Leonard in Slow Motion

The world is increasingly faster for everyone, but what happens when you live in slow-motion? A bathroom break might take...

Leonard moves in slow motion, but lives in a normally-paced world.

(Lawrence Lewis, Barbara Livolsi)

USA / 9minutes

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

Men Buy Sex – by Alice Russell

Men Buy Sex is the first documentary by Alice Russell and she chooses a quite delicate theme. She decided to...

A shortdoc about paid sex that will probaly trigger a very long discussion.

(Fat Rat Films)

UK / 8minutes

Let it rain

Shady characters , a dramatic tone, lots of suspense … the first scenes of Let it Rain set up...

A deadly shootout... with water weapons.

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Australia / 8minutes

Ennesimo Film Festival 2018, the Italian short film carnival

Welcome to Tile Valley: Ennesimo Film Festival 2018 is an illuminating example of cultural project management. From 4th to...

Welcome to Tile Valley: we went to the Ennesimo Film Festival in Fiorano Modenese and no, this is not "just another" festival report

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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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Wanderers

Wanderers is a short science fiction film created by Swedish digital artist Erik Wernquist which offers a glimpse of the...

A spectacular and scientifically based (pre)vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, commented by Carl Sagan's original voice.

(Self produced )

Sweden / 4minutes

Roadtrip USA

Mike Matas and his girlfriend Sharon Hwang (who also created the opening and closing titles) take us on a...

2 weeks, 3,000 miles, 5,000 photos in 3 minutes. A time-lapse journey across the USA.

(Self-produced)

USA / 3minutes

Adam and Eve Raised Cain – by Francesco Erba

Adam and Eve Raised Cain is a disturbing short film. Stop motion animation is usually functional to tell reassuring...

A poetic yet disturbing stop motion horror short film

(Onda Video Produzioni)

Italy / 20minutes

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

Skin

A smalltown somewhere in the U.S.A. Ben is a lonely child, quite different from the others. He has a...

A lonely child taxidermist makes friends with a girl who's fascinated by his hobby. But one day he does something that will change everything.

(Self-produced)

USA / 13minutes

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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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

Gaiwan – by Elia Mouatamid

A grave yard. Two men. Gaiwan is the traditional Chinese teaware. That’s what one of the two uses for...

A grave yard, two men: a parable on hope and death, which equates men beyond preconceptions

(Luna Film)

Italy / 4minutes

Runaway

“Runaway” is a delightful award-winning “student animated films” made by Huen Sin (Susan) Yung, Emily Buchanan and Esther Parobek...

A charming tale about a misunderstanding between a boy named Stanley and Chillie, his treasured 1950's refrigerator.

(Student Film)

USA / 4minutes

In Dreams

To make his graduate film from Northumbria University, British animator Samuel Blain decided to direct a documentary about ordinary...

An experimental documentary about people's dreams, that feels like a modern take on surrealism.

(Student film)

UK / 3minutes

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

Abe

Abe was programmed to love. Until recently, he had a family: he was living with them, cooking, helping them...

What if a robot that was programmed to love stops being loved by those around him?

(Zero-G Productions)

UK / 9minutes

Ududeagu

Before there were kings, there was a spider – life and death intertwine in Ududeagu, the intimate and mystery...

Before there were kings, there was a spider: language and body as habitat in a dark and mystery mutant experiment

(Akwaeke Emezi)

Nigeria / 2minutes

Funnel

Andre Hyland, the author of this surreal short, is what in Italy we’d lovingly call an “adorable dick”, which...

His car has broken down, a guy spend a whole day on the phone while looking for a funnel.

(Self-produced)

USA / 7minutes

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

The Sand Storm

There are many interesting facts about The Sand Storm. First of all, the protagonist is Ai Weiwei, one of...

A sci-fi dystopian tale set in Beijing during a water shortage. Starring Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, the short led to some controversies during its development.

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China / USA / 10minutes

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