The Chair of Life – by Carlos Valle

What holds two sisters-in-law together over a lifetime? Carmen and María are two old ladies who support each other...

The short film awarded with the First Prize at Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival 2016: a touching reflection about old age

(Auntie Films)

Spain / 10minutes

Sequence – by Carles Torrens

The common saying “the man or woman of your dreams” is mostly referred to an unreachable ideal, which is...

Daydreaming could be so dangerous...

(Fortress Features)

Spain / 20minutes

Malatesta Short Film Festival Unveils Its First Edition Line-Up

Three days of screenings, premieres and Q&As with directors dedicated to short films: the first edition of Malatesta Short...

Find out these 10 shorts you can watch online from the MalatestaShort official selection

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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

Borrowed Time – by Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj

Animated short film and drama. We are not used to associate this genre to poignant and dark tales, but watching Borrowed...

American animation comes out of its comfort zone and tells the drama

(Quorum Films)

USA / 7minutes

Robbie

The use of found footage is quite common in contemporary cinema. A recurring device in horror and science fiction,...

The incredible story of a robot, made using only NASA's archival footage.

(Self-produced)

Australia / 8minutes

Carmen – by Giuseppe Cardaci

A group of aspiring actresses is waiting for their audition to get the main role for the iconic opera...

What happens when impossible dreams strive to come true?

(Santa Fe University of Art and Design)

Italia / 7minutes

Paralys – by John Boisen & Björn Fävremark

John Boisen and Björn Fävremark are specialists in the materialisation of nightmares and private demons. They move through the...

The experience of a sleep paralysis (that you shouldn't watch alone...)

(Is This It)

Sweden / 8minutes

The Pavement

The pavement, the night, those eyes, the glass, the red, the smoke, those lips, her touch, the pavement… Wait,...

The city at night, a couple, a gunshot... nothing is what it seems in this innovative and highly suspenseful neo-noir.

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USA / 3minutes

Dylan

Dylan is an experimental documentary-film written and directed by New York director Elisabetta Rohrbaugh based on an interview with Dylan...

A young transgender tells us his story on his early morning journey to Conney Island.

(Outer Borough Pictures)

USA / 8minutes

Edmond – by Nina Gantz

On a lake shore, a man is dragging a big rock tied with a rope. He’s sitting down on...

A stop motion bitter sweet black poetry

(Emilie Jouffroy)

UK / 9minutes

Wind

A distant land where the entire social system is based on the power of the wind. Strong and relentless,...

The everyday activities of the inhabitants of an extremely windy area are hard. But what if the wind stopped blowing?

(HAW Hamburg Department Design)

Germany / 4minutes

The Driving Seat – by Phil Lowe

In order to properly write about this short movie, I felt the need to listen in loop Perfect by Ed...

The hilarious attempt of a middle aged couple to put a spark back in their marriage

(Turn the Slate Productions)

UK / 9minutes

Berliner

“Friendliness”: this is the word that, according to young Turkish director Elif Kalkan, best describes Berlin. And it is...

An ode with elegiac tones that celebrates the German capital through the faces of its inhabitants and the intimacy of their homes.

(Bahçeşehir Üniversites )

Turkey / 2minutes

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

The Chickening – by Nick DenBoer and Davy Force

It’s not so easy to talk about what Nick DenBoer and Davy Force‘s The Chickening really is. A parody? Maybe. A trailer?...

A parody? Maybe. A trailer? Possibly. An animation? Partially. A short film? Why not.

(Cineballs)

Canada / 5minutes

Guiding Sights

Rafael Egaña, 38, is going blind. He suffers RP (Retinitis Pigmentosa), a genetic degenerative retinal disease. With the iquiqueña...

Rafael Egaña is going blind and goes through the pics that his father has collected over the past 50 years. What happens with the images in your memory when you're going blind?

(Cusicanqui Films, Escuela de Cine y Televisión - Universidad de Chile)

Chile / 18minutes

Ghost

The grief process is a recurring theme throughout the history of cinema. Extremely subjective and universal at the same...

The ghost of a little girl wanders through a dark and spooky city as her parents mourn her passing.

(Self Produced)

Denmark / 8minutes

Online Preview: Houses with Small Windows

The online preview is expired, but you can still read the review and watch the trailer. In the Kurdish...

A powerful and yet muted portrait of an honour killing in the rural Kurdish Southeast of Turkey, "Best Film" at 021 Capalbio Cinema International Short Film Fest.

(Clin d’oeil Films)

Turkey / 15minutes

Don’t Forget My Words – by Riccardo Rabacchi

The short film by the Italian director Riccardo Rabacchi carries strong echoes of a Woody Allen’s movie. This comparison...

A young man with confused ideas finds himself in a weird theatre of the absurd

(Image Hunters, Dispàrte, Tropico del Libro)

Italia / 7minutes

Bora Bora – by Bogdan Mirică

The title of the first short film directed by Romanian helmer Bogdan Mirică can be misleading. The audience, watching the first...

The absurdity of life in one of the most drought-affected areas in Romania

(MediaPro Pictures)

Romania / 32minutes

Come Swim – by Kristen Stewart

There are a few things that I can’t stand. I’m not talking exclusively about wars, economy, politics and so...

The fallacies of nowadays, namely the short film written and directed by Kristen Stewart, best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga

(Refinery29, Scott Free Productions, Starlight Studios)

USA / 18minutes

Social Butterfly

It’s Chloè’s eighteenth birthday, and she’s celebrating it in a wonderful french countryside villa. It’s a “white party” (maybe...

An american woman enters into a teenage party in the South of France, changing the life of the birthday girl forever.

(Ad Astra Films)

USA / 14minutes

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