The Joke’s on You – by Katie Smith

The Joke’s on You is a refreshing British comedy, winner as Best Short Comedy of 2016 at ECAFF Eddie Comedy...

A refreshing British comedy, a modern and real love story

(Victoria Muldoon)

UK / 11minutes

Steadfast Stanley – by John Cody Kim

I believe that ugliness and beauty, rather than being two sides of the same coin, are two good neighbours which...

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." And sometimes they save it...

(CalArts)

USA / 4minutes

Black Metal – by Kat Candler

When metal is linked with crime. The West Memphis Three — Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley —...

The lead singer of a black metal band dealing with guilt and sorrow: if an artist's work is used for unintended purposes, is the artist partially responsible?

(Candler Productions)

USA / 8minutes

We Will Live Again

We Will Live Again is a mesmerising shortdoc following Cryonics Institut’s CEO Ben Best and Andy Zawacki, the caretakers of 99...

Stripped of their blood, filled with antifreeze liquid, and frozen: a looks inside the unusual and extraordinary operations of the Cryonics Institute.

(Brooklyn Underground Films)

USA / 12minutes

Godard’s Message

A pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, Jean- Luc Godard had a huge influence on modern cinema,  givig it a...

"Khan Khanne": Jean-Luc Godard's videoletter to Cannes' president Gilles Jacob: a testament for tomorrow's cinema.

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Goat Witch

Weird things happen in the woods of Georgia. For example, coming across the occult universe of James Sizemore and...

From the creators of 'The Demon's Rook' comes Emelin & Gloria's ancient ritual: witches, demons, and deities during a full lunar eclipse…

(Black Rider Productions)

USA / 14minutes

The Saddest Boy in the World

Timothy Higgins recalls his entire life on the day of his ninth birthday. He’s constantly thinking about suicide. Written and...

The birthday party of the saddest boy in the world.

(Modern Family Productions
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Canada / 14minutes

Supermarket – by Gianluca Abbate

“I’d like you to make yourself at home, wipe all thoughts from your mind…”: thus begins Supermarket, the second...

An invitation to make you fall asleep goes with us while a chaotic landscape sets up on the screen...

(Gianluca Abbate)

Italy / 8minutes

Room 8

A new prisoner has just arrived in his cell in a macabre Russian jail. He’s attempting to settle in...

A mysterious box turns the life of an inmate into a dead end hallucinatory trip.

(Independent Films)

UK / 6minutes

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

Cannes Court Métrage 2019: The Short Films Selection

The 72nd Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup of Cannes Court Métrage 2019. The programme features 11 short...

A look at the 11 short films competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or and the 17 films from the Cinéfondation

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Cut Off

A mysterious briefcase, a gun, handcuffs. A sudden phone call. We see a man, presumably a spy or a...

When fiction starts to blend with reality, a novelist must act quickly - his life may depend on it!

(Intellectual Propaganda)

USA / 8minutes

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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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

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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Memory by Design

This refined exercise in style will help us reflect on our obsession of recording and capturing moments of our...

An innovative exercise in style about the preservation of memories.

(The incomplete recordings )

USA / 5minutes

Agua Viva – by Alexa Lim Haas

Winner of SXSW Best Animation Short in 2018, Alexa Lim Haas’ animation Agua Viva is a poetic animation about...

A short animation about feelings that no language can describe.

(Borscht Corporation)

USA / 6minutes

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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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

Record/Play

A man cries while listening an old tape, we hear the voice of a woman talking about how she...

War, time travel and a broken walkman are the backdrop to this science-fiction love story

(Collaboration Factory)

USA / 11minutes

Coach Nison – by Charlie Hoxie

Coach Nison by Charlie Hoxie is part of Frameworks, a series of in-depth documentary shorts examining extraordinary New York...

A table tennis champion from Tajikistan opens a club in Brooklyn where he trains the next generation of talent

(BRIC TV)

USA / 14minutes

Eggplant

Durian is a boy born with a rare defect, his reactions to life situations are opposite to those of...

The tale of a boy whose facial expressions display the opposite of what he’s feeling.

(Student Film (UCLA))

Usa / 7minutes

Monsieur Cok

Monsieur Cok is the owner of a large bomb factory. In times of war,  hedecides to increase production to...

In times of war, a ruthless yet childish factory owner decides to replace all his workers with robots. A riot ensues.

(Papy3D)

France / 10minutes

Thunder Road – by Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings is probably a man of few words. Or a communication genius. The official synopsis for Thunder Road states:...

Officer Arnaud loved his mom... The 2016 Sundance short winner

(Unison LA)

USA / 13minutes