Online Premiere: Mario de Marcella – Il Solengo

Is it at all possible to live outside the human community? This is the essential question raised by Il Solengo,...

The incredible story of a solitary man living in the Vejano forest in the heart of Italy.

(Ring Film)

Italy / 7minutes

Borrowed Time – by Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj

Animated short film and drama. We are not used to associate this genre to poignant and dark tales, but watching Borrowed...

American animation comes out of its comfort zone and tells the drama

(Quorum Films)

USA / 7minutes

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

Rise – by David Karlak

In a not so far future, robots develop feelings. This unexpected event scares humanity, which reacts as a frightened child...

A justified revolt of the machines.

(Underground Films / Vertigo Entertainment)

USA / 5minutes

Holiday Fear – by Nicholas Payne Santos

The last 3 minutes and 50 seconds of a slasher movie. The girl encounters one more time the killer...

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

(BullMoose Pictures)

USA / 4minutes

The Missing Scarf

One morning, Albert the squirrel wakes up and realizes that his beloved scarf is gone. This unpleasant discovery leads...

An apparent children's story turns out to be a philosophical reflection on overcoming a loss, through existentialism, nihilism and minimal graphics.

(Creative Belly Ltd.)

Ireland / 7minutes

Dark Hallucinations – by Diego Salinas

Dark Hallucinations is an experimental short film directed by Diego Salinas. Intended as an installation by Funken Studio collective,...

An immersive audiovisual installation by Funken Studio, a chronicle of darkness where life loses every possible grip

(Funken Studio)

Chile / USA / 3minutes

FOCUS ON: Tamar Rudoy

Daughter of the Bride premiered at Cannes 2016 Directors’ Fortnight. Written by Timna Rose Perez and directed by Tamar Rudoy, the short...

Interview with the Israeli director of Daughter of the Bride, premiered at Cannes 2016 Directors' Fortnight

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Ennesimo Film Festival 2018, the Italian short film carnival

Welcome to Tile Valley: Ennesimo Film Festival 2018 is an illuminating example of cultural project management. From 4th to...

Welcome to Tile Valley: we went to the Ennesimo Film Festival in Fiorano Modenese and no, this is not "just another" festival report

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Inamorata – by A-lan Holt

Inamorata is the first short film written and directed by playwright, filmmaker and Stanford University educator A-lan Holt. She...

A painful (and autobiographical) love story of magic and sisterhood

(TRUE MVMNT)

USA / 21minutes

Hyper-Reality – by Keiichi Matsuda

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that technology plays an important role in our lives. A couple of weeks...

The Anglo-Japanese director describes a daily world dominated by technology

(Fractal)

UK / 6minutes

Junkyard

This animation by Dutch animator Hisko Hulsing has won 22 awards in many festivals across the world, and not by chance. It’s...

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

(il Luster Films, Cinété)

Netherlands / 18minutes

Belly Flop – by Jeremy Collins and Kelly Dillon

Belly Flop is a short film inspired by perseverance. Directed by Jeremy Collins and Kelly Dillon, this is the funny...

Good things come to those who wait in the South-African short film challenging the US dominion in animated cinema

(Triggerfish Animation)

South Africa / 5minutes

Berlin, Berlin

Berlin, Berlin is the poignant “visual poem” by young American director of Salvadoran origin Nehemias Colindres dedicated to the dynamic...

More than just a city, a category of the mind: the passionate ode to Berlin by Nehemias Colindres.

(Betti Berlin)

Germany / 2minutes

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

Choros

Sometimes, the most radical innovations are inspired by the past. This is the case of Michael Lagan and Terah...

A dancer's movements bring a chorus of women and unexpected choreographies to life.

(Langan Films)

USA / 13minutes

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 Life & Death of an iPhone

Needless to deny: most of us live attached to the phone. A form of technological autism entirely contemporary, that even...

Life, death, and reincarnation of an iPhone from its point-of-view. An original perspective on our relatoinship with technology.

(Project Fathom)

USA / 7minutes

Duku Spacemarines

La Mécanique du Plastique  is a French creative collective founded in 2011. Thanks to the combination of the very...

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

(La Mécanique du Plastique )

France / 4minutes

The Six Dollar Fifty Man

Suburban Neo Zealand, 1970s. Smalltown life ain’t easy for those who are different, especially during childhood. Andy is a...

A festival favorite, this dramedy shows how hard it is to be a "superhero" in a suburban school in the 70s.

(Sticky Pictures)

Neo Zealand / 15minutes

Pablo’s Villa

Villa Epecuén is a suggestive town 500 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Back in the 1920s, a tourist...

Pablo Novak lives alone in the submerged Argentine ghost town of Villa Epecuén: this is his fascinating and incredible story

(Urtext Films)

Australia / 7minutes

L’Ondee

A sudden rain surprises the city: umbrellas are opened, the traffic intensifies, people seek shelter when they can. A...

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

(Folimage)

France / 8minutes

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

Robbie

The use of found footage is quite common in contemporary cinema. A recurring device in horror and science fiction,...

The incredible story of a robot, made using only NASA's archival footage.

(Self-produced)

Australia / 8minutes