Double King – by Felix Colgrave

Centuries ago there lived… “A king!” my little readers will say immediately. Yes. It’s right! In this time the...

An animated short film about love... and regicide

(Self-produced)

Australia / 10minutes

Split

The man (Austin Hayden) and the woman (Shian Denovan). He cheated on her, she left him. Pale and disheveled,...

A man suffers in a peculiar way after splitting up from his girlfriend: lies and guilt lead him through an extreme physical reaction…

(Shining Example Films)

UK / 17minutes

Lost Property

In a Lost & Found office an old man is working behind his desk. Every day an old lady enters...

When you lose something dear to your heart, there is only one place it can be found. The Lost Property office.

(Produced by Tom Mortimer)

UK / minutes

FOCUS ON: Fisnik Maxhuni

Fisnik Maxhuni won with his first short film Lost Exile the ‘Cinema & Gioventù’ Jury Prize at Locarno Film...

Interview with the director of Lost Exile, awarded at Locarno Film Festival

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Sara – by Rossella Inglese

Sara’s just 12 years old when she is confronted with discovering the experience of become a woman. Escorted into...

Sara's just 12 years old when she is confronted with discovering the experience of become a woman

(Fedra Film)

Italy / 6minutes

Wind

A distant land where the entire social system is based on the power of the wind. Strong and relentless,...

The everyday activities of the inhabitants of an extremely windy area are hard. But what if the wind stopped blowing?

(HAW Hamburg Department Design)

Germany / 4minutes

Analogue People in a Digital Age

It is the day of the analogue to digital switchover of television transmission. Conversations about life, death and quantum...

As the analogue age draws to a close, eight men sit in an Irish bar and battle to remain relevant in the digital world.

(Twopair Films)

Ireland / 13minutes

Fear of Flying

It looks like Stop-Motion, but it isn’t.  Combining puppetry and 2D and 3D animation, director Conor Finnegan has created...

It's time to migrate south, but Dougal is afraid of flying. The tragicomic adventure of a bird and its phobias.

(Brunella Cocchiglia)

Ireland / 9minutes

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

FOCUS ON: Alberto Guerra and Massimiliano Nicolè

The perfect set for this interview would have been a bar with wooden interiors, half-light, three cocktails dripping condensation and even cigars. What...

Interview with the authors of the short web series 'Have you seen Tom Collins?,' winner at the Rome Web Awards

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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

Bite of the Tail

Four people desperately looking for an answer. Bite of the Tail revolves around the daily difficulties of a wife,...

Four characters struggling to find an elusive truth, and a snake that creeps inside their everyday lives.

(Self produced )

USA / 9minutes

Mute

In a world where people are born without a mouth, everyone is very frustrated and unhappy. The all want...

In a world where people are born without a mouth, a gory accident leads to a discovery that will change their lives forever.

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Netherlands / 4minutes

Online Preview: Houses with Small Windows

The online preview is expired, but you can still read the review and watch the trailer. In the Kurdish...

A powerful and yet muted portrait of an honour killing in the rural Kurdish Southeast of Turkey, "Best Film" at 021 Capalbio Cinema International Short Film Fest.

(Clin d’oeil Films)

Turkey / 15minutes

The Cat Piano

A “feline” film noir with “beatnik” nuances: that would be the best way to describe The Cat Piano, an...

A noir animation, set in the jazz feline underworld, narrated by Nick Cave's charming and mysterious voice.

(The People's Republic Of Animation.)

Australia / 8minutes

Sniffer

In a not so distant future, not much has changed… except for the force of gravity. For some reason,...

In a not so distant future, the absence of gravity complicates the everyday life, but for true dreamers it could also be a way to escape it all.

(Dream Factory)

Norway / 10minutes

Quine – by M. Remaury, W. Laboury

As it often occurs, a question stimulates an author to create a work of art in order to answere that...

At the lottery, what's the point of filling the grid when you miss number one ?

(Self Produced)

France / 2minutes

Box

“Box” is a “demonstrative” shortfilm published by Bot & Dolly, a San Francisco-based production house specialized in robotics, automation and shooting...

The first world experiment of 3D mapping on 2D objects in motion achieved via remote control of two industrial robots and the combined use of different technologies.

(Bot & Dolly )

USA / 5minutes

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

Expo

Blending together science fiction and melodrama, Joe Sill‘s Expo is a short that combines a great visual impact to...

Science fiction and melodrama come together in this story of loss, loneliness and survival.

(Everdream Pictures )

USA / 13minutes

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

When Namibia Was a City…

Yusuf’s everyday life is dominated by a gorgeous and beloved routine. He wakes up in the morning and drinks...

Yusuf's everyday life is dominated by a gorgeous and beloved routine. A fishing trip could give him a chance to restore his image as the provider and head of family...

(24 Lies Per Second)

Germany / 23minutes

The Life & Death of an iPhone

Needless to deny: most of us live attached to the phone. A form of technological autism entirely contemporary, that even...

Life, death, and reincarnation of an iPhone from its point-of-view. An original perspective on our relatoinship with technology.

(Project Fathom)

USA / 7minutes

Online Preview: Newton’s First Law

“When viewed in an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant...

Physics applied to life and a last chance to take, because it is never too late to find love.

(CSC)

Italy / 20minutes