All Flowers in Time

A creepy old man, two frightened teenagers, a child and a girl that play a game of making scary...

Chloè Sevigny stars in a surreal story about possession and scary faces.

(Phi Centre)

USA / 14minutes

Requiem for Romance

A couple’s break-up call in voice-over. The images show us a man and a woman fighting, dabbing each other...

Shortlisted for the 2014 Academy Awards Best Animated short category, a story of kung-fu and forbidden love inspired by Shanghai's past.

(Self-produced)

Canada / 7minutes

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

Box Room – by Michael Lathrop

Jerry lives with his young mother, who is too busy enjoing her life rather than going after an introvert...

Thanks God, there is Mom!

(Lester Money Productions)

USA / Ireland / 15minutes

The Missing Scarf

One morning, Albert the squirrel wakes up and realizes that his beloved scarf is gone. This unpleasant discovery leads...

An apparent children's story turns out to be a philosophical reflection on overcoming a loss, through existentialism, nihilism and minimal graphics.

(Creative Belly Ltd.)

Ireland / 7minutes

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

Similo

2065. The entire planet is facing the climate change aftermath. One of the few habitable places left is Antarctica,...

A sci-fi romance set in a dystopian future questions about artificial love and the future of humanity. (NSFW)

(Blackmeal)

Spain / 22minutes

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

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

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

Why we believe in shorts

The New Yorker has recently published a long article Does the Cinema Need Short Films? by Richard Brody, the magazine’s film critic,...

A recent New Yorker article highlights the renewed interest for the short film art and its importance contemporary's cinema.

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Online Premiere: Dulce Dolor (The Sweetest Blow)

 Stories are often born from a single visual epiphany, a suspended moment of astonishment where you can catch the sense...

Crossing the ambiguity of happiness and desire, a human Piñata discovers what is her true nature.

(La Gran Royal, Juan Sarquis, Gabriel Stavenhagen)

Mexico / 14minutes

Googly Eyes – by Simon Savelyev

Gary, a recently dumped Los Angeles slacker, is nursing a mysterious and chronic earache stirring up memories of his...

A short and cynical rom-com to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the best way

(KQED Film School Shorts)

USA / 13minutes

Don’t Forget My Words – by Riccardo Rabacchi

The short film by the Italian director Riccardo Rabacchi carries strong echoes of a Woody Allen’s movie. This comparison...

A young man with confused ideas finds himself in a weird theatre of the absurd

(Image Hunters, Dispàrte, Tropico del Libro)

Italia / 7minutes

FOCUS ON: Jack Dunphy

Jack Dunphy mixes love and humour, cutout paper characters and death. Serenity is a profound story made of simple elements. Serenity was...

Love, death and icecream for breakfast: small talk with the Brooklyn-based filmmaker

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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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God View

We follow Philip’s meanders around Hackney, East London from an high point in the sky. As he keeps on...

From an unusual poit-of-view, a man enacts the devastating effects of mental illness.

(Self Produced)

UK / 7minutes

Online Preview: Cargo

The online preview is expired, but you can still read the review and watch the clip. Cargo is the...

A history of exploitation and redemption at the gates of Rome, which subverts the canonical relation victim-perpetrator.

(Kino Produzioni)

Italian / 16minutes

FOCUS ON: Alessandro Capitani

Bellissima is this year’s winner of the David di Donatello Award for the best short film, written and directed...

Our interview with the director of "Bellissima", the David di Donatello 2016 winning short film.

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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

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

I’m a Mitzvah

“Mitzvah” is an Hebrew term that means “commandment.” In its secondary meaning, however,  it also refers to all those charitable...

The bittersweet adventure of a young American man who spends one last night with his deceased friend while stranded in rural Mexico.

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USA / 18minutes

FOCUS ON: Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari

The Silence, the latest short film by Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari, premiered in the Short Film Official Competition at...

Interview with the directors behind "The Silence," the Italian entry in Competition at Cannes 2016

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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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