Borrowed Time – by Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj

Animated short film and drama. We are not used to associate this genre to poignant and dark tales, but watching Borrowed...

American animation comes out of its comfort zone and tells the drama

(Quorum Films)

USA / 7minutes

Sundance 2018: 4 Online Shorts You Can Watch Now

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday Jan. 18. This year, approximately 200 feature-length and short films were...

Let's dispel the myth that "if you post your short online, you are blown for A-list festivals"

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Sunday – by Patrick Doyon

It’s a cold Sunday in wintertime. Sunday immediately brings us back to our childhood and, for a moment, we really...

An animation that brings the unexpected in an ordinary family lunch

(National Film Board of Canada)

Canada / 10minutes

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

Cortisonici 2019: What A Hell Of A Festival

Cortisonici 2019 is a hell of a festival. This is how the artistic direction of the event presents its...

On the occasion of the 16th edition (Varese, April 9-13), we propose the best short films of the previous editions

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Offline Dating

Are we still able to approach a person without the use of internet? This is the question British director Samuel...

A 'single' guy challenges himself to find a his next date without the help of the internet.

(Joshua Smith & Samuel Abrahams )

UK / 6minutes

Fighting the Ebola Outbreak, Street by Street.

An ambulance with blaring sirens runs through the crowded streets of Monrovia, capital of Liberia, one of regions mostly...

The New York Times' shortdoc on Ebola's outbreak in Liberia, redefines the boundaries between news and narrative.

(New York Times)

USA / 7minutes

He Took His Skin Off For Me

Basato sul racconto breve di Maria Hummer dallo stesso nome (che può essere ‘ascoltato’ qui, recitato dalla stessa autrice),...

(Student Film)

UK / 11minutes

Berliner

“Friendliness”: this is the word that, according to young Turkish director Elif Kalkan, best describes Berlin. And it is...

An ode with elegiac tones that celebrates the German capital through the faces of its inhabitants and the intimacy of their homes.

(Bahçeşehir Üniversites )

Turkey / 2minutes

Online Premiere: Who’s Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? – by Janez Lapajne

Janez Lapajne is a Slovenian independent filmmaker and former (first) president of the Directors Guild of Slovenia. Born in...

A multicultural triangle in the occupied Europe of 1944: a sensual and emotional Alpine story of two tunes and one whistle

(Triglav Film)

Slovenia / 25minutes

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

The Cosmic Dope – A Plant Experience – by CLEMENTE

The Cosmic Dope – A Plant Experience by the Brazilian director CLEMENTE, born in San Paolo, is presented as...

The experimentation of the effects of a new and unknown species of orchid: an impeccable style exercise

(Paranoid)

Brazil / 5minutes

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

Deathly – by Mike Williamson

Mike Williamson is a weird and curious guy. He fronts the rock band JR Juggernaut and curates the monthly...

And now, I'll love you to death...

(Blacklight Pictures)

USA / 14minutes

The Herd

The story starts in a lurid clinic, where women are held in captivity. They are forced to live inside...

Know what you are consuming...

(Eat Your Heart Out Films)

UK / 20minutes

Conventional

Mostly known as Amy Pond in “Doctor Who” or the Nebula of “The Guardians of the Galaxy”, Scottish actress Karen...

A horror film actress deals with her fall from stardom and learn the true nature of the genre.

(FunSize Horror)

UK / 9minutes

Dylan

Dylan is an experimental documentary-film written and directed by New York director Elisabetta Rohrbaugh based on an interview with Dylan...

A young transgender tells us his story on his early morning journey to Conney Island.

(Outer Borough Pictures)

USA / 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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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

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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Dealer

In late December 2013 the elusive British musician William Bevan, aka Burial, published an unannounced EP, The Rival Dealer....

A nocturne crime story inspired by and set to Burial's Rival Dealer.

(The Sweetshop)

UK / 11minutes

Ulysse – by H. B. Meyrant, M. Chabannes, A. Labadie, C. Theuillon

Is it possible to rewrite a stroy that has been told for more than 2000 years? Absolutely, according to...

Through digital animation a modern Ulysses brings us in his oniric trip caused by the catching gaze of a strange mermaid.

(Supinfocom Arles (MOPA))

Francia / 9minutes

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

A girl named Elastika

Is it possible to tell a funny and intriguing story only using an elastic band and some pins? Guillame...

A simple yet very creative stop-motion short about a girl made of rubber bands traveling on a pinboard.

(Self-produced)

Canada / 4minutes