Jonah

Kibwe Tavares is one of  UK’s most exciting young directors. An achitecture grad with a lifelong love of cinema,...

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

(BFI Film Fund)

UK / 18minutes

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

Autobiographical Scene Number 6882

(from Jeffrey Bowers via Vice)  A group of friends are walking across a bridge, discussing the finer aspects of alcohol, when they begin...

A group of friends watches as one of them attempts to jump into the water from a bridge.

(Plattform Produktion)

Sweden / 9minutes

Three Fitted Flies – by Sois de Traca

Three Fitted Flies (Tres moscas a medida) is a 2D animated short film directed by the Spanish directors María Álvarez and Elisa Morais. Sois...

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

(Sois de Traca)

Spain / 8minutes

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

Sorry We Don’t Help Darkies

A Caribbean family is under attack during the London race riots. We’re in England, in 1958, and racial hatred...

A tragic episode of racism in 50s London.

(TBone Productions)

UK / 10minutes

Bianco

A blinding white, a barren nature  that’s pure and precious at the same time. We are in Carrara, Tuscany,...

A solemn and silent Italian shortdoc on the marble quarries of Carrara.

(Student Film)

Italy / 9minutes

Dealer

In late December 2013 the elusive British musician William Bevan, aka Burial, published an unannounced EP, The Rival Dealer....

A nocturne crime story inspired by and set to Burial's Rival Dealer.

(The Sweetshop)

UK / 11minutes

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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Wind

A distant land where the entire social system is based on the power of the wind. Strong and relentless,...

The everyday activities of the inhabitants of an extremely windy area are hard. But what if the wind stopped blowing?

(HAW Hamburg Department Design)

Germany / 4minutes

We Will Live Again

We Will Live Again is a mesmerising shortdoc following Cryonics Institut’s CEO Ben Best and Andy Zawacki, the caretakers of 99...

Stripped of their blood, filled with antifreeze liquid, and frozen: a looks inside the unusual and extraordinary operations of the Cryonics Institute.

(Brooklyn Underground Films)

USA / 12minutes

Harry Grows Up

Falling in Love is tough. And as your first love leaves you to go to College even the New...

New York is a tough place to find love. Especially for an 18-month-old living on his own.

(Abaloon Films)

USA / 12minutes

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

The Arab Series #1: Noor

Ramadan is coming and 13 year-old Fingo has one wish — he wants to hang lights on his apartment...

For the celebration of the upcoming Ramadan, Fingo has one wish: to decorate with colored lights the building he lives in.

(Self-produced)

Egypt / 15minutes

Crowfunding: “Lindiota” – by Chiara Livia Arrigo

Chiara Livia Arrigo is a young Milanese director of Sicilian origin, who lives and works in Rome. She launched...

Life and memory of a lonly anti-hero from Lindos, between rotoscope and live footage.

(Ring Film (promo) )

Italian / 2minutes

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

Segundito – by Carlos & Roberto Valle

Horacio and his wife have a son who does not stand still for a second. He does not stop even...

Stay still a second! A flash of genius by the brothers directors of The Chair of Life

(Auntie)

Spain / 2minutes

Behind the Biennale: A Short History of the World’s Most Important Art Exhibition

What would the world be like without the Venice Biennale? Director Oscar Boyson asked this question to a group...

What would the world be like without the Venice Biennale? This short doc answers to the question in a very pop manner through archival images, artworks and interviews.

(Artsy)

USA / 6minutes

It’s No Game – by Oscar Sharp

It’s No Game is director Oscar Sharp‘s follow-up to last year short film Sunspring, written entirely by an algorithm...

In this day and age, how useful are screenwriters?

(48 Hour Film Challenge / Sci-Fi London Film Festival)

UK / 8minutes

Jinxy Jenkins, Lucky Lou – by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon

He’s a nerd, she’s an optimist. He’s sad, she’s cheerful. He collects misadventures, she lives adventure. They don’t know each...

The attraction of opposites... hurtling down the hills of San Francisco

(Ringling College of Art and Design)

USA / 4minutes

Lost Cubert

Cubert’s life revolves around his monotonous and repetitive work. He repeats the same actions every day, in the cold...

The monotonous and repetitive work of an everyday man suddenly turns into an Escherian nightmare.

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Germany / 6minutes

FOCUS ON: Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings, writer of Thunder Road and director of Thunder Road, is also the main actor in  Thunder Road. His short film, Thunder...

Interview with the director of Thunder Road, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival

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OPEN CALL: WE ARE LOOKING FOR CONTRIBUTORS!

Join our team! Write about the best short films from around the world, help us finding the next filmmaking...

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Mobile Film Festival 2018: Call For Movies

Created by Bruno Smadja back in 2005, the Mobile Film Festival arrives in 2018 at its 13th edition. For the...

Bruno Smadja created the festival in 2005 to discover and support talented young directors on a very simple principle: 1 mobile, 1 minute, 1 film

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