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Nyosha – by Liran Kapel & Yael Dekel

Nyosha is the animated short documentary based on the true story of Holocaust survivor Nomi Kapel. Israeli directors Liran...

An animated tribute to those who survived the Holocaust and to the memory of its victims

(Liran Kapel Studio)

Israel / 11minutes
Steadfast Stanley – by John Cody Kim

I believe that ugliness and beauty, rather than being two sides of the same coin, are two good neighbours which...

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." And sometimes they save it...

(CalArts)

USA / 4minutes
Player Two – by John Wikstrom

As so often in similar situations, all begins with a little and innocent question: can video games be a...

Can video games be a spiritual experience? The game will never be over

(Self Produced)

USA / 2minutes
Sunday – by Patrick Doyon

It’s a cold Sunday in wintertime. Sunday immediately brings us back to our childhood and, for a moment, we really...

An animation that brings the unexpected in an ordinary family lunch

(National Film Board of Canada)

Canada / 10minutes
Chop My Money – by Theo Anthony

Patient, the protagonist of Chop My Money, short doc directed by Theo Anthony, lives in Goma, Congo. In Congo there...

This world is not the world: a day in the life of three street kids in the Eastern Congo

(Theo Anthony Productions, LLC)

USA / 13minutes
Behind the Schoolbag – by Nic Ho Chun Yu

Shaun’s childhood is hell – hunted by other students, ridiculed, excluded, victim of cruel jokes. He’s really exasperated and thinks that the solution...

Against bullying, love yourself: a story about self-salvation

(Intoxic Studio)

Hong Kong / 9minutes

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Nyosha – by Liran Kapel & Yael Dekel

An animated tribute to those who survived the Holocaust and to the memory of its victims

Steadfast Stanley – by John Cody Kim

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." And sometimes they save it...

Player Two – by John Wikstrom

Can video games be a spiritual experience? The game will never be over

Sunday – by Patrick Doyon

An animation that brings the unexpected in an ordinary family lunch

Chop My Money – by Theo Anthony

This world is not the world: a day in the life of three street kids in the Eastern Congo

Behind the Schoolbag – by Nic Ho Chun Yu

Against bullying, love yourself: a story about self-salvation

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La Boca Del Léon

A man obsessed with the world of dead messes up with the dark arts and make one last call for help.

Coach Nison – by Charlie Hoxie

A table tennis champion from Tajikistan opens a club in Brooklyn where he trains the next generation of talent

7:35 in the Morning

One morning a woman enters a restaurant – only to be met with silence instead of people talking...

Does the Italian film system neglect short films and its emerging talents?

Our interview with Jacopo Chessa, the director of the Italian National Center for Short Films.

Eat My Shit

The moving story of a girl whose butthole is where her mouth should be.

Redesigning Christmas

What's Christmas like when your parents are both modernism-loving architects?

59th San Francisco Film Festival: 15 days of films

From April 21 to May 5, 175 films from 46 countries at the longest-running film festival in America

Focus On: Federica Gianni, Director of Primo and The Friend from Tel Aviv

At MedFilm Festival, we met Federica Gianni, who told us about her short films: watch the online premieres of The Friend from Tel Aviv and Primo

Otherhalf – by Ben West

A literal conflict with themselves, by Framestore

Next Floor

During an opulent and luxurious banquet, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage.

Happiness – by Steve Cutts

Can we buy happiness? Are we really trapped? An economic textbook about our contemporary society

Chop My Money – by Theo Anthony

This world is not the world: a day in the life of three street kids in the Eastern Congo

Father – by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso

The flow of daily life in the shadow of dictatorship

The Optimist

A young book lover tries desperately to get the book everyone else has.

Mute

In a world where people are born without a mouth, a gory accident leads to a discovery that will change their lives forever.

Malaria

A classic Western story of death and revenge told with an innovative mix of stop motion techniques, in-camera effects and animation.

Belly

A coming of age tale about brotherhood, friendship and separation.

Agua Viva – by Alexa Lim Haas

A short animation about feelings that no language can describe.

Wind

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

Caveirão

Every night, time stops for a moment in Sao Paolo, and ghosts and mosters of all kinds dance and play music on the city's deserted streets.

Sundance Film Festival 2017 Announces Shorts Programs: Taste These 7 Shorts

Seven shorts to watch online from the 68 programmed to play over January 19-29 in Park City

The Story of Ones

Like entering a roomful of stories, the sound of the Vietnamese state radio introduces us into the city life of Hanoi.

The Arab Series #4: The Wind

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

Prospect

Straight out of this year's SXSW, an enchanting tale of survival in an hostile planet.