Inamorata – by A-lan Holt

Inamorata is the first short film written and directed by playwright, filmmaker and Stanford University educator A-lan Holt. She...

A painful (and autobiographical) love story of magic and sisterhood

(TRUE MVMNT)

USA / 21minutes

Symphony no. 42 – by Réka Bucsi

The first scene of Symphony no. 42, animated short film by Réka Bucsi, necessarily creates extremely high expectations. What...

A fox in the woods is questioning about the essence of universe and then she shot herself.

(MOME Anim)

Hungary / 9minutes

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

Dia de Los Muertos

Just like Alice goes dan the rabbit hole, Nina enters the world of the dead through a blue flower....

On the Day of the Dead, a traditional Mexican festivity, little Nina goes to visit her mother's grave, initiating a magical journey int a colorful and festive afterlife.

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USA / 3minutes

Can You Read My Lips?

Can You Read My Lips? is an immersive short from director David Terry Fine about lip-reading based on the...

What's it like to use one sense to do the work of another?

(Little Moving Pictures)

USA / 5minutes

021 Capalbio Cinema International Shortfilm Fest

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive...

The historic Maremman festival opens its 21th edition with an entirely renewed formula in the name of Re/Generation.

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Prospect

In  a not-so-distant future, a father and his teenage daughter are on an alien planet looking for precious materials....

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

(Shepfilms)

USA / 14minutes

Record/Play

A man cries while listening an old tape, we hear the voice of a woman talking about how she...

War, time travel and a broken walkman are the backdrop to this science-fiction love story

(Collaboration Factory)

USA / 11minutes

Agua Viva – by Alexa Lim Haas

Winner of SXSW Best Animation Short in 2018, Alexa Lim Haas’ animation Agua Viva is a poetic animation about...

A short animation about feelings that no language can describe.

(Borscht Corporation)

USA / 6minutes

Online Premiere: The Show MAS Go On

What is MAS? Let’s explain it to non-roman citizens. It is a legendary shop in Rome, nearby Piazza Vittorio, in...

Artist Rä di Martino celebrates MAS , the Roman famed "department stores of the people", with a art-doc poised between fiction and reality.

(Produzione Illuminati / Think Cattleya / Federica Maria Bianchi (Snaporazverein))

Italian / 30minutes

Otherhalf – by Ben West

Otherhalf is described by the authors as a comedy about a man who decides to “break up” with himself. The...

A literal conflict with themselves, by Framestore

(Framestore)

USA / 10minutes

Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Waste (Yaderni wydhody) is the striking fourth short film by Ukrainian director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, following Incident (2006), Diagnosis (2009) and Deafness (2010) which represent some kind...

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

(Arthouse Traffic, Volodymyr Tykhyy)

Ukraine / 23minutes

Ududeagu

Before there were kings, there was a spider – life and death intertwine in Ududeagu, the intimate and mystery...

Before there were kings, there was a spider: language and body as habitat in a dark and mystery mutant experiment

(Akwaeke Emezi)

Nigeria / 2minutes

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

Eat My Shit

Samantha (Anna Marìa Polverosa) has taken a selfie of her face and posted it on Instagram, but it has...

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

(The Other Side Films)

Spain / 3minutes

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

A Morning Stroll – by Grant Orchard

One day, during a morning walk, a man meets a chicken. The chicken turns the corner, it mounts the stairs of a flat,...

A New Yorker and a chicken: an exercise in style by Grant Orchard

(Studio AKA)

UK / 7minutes

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

Motorville

The map of America comes to life and starts wandering around looking for oil reserves, long extinguished from the...

The United States of America come to life in the search of the lost oil.

(Self-produced)

USA / 3minutes

The Cosmic Dope – A Plant Experience – by CLEMENTE

The Cosmic Dope – A Plant Experience by the Brazilian director CLEMENTE, born in San Paolo, is presented as...

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

(Paranoid)

Brazil / 5minutes

James

Presented at Sundance, and awarded in many international festivals, James is kind of a fragment of a coming-of-age tale,...

The lonely coming of age of a Northern Ireland's boy on his path towards self-discovery.

(Student Film)

Northern Ireland / 18minutes

Abe

Abe was programmed to love. Until recently, he had a family: he was living with them, cooking, helping them...

What if a robot that was programmed to love stops being loved by those around him?

(Zero-G Productions)

UK / 9minutes

Online Premiere: Dinola

Dinola is a child living in the village of Ushguli, in Georgia. Her father has just died, and the...

In the cold mountains of Georgia, a widow is forced to marry another man and leave her life and child behind.

(20 Steps Production)

Georgia / 14minutes

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