War | Good Short Films

Limbus – by Michael Philipp

1918, the First World War is over, two soldiers can finally make their way home. They survived, but their...

In war, beside life, you lose first of all yourself

(Luxs)

Switzerland / 25minutes
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
The Arab Series #4: The Wind

The Wind is the stop-motion animated short directed by Teir el Akhdar collective, comprised of Lina Ghaibeh, May Ghaibeh,...

The Teir el Akhdar collective tells us Syria and the war through loss, displacement, and forced migration.

(Teir el Akhdar)

Syria / 4minutes
The Arab Series #3: War On Famous Canvas

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and the missiles in the sky over the border town of Yabroud, in the...

Syrian war scenes swarm the famous paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci, Salvador Dalí, Pieter Brueghel and Paul Gauguin

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Syria / 2minutes
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
Diary

Diary is a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made...

10 years of war reporting around the world in this moving and very powerful video-testament by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington.

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UK / 19minutes

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War (6)

Limbus – by Michael Philipp

In war, beside life, you lose first of all yourself

Chop My Money – by Theo Anthony

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

The Arab Series #4: The Wind

The Teir el Akhdar collective tells us Syria and the war through loss, displacement, and forced migration.

The Arab Series #3: War On Famous Canvas

Syrian war scenes swarm the famous paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci, Salvador Dalí, Pieter Brueghel and Paul Gauguin

World of Glory (Opening Scene)

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.

Diary

10 years of war reporting around the world in this moving and very powerful video-testament by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington.

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1500 Words – by Andrew Chaplin

What would you do if you went to the doctors and discovered that you only had 1500 words left to live?

Segundito – by Carlos & Roberto Valle

Stay still a second! A flash of genius by the brothers directors of The Chair of Life

Monsieur Cok

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

Panorama – by Gianluca Abbate

A polis stretches away over an infinite global space with no more uninhabited places nor frontiers

The surreal animations of Jan Švankmajer

As the Milano Film Festival hosts a retrospective on Jan Švankmajer, we take a look at the career of the great Czech director and animator.

Deathly – by Mike Williamson

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

Shorts not to miss at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival

Sunspring – by Oscar Sharp

A happy medium between technophobia and Skynet: A short film written by algorithm

Redesigning Christmas

What's Christmas like when your parents are both modernism-loving architects?

Requiem for Romance

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

FOCUS ON: Jack Dunphy

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

Diary

10 years of war reporting around the world in this moving and very powerful video-testament by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington.

The Rise Of The Fashion Short

From Wes Anderson to Spike Jonze, many directors are experimenting with the Fashion Film, a newborn genre in which everything is possible.

Guiding Sights

Rafael Egaña is going blind and goes through the pics that his father has collected over the past 50 years. What happens with the images in your memory when you're going blind?

Gaiwan – by Elia Mouatamid

A grave yard, two men: a parable on hope and death, which equates men beyond preconceptions

Wall

Laci is a young gypsy worker hired to build a wall: his first look beyond holds an unusual revelation...

Ormie – by Rob Silvestri

Ormie is a pig, in every sense of the word: see his attempts to gain the warm sweet taste that is his obsession

Interesting Ball

A red ball bounces around the city through five incredible stories, for eventually getting to the beach.

Mute

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

N U M B – by Anders Weberg

Appearance and disappearance: A touching tribute in memory of a son

Amigo

A delightful short film about friendship in 50s style, seen through the innocent eyes of a child.

Guida – by Rosana Urbes

Beauty of life is ageless.

Memorize

How to fight crime in an high-tech, action packed future? Through a chip that records our entire lives.

A Brief History of John Baldessari

Narrated by Tom Waits, a pop documentary about "The guy who put dots over people's faces".