Dystopia | Good Short Films

Blue Screen – by Riccardo Bolo & Alessandro Arfuso

“If the images of the present don’t change, then change the images of the past.” Blue Screen opens with...

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

(AAMOD & Greve61)

Italy / 17minutes
Transmission – by Varun Raman and Tom Hancock

After a long and extremely successful run in the festival circuit, British dystopian short film Transmission is now available...

Welcome To Britannia. Together We Stand Alone.

(Parallel Madness)

UK / 18minutes
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
Alien Attack from the Interspace – by Alessio Gonnella

Sci-fi in Italy is possible. Thinking about Italian cinematographic difficulties to approach this genre, it seems just an oxymoron....

Sci-fi in Italy is possible, but... How can the trumpet save us all?

(Festina Lente)

Italy / 24minutes
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
All Men Are Called Robert – by Marc-Henri Boulier

A naked and scared young man runs through the woods, chased by someone. His confused and desperate run is...

An anxiety run through a brutal truth

(Insolence Productions, R! Stone Productions)

Francia / 6minutes

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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

Transmission – by Varun Raman and Tom Hancock

Welcome To Britannia. Together We Stand Alone.

It’s No Game – by Oscar Sharp

In this day and age, how useful are screenwriters?

Alien Attack from the Interspace – by Alessio Gonnella

Sci-fi in Italy is possible, but... How can the trumpet save us all?

Hyper-Reality – by Keiichi Matsuda

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

All Men Are Called Robert – by Marc-Henri Boulier

An anxiety run through a brutal truth

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Expo

Science fiction and melodrama come together in this story of loss, loneliness and survival.

The Most Astounding Fact

“What’s the most astounding fact you can share with us about the universe?” The astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson answers.

Sofia

The fragility of family relationships through the intimate communication between two young sisters.

(Italiano) Good Short Films presenta la prima Private View all’iQOS Embassy di Milano

Black Metal – by Kat Candler

The lead singer of a black metal band dealing with guilt and sorrow: if an artist's work is used for unintended purposes, is the artist partially responsible?

Crush

The search for the perfect armchair becomes a reflection on love and relationships.

Choros

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

Soy negra, soy marica y soy puta – by Hugo Meijer & Cas van der Pas

A documentary about Diana Navarro, a lawyer, trade unionist and prostitute who's fighting for LGBTQ rights

Slow

An online-dating hook up takes an unexpected turn cause of the men's different expectations.

Growing Girl – by Marnie Ellen Hertzler

A Powerpoint presentation about snakes is intertwined with a woman’s memories of abuse in the workplace

FOCUS ON: Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari

Interview with the directors behind "The Silence," the Italian entry in Competition at Cannes 2016

Noah

A “screenager romance” with a spymovie-turn between attention disorder e social networking.

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2014

In its 60th anniversary, Oberhausen sets out to discover a "cinema without film" between experimentation, memory and absence.

Project X – by Laura Poitras and Henrik Moltke

From the director of Citizenfour, narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, a journey into NSA's NYC surveillance hub

World of Glory (Opening Scene)

A plain, ordinary man tells us about his work as a real-estate broker, his dead father, his ordinary home and so on in a naturalistic voice, lacking any emotions.

Edmond – by Nina Gantz

A stop motion bitter sweet black poetry

Past Forward, David O. Russell’s Star-Studded Prada Short Film

The acclaimed director filmed a surreal, futuristic silent "cinema poem" in black & white

Father – by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso

The flow of daily life in the shadow of dictatorship

A Pale Blue Dot

An uplifting animation with commentary by Carl Sagan, offers us an unexpected perspective of our earthly existence.

The Life & Death of an iPhone

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

The Arab Series #3: War On Famous Canvas

Syrian war scenes swarm the famous paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci, Salvador Dalí, Pieter Brueghel and Paul Gauguin

The Arab Series #4: The Wind

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

Citizen versus Kane

When death arrives on the set of a low-budget "Citizen Kane" remake, what's there to do to save the production?

Memoria del fuego – by Francesco Clerici

From the director of "Hand Gestures," the manufacturing of Cuban cigars in a factory in Estelí, Nicaragua