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

James

Presented at Sundance, and awarded in many international festivals, James is kind of a fragment of a coming-of-age tale,...

The lonely coming of age of a Northern Ireland's boy on his path towards self-discovery.

(Student Film)

Northern Ireland / 18minutes

021 Capalbio | GSF’s Exclusive Showcase

Up On The Roof Festival’s section: International Competition Directed by: Nour wazzi
Produced by: Panacea Production Ltd.
Country: UK
Year: 2013 Synopsis:
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Watch a selection of some of the the best shorts from the various sections of the 021 Capalbio Cinema International Short Film Fest until August 31st.

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A Pale Blue Dot

Many of the problems that plague our small terrestrial existences can be often “solved” with a change of perspective,...

An uplifting animation with commentary by Carl Sagan, offers us an unexpected perspective of our earthly existence.

(Student Film (Sheridan College))

Canada / 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

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

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

Clermont-Ferrand 2017 Kicks Off: A Selection Of 6 Short Films Online Via Click For Flicks

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival is the largest and most influential short film festival in the world. For its...

The 39th edition opens with Click for Flicks, a selection of 6 short films to watch online for free

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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

World of Glory (Opening Scene)

(by Adam Nayman via Reverse Shot)  Note: Roy Andersson’s World of Glory is avaiable online without permission. It is officially avaiable on...

A plain, ordinary man tells us about his work as a real-estate broker, his dead father, his ordinary home and so on in a naturalistic voice, lacking any emotions.

(Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet, Studio 24)

Swden / 14minutes

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

Online Premiere: The Show MAS Go On

What is MAS? Let’s explain it to non-roman citizens. It is a legendary shop in Rome, nearby Piazza Vittorio, in...

Artist Rä di Martino celebrates MAS , the Roman famed "department stores of the people", with a art-doc poised between fiction and reality.

(Produzione Illuminati / Think Cattleya / Federica Maria Bianchi (Snaporazverein))

Italian / 30minutes

Father – by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso

Argentina, 1983. The dictatorship just passed and the horror, by now invisible, finds a place in the inside, in...

The flow of daily life in the shadow of dictatorship

(OpusBou)

France, Argentina / 12minutes

30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone)

First shown at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, this original documentary is a collaborative effort from artist Anne Cady,...

Oil-painted animation brings to life the stories of three powerful women in postconflict Sierra Leone.

(Real World Film)

UK / 8minutes

Crowfunding: Candice by George Watson

George Watson is an award winning director who began his career in documentaries before switching into fiction. He was...

Turn the Slate Productions has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the new short by 'Twelve' director

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Duku Spacemarines

La Mécanique du Plastique  is a French creative collective founded in 2011. Thanks to the combination of the very...

An incredible adventure of underground fights, angry hackers and alien invasions.

(La Mécanique du Plastique )

France / 4minutes

Jonah

Kibwe Tavares is one of  UK’s most exciting young directors. An achitecture grad with a lifelong love of cinema,...

A tale full of surprises and special effects narrates the destructive consequences of fame and wealth in the life of a boy from Zanzibar.

(BFI Film Fund)

UK / 18minutes

Motorville

The map of America comes to life and starts wandering around looking for oil reserves, long extinguished from the...

The United States of America come to life in the search of the lost oil.

(Self-produced)

USA / 3minutes

FOCUS ON: Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings, writer of Thunder Road and director of Thunder Road, is also the main actor in  Thunder Road. His short film, Thunder...

Interview with the director of Thunder Road, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival

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Chop My Money – by Theo Anthony

Patient, the protagonist of Chop My Money, short doc directed by Theo Anthony, lives in Goma, Congo. In Congo there...

This world is not the world: a day in the life of three street kids in the Eastern Congo

(Theo Anthony Productions, LLC)

USA / 13minutes

Crowfunding: “Lindiota” – by Chiara Livia Arrigo

Chiara Livia Arrigo is a young Milanese director of Sicilian origin, who lives and works in Rome. She launched...

Life and memory of a lonly anti-hero from Lindos, between rotoscope and live footage.

(Ring Film (promo) )

Italian / 2minutes

The Walrus

“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together,” so John Lennon...

The Walrus is feeling depressed. He has everything, but feels something is missing in his life... Are you Walrus?

(Luke Randall)

USA / 7minutes

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

Calcio Storico (Historic Football)

Blood, dust and broken bones. Every year, between the second and the third week of June, four teams face off...

No rules, only one ball and two narrow slits where to throw it in: it's the "calcio storico fiorentino", forerunner of the modern soccer.

(Narratively)

Spain / 9minutes