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Alto Sauce

Alto Sauce is a small town in the deep Spanish province. A cruel crime happened in the village twenty...

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.

(Escándalo Films)

Spain / 17minutes
The Pavement

The pavement, the night, those eyes, the glass, the red, the smoke, those lips, her touch, the pavement… Wait,...

The city at night, a couple, a gunshot... nothing is what it seems in this innovative and highly suspenseful neo-noir.

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USA / 3minutes
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A night chase where "nothing is as it seems", in this award-winning Italian thriller.

(Briciola TV)

Italy / 15minutes
The Cat Piano

A “feline” film noir with “beatnik” nuances: that would be the best way to describe The Cat Piano, an...

A noir animation, set in the jazz feline underworld, narrated by Nick Cave's charming and mysterious voice.

(The People's Republic Of Animation.)

Australia / 8minutes
Malaria

Western, the quintessential film genre, has been reinterpreted in many ways throughout the history of cinema. Post-modern filmmakers such...

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

(Self-produced)

Brazil / 6minutes
Random Stop

A quiet day in the life of a county police officer. One routine stope, a phone call with his...

A gripping first person POV reenactment of the tragic last moments of the life of a police officer.

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USA / 6minutes

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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.

The Pavement

The city at night, a couple, a gunshot... nothing is what it seems in this innovative and highly suspenseful neo-noir.

Online Preview: The Snake

A night chase where "nothing is as it seems", in this award-winning Italian thriller.

The Cat Piano

A noir animation, set in the jazz feline underworld, narrated by Nick Cave's charming and mysterious voice.

Malaria

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

Random Stop

A gripping first person POV reenactment of the tragic last moments of the life of a police officer.

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FOCUS ON: Jim Cummings

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

Pilgrims – by John Doan

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

Short Film Day: beautiful shorts in the shortest day of the year.

Thanks to the Italian Short Film Centre the national short film scene stands out at the Short Film Day with a wide and quality selection.

Meanwhile

Four characters are lost in their own worlds in an nameless city, but an event will reveal their intimate connection.

Blue Screen – by Riccardo Bolo & Alessandro Arfuso

A documentary directed by the android filmmaker Mk3, found in an old VHS cassette, tells the rebellion of the robots against human domination

Behind

A regression therapy session diving a girl deeply into her distant memories turns into the materialization of cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth…

The Christmas Light Killer

A man spends his December nights shutting down the power for a huge holiday light show. What is his point?

Whateverest

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

Paralys – by John Boisen & Björn Fävremark

The experience of a sleep paralysis (that you shouldn't watch alone...)

Guiding Sights

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?

Amigo

A delightful short film about friendship in 50s style, seen through the innocent eyes of a child.

Harry Grows Up

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

Offline Dating

A 'single' guy challenges himself to find a his next date without the help of the internet.

Junkyard

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

The Robbery – by Jim Cummings

After Thunder Road, another dark comedy where a robbery doesn't go so well

Gaiwan – by Elia Mouatamid

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

Wolf Call – by Ramey Newell

A short doc following the work done by wolf caretaker and award-winning photographer John Ramer

Dylan

A young transgender tells us his story on his early morning journey to Conney Island.

The Sand Storm

A sci-fi dystopian tale set in Beijing during a water shortage. Starring Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, the short led to some controversies during its development.

Skin

A lonely child taxidermist makes friends with a girl who's fascinated by his hobby. But one day he does something that will change everything.

Box Room – by Michael Lathrop

Thanks God, there is Mom!

Ormie – by Rob Silvestri

Ormie is a pig, in every sense of the word: see his attempts to gain the warm sweet taste that is his obsession

Nuclear Waste

He is a truck-driver at a radioactive wastes utilization plant. She works at the plant's decontamination laundry.

Segundito – by Carlos & Roberto Valle

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