Citizen versus Kane

An independent filmmaker’s ambitious project of  remaking Citizen Kane in a modern-day setting has finally took off. As it...

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

(Premiere Heure)

France / 18minutes

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

From Dad to Son – by Nils Knoblich

A prisoner receives the message that his old father needs help with care of the farm. In his desperate...

Son's love... in papercraft

(Kunsthochschule Kassel)

Germany / 6minutes

Cannes Court Métrage 2019: The Short Films Selection

The 72nd Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup of Cannes Court Métrage 2019. The programme features 11 short...

A look at the 11 short films competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or and the 17 films from the Cinéfondation

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Slow

Body, desire and violence. This shortfilm by Darius Clark Monroe shows an intricate relationship with unexpected twists. The two...

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

(Self-produced)

USA / 13minutes

Papa – by Natalie Labarre

Papa is a short animated story about an eccentric and overzealous father who realizes he’s not a perfect daddy. He thinks that...

The diary of an imperfect father who tries hard to be a perfect dad.

(Cargo Collective)

USA / 6minutes

Taxi Cab Teranga

A day in new york. A man gets up and goes to work. A girl, perhaps n the other...

A day in the life of Omar, a Senegalese taxi driver in New York City, who learns that any day could be his last.

(Self-produced)

USA / 11minutes

The People’s Network Showcase: A New Generation of Short Films Directors

The People’s Network Showcase is the new project launched by El Rey, the Latino channel created by Robert Rodriguez...

The channel created by Robert Rodriguez launches a new User Generated short films series

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The Arab Series #1: Noor

Ramadan is coming and 13 year-old Fingo has one wish — he wants to hang lights on his apartment...

For the celebration of the upcoming Ramadan, Fingo has one wish: to decorate with colored lights the building he lives in.

(Self-produced)

Egypt / 15minutes

Thunder Road – by Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings is probably a man of few words. Or a communication genius. The official synopsis for Thunder Road states:...

Officer Arnaud loved his mom... The 2016 Sundance short winner

(Unison LA)

USA / 13minutes

Online Premiere: Jung – by Munseong Yun

When you watch Jung you suddenly have the feeling that you are in a different world, where the time...

Two South Korean warriors, divided between friendship and rivalry.

(Student Film (Seul Istitute of Arts))

South Korea / 7minutes

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

Past Forward is the multi-platform short film collaboration between Miuccia Prada and David O. Russell. A “cinema poem,” a surreal,...

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

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The Tree – by Cheikh Mohammed Horma

A lumberjack travels in the desert. There’re just sand dunes, ants, dromedary camels and bulldozers around him. A bunch...

An immersive visual experience of Sahara desert, exploring the changing balance between man and nature

(Sahara Lab)

Morocco / 9minutes

Marilyn Myller

In the beginning it was nothing. And then everything appeared. Explosions of light and matter, forms that combine and...

A witty satire on the art world and the anxieties of the creative process masterfully directed by stop-motion animation genius Mikey Please.

(Blink Industries)

UK / 7minutes

1500 Words – by Andrew Chaplin

You have 1,500 words left to live. How would you react to that sentence? Hard to imagine how few are 1,500 words,...

What would you do if you went to the doctors and discovered that you only had 1500 words left to live?

(Hungry Bear Media)

UK / 9minutes

HollyShorts Film Festival 2020 Starts the Race to the Oscars

The organizers behind the 16th edition of the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival have unveiled this year’s official lineup. 418...

The Oscar-qualifying festival to showcase 418 short films with 128 international projects from 36 countries

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Made

Minako, a young Japanese female, lives in a Tokyo penthouse with her European boyfriend, a successful musician. One morning she...

A Japanese lady holds an intriguing double life, but her secret is about to be discovered.

(DAYFORNIGHT)

UK / 19minutes

Movie Creative Contest – OPEN CALL!

From George Muller’s Lorenzo’s Oil, starring Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte, a story about the research for a cure...

Dompè Group in collaboration with Good Short Films, launches the all Italian competition which tells the research through the eyes of young writers. Prize: €5000

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92 Dreamin

The current overhyped 90s nostalgia is often forced and deeply naive, but there are some fortunate cases in which...

Brooklyn, 1992. A lonely skater gets thrown in a dreamy virtual world, where everything is possible

(SVA - New York (Student Film))

USA / 4minutes

FOCUS ON: Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings, writer of Thunder Road and director of Thunder Road, is also the main actor in  Thunder Road. His short film, Thunder...

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

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Godard’s Message

A pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, Jean- Luc Godard had a huge influence on modern cinema,  givig it a...

"Khan Khanne": Jean-Luc Godard's videoletter to Cannes' president Gilles Jacob: a testament for tomorrow's cinema.

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Cut Off

A mysterious briefcase, a gun, handcuffs. A sudden phone call. We see a man, presumably a spy or a...

When fiction starts to blend with reality, a novelist must act quickly - his life may depend on it!

(Intellectual Propaganda)

USA / 8minutes

Panorama – by Gianluca Abbate

Panorama, world premiered at the International Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand Short Film 2014, is the animated short film directed by Gianluca...

A polis stretches away over an infinite global space with no more uninhabited places nor frontiers

(Self-Produced)

Italy / 7minutes

The 6 Best Iranian Short Films In the Past Years

When talking about Iranian cinema and their films, names like Ashghar Farhadi, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and a lot...

Not only Ashghar Farhadi and Jafar Panahi: a new generation of young directors is making the Iranian cinema so proud

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