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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Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother

Tom Hardy plays a temperamental aspiring soldier in a story of brotherly love and strife.

The Herd

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There's a lot of talk about tattoos, but this is the first time we see people from an older generation who are proud to sport the ink they wear.

The Most Astounding Fact

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

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.

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

Scrambled – by Bastiaan Schravendeel

The immortal charm of the Rubik's cube

Memoria del fuego – by Francesco Clerici

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

Afronauts – Zambia’s Space Program

A short presented at the Berlinale and a photographic book narrate the incredible space-adventure of an african dreamer in the 60s

Memory by Design

An innovative exercise in style about the preservation of memories.

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.

Pilgrims – by John Doan

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

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?

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

Analogue People in a Digital Age

As the analogue age draws to a close, eight men sit in an Irish bar and battle to remain relevant in the digital world.

Cinematics – by Pier Paolo

A funny visual timeline of classic films and characters

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?

Lago Film Fest 2020, The Woodstock Of Short Films Wants You

From 24 July to 1 August, Revine Lago is taken over by Italy's biggest short films party: the call is open

Gaiwan – by Elia Mouatamid

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

Happiness – by Steve Cutts

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

Conventional

A horror film actress deals with her fall from stardom and learn the true nature of the genre.

The Cosmic Dope – A Plant Experience – by CLEMENTE

The experimentation of the effects of a new and unknown species of orchid: an impeccable style exercise

FOCUS ON: The Island of All Together

Conversations in Lesbos with the Dutch directors who invited tourists and refugees to talk each another

The Cat Piano

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