Scrambled – by Bastiaan Schravendeel

Can a Rubik’s Cube still be an intriguing game for millennials? It is probably the question that the animators...

The immortal charm of the Rubik's cube

(Polder Animation)

Netherlands / 7minutes

Harry Grows Up

Falling in Love is tough. And as your first love leaves you to go to College even the New...

New York is a tough place to find love. Especially for an 18-month-old living on his own.

(Abaloon Films)

USA / 12minutes

Split

The man (Austin Hayden) and the woman (Shian Denovan). He cheated on her, she left him. Pale and disheveled,...

A man suffers in a peculiar way after splitting up from his girlfriend: lies and guilt lead him through an extreme physical reaction…

(Shining Example Films)

UK / 17minutes

Shorts not to miss at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival

The 2015 Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week, and the shorts film program is comprised of 60 films...

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When Namibia Was a City…

Yusuf’s everyday life is dominated by a gorgeous and beloved routine. He wakes up in the morning and drinks...

Yusuf's everyday life is dominated by a gorgeous and beloved routine. A fishing trip could give him a chance to restore his image as the provider and head of family...

(24 Lies Per Second)

Germany / 23minutes

The Provider

It’s the 1940s, but we’re in  a dystopian, alternate reality where human survival is threatened. A man seeks refuge...

Black comedy, horror, dystopia and science fiction come together in Brianne Nord-Stewart's short.

(Random Acts Entertainment)

Canada / 8minutes

Project X – by Laura Poitras and Henrik Moltke

Not many people know that AT&T has installed NSA surveillance equipment in at least 5 of its Internet and...

From the director of Citizenfour, narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, a journey into NSA's NYC surveillance hub

(Field of Vision, The Intercept)

USA / 10minutes

Cannes 2016: Luca Tóth

At Cannes’ Critics Week, Luca Tóth premiered her second animated short Superbia, produced by Péter Benjámin Lukács with the score by Csaba Kalotás. Luca was...

Surreal, evocative, humorous: the 2D animated work of the Hungarian filmmaker

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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

Wolf Call – by Ramey Newell

Wolf Call is the new short film directed and produced by filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and graphic designer Ramey...

A short doc following the work done by wolf caretaker and award-winning photographer John Ramer

(Ramey Newell)

USA / 9minutes

Box

“Box” is a “demonstrative” shortfilm published by Bot & Dolly, a San Francisco-based production house specialized in robotics, automation and shooting...

The first world experiment of 3D mapping on 2D objects in motion achieved via remote control of two industrial robots and the combined use of different technologies.

(Bot & Dolly )

USA / 5minutes

The Cat Piano

A “feline” film noir with “beatnik” nuances: that would be the best way to describe The Cat Piano, an...

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

(The People's Republic Of Animation.)

Australia / 8minutes

OPEN CALL: WE ARE LOOKING FOR CONTRIBUTORS!

Join our team! Write about the best short films from around the world, help us finding the next filmmaking...

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Runaway – by Emily Buchanan, Susan Yung and Esther Parobek

In the Internet of Things era, loving a refrigerator will not be so weird. Probably it’ll be easy to...

The best time of the year to love your refrigerator

(Paper Planes)

USA / 4minutes

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

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

Malaria

Western, the quintessential film genre, has been reinterpreted in many ways throughout the history of cinema. Post-modern filmmakers such...

A classic Western story of death and revenge told with an innovative mix of stop motion techniques, in-camera effects and animation.

(Self-produced)

Brazil / 6minutes

Happiness – by Steve Cutts

Try to google the word Happiness, the first (sponsored) result of your search will be shophappiness.com. Happiness can be bought. This...

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

(Steve Cutts Art)

UK / 4minutes

Suspend Belief

An American actor with a questionable french accent, set to play a frenchman in a city that should be...

A meta-filmic rom-com suspended between reality and fiction.

(Self-produced)

UK / 6minutes

N U M B – by Anders Weberg

To film an absence may seem an unsolvable oxymoron. Similarly, using a camera just like a tool that is...

Appearance and disappearance: A touching tribute in memory of a son

(Self Produced)

Sweden / 1minutes

Player Two – by John Wikstrom

As so often in similar situations, all begins with a little and innocent question: can video games be a...

Can video games be a spiritual experience? The game will never be over

(Self Produced)

USA / 2minutes

Echo

“The sunken homeland; visiting a strange place, and the certainty that we are not alone. ECHO is about how...

People, animals and buildings create a visual echo in this surreal and atmospheric animation.

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Germany / 5minutes

Head over Heels

After many years of marriage, Walter and Madge have grown distant from each other, to the point that  they...

This Oscar-nominated animation is an heartwarming tale of a married couple whose lives have grown in opposite directions.

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UK / 10minutes

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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