Concorto Film Festival 2019: the Italian Fefreshing Oasis of Short Films

Concorto Film Festival 2019 does not disappoint. The Italian event (from August 17th to August 24th in Pontenure, part...

From August 17th to 24th in Pontenure (Piacenza), in the suggestive location of Parco Raggio, the 18th edition of the event: 51 shorts in competition, focus, workshops and lots of music

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Where We Are

This beautiful, delicate and poignant short could be some kind of  “long-distance relationships’ manifesto”, a pretty common way of...

Separation, distance and memory: the essence of love in 85 seconds.

(Self-produced)

USA / 1minutes

Online Premiere: Who’s Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? – by Janez Lapajne

Janez Lapajne is a Slovenian independent filmmaker and former (first) president of the Directors Guild of Slovenia. Born in...

A multicultural triangle in the occupied Europe of 1944: a sensual and emotional Alpine story of two tunes and one whistle

(Triglav Film)

Slovenia / 25minutes

Similo

2065. The entire planet is facing the climate change aftermath. One of the few habitable places left is Antarctica,...

A sci-fi romance set in a dystopian future questions about artificial love and the future of humanity. (NSFW)

(Blackmeal)

Spain / 22minutes

Singularity

Often action shorts are based on science fiction stories that reflect the current obsession with space and robots, but also...

In the midst of a war between humans and sentient androids, a Delta Force team must rescue the US President.

(The Bicycle Monarchy)

USA / 8minutes

Limbus – by Michael Philipp

1918, the First World War is over, two soldiers can finally make their way home. They survived, but their...

In war, beside life, you lose first of all yourself

(Luxs)

Switzerland / 25minutes

Online Preview: La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak / Butter Lamp

The online preview is ended. You can still watch the trailer and read the review! Starting from a very...

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

(Ama Productions)

France / China / 16minutes

Selfie

From the “mirror stage” of Lacanian memory, to the Renaissance portraits, to analog self-portraits, to serial auto-representation in the...

An hilarious 60 seconds animated "sketch" on the most viral obsession of the moment.

(Free-lance)

UK / 1minutes

He Took His Skin Off For Me

Basato sul racconto breve di Maria Hummer dallo stesso nome (che può essere ‘ascoltato’ qui, recitato dalla stessa autrice),...

(Student Film)

UK / 11minutes

The Arab Series #2: The Curse

> Click on the image to watch the film Fatine is a young Moroccan girl, she’s all pride and...

Fatine has ventured far from the village to meet her older lover. When she is caught by a group of children, all she wants to do is go home.

(Quark Films, Kasbah Films )

Morocco / 16minutes

Adrift

Simon Christen shot for two years various photos of a misty San Francisco at dusk, to compose this highly...

Misty Landscapes.

(Self-produced)

USA / 5minutes

Letters of Italian Partisans Condemned to Death – by Fausto Fornari

Letters of Italian Partisans Condemned to Death is what Ferruccio Parri called “the first anti-fascist documentary.” The short film...

The first anti-fascist documentary in the history of Italian cinema: more necessary than ever today, against any collective removal

(ANCResistenza)

Italy / 12minutes

Wall

Laci is a 16-year old gypsy boy, who lives off casual jobs. Every morning, the same waiting for some...

Laci is a young gypsy worker hired to build a wall: his first look beyond holds an unusual revelation...

(Proton Cinema)

Hungary / 11minutes

Lost Property

In a Lost & Found office an old man is working behind his desk. Every day an old lady enters...

When you lose something dear to your heart, there is only one place it can be found. The Lost Property office.

(Produced by Tom Mortimer)

UK / minutes

Dark Hallucinations – by Diego Salinas

Dark Hallucinations is an experimental short film directed by Diego Salinas. Intended as an installation by Funken Studio collective,...

An immersive audiovisual installation by Funken Studio, a chronicle of darkness where life loses every possible grip

(Funken Studio)

Chile / USA / 3minutes

The Shaman

The Shaman is the science-fiction short film written, directed, edited, and produced by Austrian filmmaker Marco Kalantari. Set in...

In the dark year 2204, Joshua is a Shaman sent on a mission to convert the soul of a giant battle colossus

(Marco Kalantari)

Austria / 17minutes

Miss Candace Hilligoss’ Flickering Halo

Miss Candace Hillligoss’ flickering halo. The title of this experimental short provides in itself the necessary information to face...

A claustrophobic and dreamlike experimental short in which frames from a 60s horror are manipulated in order to reflect on vision and on our relationship with images.

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Italy / 13minutes

Next Floor

Next Floor is the surreal short film made by  Canadian writer-director Denis Villeneuve that plunges us into an opulent...

During an opulent and luxurious banquet, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage.

(Phi Group)

Canada / 10minutes

Redesigning Christmas

Architects love Christmas. There’s a very simple reason for that: it is’s such a poorly designed holiday, and each...

What's Christmas like when your parents are both modernism-loving architects?

(National Film Board of Canada )

Canada / 2minutes

A Reasonable Request – by Andrew Laurich

There are many ways to re-build a disrupted father-son relationship: it’s possible to do it for affection or old...

How to re-build a father-son relationship in an unconventional way.

(Christina Lee)

USA / 8minutes

Guida – by Rosana Urbes

Guida has dedicated her life working as an archivist, her days, for thirty years, are marked by an unabashed...

Beauty of life is ageless.

(Belisa Proença)

Brazil / 11minutes

Conventional

Mostly known as Amy Pond in “Doctor Who” or the Nebula of “The Guardians of the Galaxy”, Scottish actress Karen...

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

(FunSize Horror)

UK / 9minutes

Ormie – by Rob Silvestri

Ormie is a pig (in every sense of the word) and he has one goal: eat. Food is his...

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

(Starz Animation Toronto)

Canada / 4minutes

Pablo’s Villa

Villa Epecuén is a suggestive town 500 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Back in the 1920s, a tourist...

Pablo Novak lives alone in the submerged Argentine ghost town of Villa Epecuén: this is his fascinating and incredible story

(Urtext Films)

Australia / 7minutes