's seemingly ordinary day takes a bad turn, as he comes home to find out that his wife hasn't been cooking dinner. And there's a very good reason for that.

The Saddest Boy in the World

The birthday party of the saddest boy in the world.

Sniffer

In a not so distant future, the absence of gravity complicates the everyday life, but for true dreamers it could also be a way to escape it all.

The Provider

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

The Elaborate End of Robert Ebb

An innocuous practical joke goes bad, in this spectacular homage to 50s B-movies.

On Replay

Italian shorts at Cannes Film Festival 2015

The Italian short films industry "shows off" at Marché du Film of the prestigious French festival, thanks to the support of the Italian Short Film Centre.

Jonah

A tale full of surprises and special effects narrates the destructive consequences of fame and wealth in the life of a boy from Zanzibar.

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2014

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

Lazy Daze – by Brian Smee

A kaleidoscopic journey into a dog's dream.

A Morning Stroll – by Grant Orchard

A New Yorker and a chicken: an exercise in style by Grant Orchard

Three Fitted Flies – by Sois de Traca

Bereavement between faith and superstition: the amazing 2D animation by the Spanish collective

A girl named Elastika

A simple yet very creative stop-motion short about a girl made of rubber bands traveling on a pinboard.

Papa – by Natalie Labarre

The diary of an imperfect father who tries hard to be a perfect dad.

L’Ondee

A small elegy of rain that nods to the history of cinema

Ulysse – by H. B. Meyrant, M. Chabannes, A. Labadie, C. Theuillon

Through digital animation a modern Ulysses brings us in his oniric trip caused by the catching gaze of a strange mermaid.

Malatesta Short Film Festival Unveils Its First Edition Line-Up

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

Online Premiere: Il Fischietto (The Whistle)

The story of a little girl facing a traumatic event and her personal way of acceptance.

The Eagleman Stag

An innovative and staggeringly beautiful stop motion story about life and the passage of time. Best Animation at BAFTA 2011.

Holiday Fear – by Nicholas Payne Santos

The last 3 minutes and 50 seconds of a slasher movie: who has the balls to kill Bad Santa?

The Rise Of The Fashion Short

From Wes Anderson to Spike Jonze, many directors are experimenting with the Fashion Film, a newborn genre in which everything is possible

Past Forward, David O. Russell’s Star-Studded Prada Short Film

The acclaimed director filmed a surreal, futuristic silent "cinema poem" in black & white

Symphony no. 42 – by Réka Bucsi

A fox in the woods is questioning about the essence of universe and then she shot herself.

Ouro – by Pierre-Jean Le Moël & Eva Jiahui Gao

A fairytale in action about vengeance, Ouroboros, and the power of women

Memories of Papé, the short film by Nicolas Polixene

The private diary by French director of Martinique descent

Meanwhile

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

Duku Spacemarines

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

He Took His Skin Off For Me

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.

FOCUS ON: The Island of All Together

Conversations in Lesbos with the Dutch directors who invited tourists and refugees to talk each another