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

Marilyn Myller

In the beginning it was nothing. And then everything appeared. Explosions of light and matter, forms that combine and...

A witty satire on the art world and the anxieties of the creative process masterfully directed by stop-motion animation genius Mikey Please.

(Blink Industries)

UK / 7minutes

The Italian short film (potential) industry.

Is there an Italian “short film industry”? Is there an economy linked to short film sector at all? These are...

The "Report 2014" of the Italian Short Film Centre sheds a light on an key-sector of the audiovisual that struggles to define itself "industrial".

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Pilgrims – by John Doan

What time can do to a man? Joseph Brodsky’s obsession becomes flesh in John Doan’s body. Based on the...

What time can do to a man? Joseph Brodsky's obsession becomes a short film

(Reload Reality Films)

Germany / Ukraine / 6minutes

Memories of Papé, the short film by Nicolas Polixene

Memories of Papé Diary of my short film. The beginning My name is Nicolas Polixene and I’m 33 years old. Native...

The private diary by French director of Martinique descent

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Person to Person

Back in March 2014, New Yorker critic Richard Brody wrote an article about the role of shorts in the...

A New Yorker's daily life is halted as he finds a stranger girl sleeping on his apartment's floor.

(Arts+Labor)

USA / 18minutes

The Eagleman Stag

Peter is a famous entomologist who spent all his life reflecting on the way we perceive time. The older...

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

(The Royal College of Art)

UK / 8minutes

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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Sleepwalk

The slow-paced melancholic riff of “Sleep Walk“ from by brothers Santo & Johnny (1959) entitles a nd introduces into the scene of...

The presage of the end is consumed in front of our eyes, but there is still time for a last love gesture.

(Produced by Rob Meyers and Danon Hinty)

USA / 3minutes

A Pale Blue Dot

Many of the problems that plague our small terrestrial existences can be often “solved” with a change of perspective,...

An uplifting animation with commentary by Carl Sagan, offers us an unexpected perspective of our earthly existence.

(Student Film (Sheridan College))

Canada / 4minutes

Citizen versus Kane

An independent filmmaker’s ambitious project of  remaking Citizen Kane in a modern-day setting has finally took off. As it...

When death arrives on the set of a low-budget "Citizen Kane" remake, what's there to do to save the production?

(Premiere Heure)

France / 18minutes

Taxi Cab Teranga

A day in new york. A man gets up and goes to work. A girl, perhaps n the other...

A day in the life of Omar, a Senegalese taxi driver in New York City, who learns that any day could be his last.

(Self-produced)

USA / 11minutes

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

Gaiwan – by Elia Mouatamid

A grave yard. Two men. Gaiwan is the traditional Chinese teaware. That’s what one of the two uses for...

A grave yard, two men: a parable on hope and death, which equates men beyond preconceptions

(Luna Film)

Italy / 4minutes

Whateverest

The beauty of micro-doc is that its formal requirements  (brevity and synthesis) obligates to discard too big and complex topics...

A documentary that moves and entertains on an anonymous anti-hero of the province and his passion for electronic music.

(Bacon )

Norway / 16minutes

The Landing – by Josh Tanner

It all starts (or ends) in a hospital room, where a mature man stands watching the last glimpe of...

Summer of 1960, a Midwestern farm: Where is the enemy?

(Perception Pictures)

Australia / 18minutes

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

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

Scrambled – by Bastiaan Schravendeel

Can a Rubik’s Cube still be an intriguing game for millennials? It is probably the question that the animators...

The immortal charm of the Rubik's cube

(Polder Animation)

Netherlands / 7minutes

FOCUS ON: Where You Are by Graham Parkes

Graham Parkes is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and independent game designer from Los Angeles. His last short film Where You Are...

Interview with the American director "who takes his work seriously, but not himself"

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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

Spirit of Berlin (July 1945)

How did Berlin look in July 1945, a few weeks after the surrender of Germany? It is shown in...

An exceptional montage of the semi-destroyed city made with rare archival materials, in colors and HD.

(CHRONOS-MEDIA GmbH)

Germany / 7minutes

Fugu & Tako

Recently we wrote a short guide on how to gain success on the web with a short film for...

The friendship between two Japanese white collar men changes as one of them turns into a puffer fish inside a sushi bar.

(Produced by Wendy Green)

USA / 8minutes

Online Premiere: Arianna

Arianna is the title of the promo-short realised by Roman director Carlo Lavagna ​​to promote the crowdfunding campaign on...

How to turn a simple crowfunding promo into a short masterpiece.

(Ring Film (promo) )

Italy / 4minutes