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Adam and Eve Raised Cain – by Francesco Erba

Adam and Eve Raised Cain is a disturbing short film. Stop motion animation is usually functional to tell reassuring...

A poetic yet disturbing stop motion horror short film

(Onda Video Produzioni)

Italy / 20minutes
From Dad to Son – by Nils Knoblich

A prisoner receives the message that his old father needs help with care of the farm. In his desperate...

Son's love... in papercraft

(Kunsthochschule Kassel)

Germany / 6minutes
The Arab Series #4: The Wind

The Wind is the stop-motion animated short directed by Teir el Akhdar collective, comprised of Lina Ghaibeh, May Ghaibeh,...

The Teir el Akhdar collective tells us Syria and the war through loss, displacement, and forced migration.

(Teir el Akhdar)

Syria / 4minutes
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
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 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

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Adam and Eve Raised Cain – by Francesco Erba

A poetic yet disturbing stop motion horror short film

From Dad to Son – by Nils Knoblich

Son's love... in papercraft

The Arab Series #4: The Wind

The Teir el Akhdar collective tells us Syria and the war through loss, displacement, and forced migration.

Head over Heels

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

Marilyn Myller

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

The Eagleman Stag

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

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Motorville

The United States of America come to life in the search of the lost oil.

Suspend Belief

A meta-filmic rom-com suspended between reality and fiction.

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 Arab Series #2: The Curse

Fatine has ventured far from the village to meet her older lover. When she is caught by a group of children, all she wants to do is go home.

Tiger Boy

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.

He Took His Skin Off For Me

Pilgrims – by John Doan

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

A Brief History of John Baldessari

Narrated by Tom Waits, a pop documentary about "The guy who put dots over people's faces".

Can You Read My Lips?

What's it like to use one sense to do the work of another?

Come Swim – by Kristen Stewart

The fallacies of nowadays, namely the short film written and directed by Kristen Stewart, best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga

Interesting Ball

A red ball bounces around the city through five incredible stories, for eventually getting to the beach.

FOCUS ON: Alessandro Capitani

Our interview with the director of "Bellissima", the David di Donatello 2016 winning short film.

The Eagleman Stag

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

Alto Sauce

A cruel crime happened in the village of Alto Sauce twenty years ago: today the case has been reopened and plays a game of mirrors between past and present.

30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone)

Oil-painted animation brings to life the stories of three powerful women in postconflict Sierra Leone.

International Film Festival – Clermont Ferrand 2015

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 .

Christian – by Saku Cinardi

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

Social Butterfly

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

Funnel

His car has broken down, a guy spend a whole day on the phone while looking for a funnel.

Movie Creative Contest – OPEN CALL!

Dompè Group in collaboration with Good Short Films, launches the all Italian competition which tells the research through the eyes of young writers. Prize: €5000

Junkyard

A man is stabbed in the subway. In the last seconds before he dies, a teenage friendship flashes before his eyes.

Gaiwan – by Elia Mouatamid

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

The surreal animations of Jan Švankmajer

As the Milano Film Festival hosts a retrospective on Jan Švankmajer, we take a look at the career of the great Czech director and animator.

Conventional

A horror film actress deals with her fall from stardom and learn the true nature of the genre.