10 Animated Shorts That Made the Oscars 2017 Shortlist

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 semifinalists for this year’s animated short Oscar...

The Academy has announced the 10 semifinalists for this year's animated short Oscar race

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Fugu & Tako

Recently we wrote a short guide on how to gain success on the web with a short film for...

The friendship between two Japanese white collar men changes as one of them turns into a puffer fish inside a sushi bar.

(Produced by Wendy Green)

USA / 8minutes

La Huida – The Runaway

Helvetica , pastel colors , a voice-over that directly addresses the viewers,  eccentric characters and catchy music … at...

The colorful deconstruction of a moment in the life of a group of bizarre characters.

(Escandalo Films )

Spain / 11minutes

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

Sorry We Don’t Help Darkies

A Caribbean family is under attack during the London race riots. We’re in England, in 1958, and racial hatred...

A tragic episode of racism in 50s London.

(TBone Productions)

UK / 10minutes

FOCUS ON: William Laboury

William Laboury studied History of Art and editing. His body of work consists mostly in found footage films. His self-portrait...

Memory as an archive of images in the works of the young French director and graphic designer.

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Memories of Papé, the short film by Nicolas Polixene

Memories of Papé Diary of my short film. The beginning My name is Nicolas Polixene and I’m 33 years old. Native...

The private diary by French director of Martinique descent

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Online Premiere: Thriller

With the city of Taranto bent by pollution and uncertainty for the future in the background, Michael, 14, goes around...

Michele dreams to dance in TV like his idol Michael Jackson, but the protest in which his father is involved threatens his dream.

(Basiliciak)

Italian / 14minutes

The Italian short film (potential) industry.

Is there an Italian “short film industry”? Is there an economy linked to short film sector at all? These are...

The "Report 2014" of the Italian Short Film Centre sheds a light on an key-sector of the audiovisual that struggles to define itself "industrial".

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Double King – by Felix Colgrave

Centuries ago there lived… “A king!” my little readers will say immediately. Yes. It’s right! In this time the...

An animated short film about love... and regicide

(Self-produced)

Australia / 10minutes

The Life & Death of an iPhone

Needless to deny: most of us live attached to the phone. A form of technological autism entirely contemporary, that even...

Life, death, and reincarnation of an iPhone from its point-of-view. An original perspective on our relatoinship with technology.

(Project Fathom)

USA / 7minutes

Lights Out – by David F. Sandberg

In 2013 the UK based production company Bloody Cuts launched a competition for the best horror short film, with a...

"Per aspera ad astra": from indie to major.

(Ponysmasher)

Sweden / 3minutes

“My Self”: the intimate diary of Jennifer Medina

Jennifer Medina is a Venezuelan photographer and video maker, based in New York City. Her works sweetly look at...

The selfie generation seen by the young Venezuelan artist's eyes.

(Self produced)

USA / 1minutes

Behind The Scene

One of the most distinctive signs of authorship, turned into an art by directors such as Antonioni, Scorsese and...

An ironic look at the backstage of an hypothetical commercial.

(Self-produced)

USA / 10minutes

Ouro – by Pierre-Jean Le Moël & Eva Jiahui Gao

Ouro is an animated short film directed by Pierre-Jean Le Moël and Eva Jiahui Gao, who are both in Masters Degree programs at...

A fairytale in action about vengeance, Ouroboros, and the power of women

(ECV Bordeaux)

Francia / 4minutes

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

The Optimist

The Optimist is a debut short film made by young and talented John Mervin, an eighteen year old boy...

A young book lover tries desperately to get the book everyone else has.

(A Chocolate Thunder Production)

USA / 4minutes

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

Hyper-Reality – by Keiichi Matsuda

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that technology plays an important role in our lives. A couple of weeks...

The Anglo-Japanese director describes a daily world dominated by technology

(Fractal)

UK / 6minutes

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

Caveirão

São Paulo do Brasil, night time. It’s 3:33 am and the time stops. We are in a deserted area...

Every night, time stops for a moment in Sao Paolo, and ghosts and mosters of all kinds dance and play music on the city's deserted streets.

(Hornet)

Brazil / 10minutes

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

97% – by Ben Brand

97% is a short written and directed by the young Dutch director Ben Brand, that explores our emotional dependency on...

Bert's race against time to find the match of his life among the subway cars.

(Caviar)

Netherlands / 8minutes

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