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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James

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

Ududeagu

Before there were kings, there was a spider: language and body as habitat in a dark and mystery mutant experiment

We Will Live Again

Stripped of their blood, filled with antifreeze liquid, and frozen: a looks inside the unusual and extraordinary operations of the Cryonics Institute.

Malaria

A classic Western story of death and revenge told with an innovative mix of stop motion techniques, in-camera effects and animation.

Modern Life is Rubbish

A recently broken-up couple separating their music collection leads the way for a dissertation on love, loss and the inherent evil of greatest hits albums.

Redesigning Christmas

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

Hyper-Reality – by Keiichi Matsuda

The Anglo-Japanese director describes a daily world dominated by technology

Wrinkles of the City: Focus On Guillaume Cagniard

Interview with Guillaume Cagnaird and his short about the work of artist JR

Oscars 2018: The 10 Animated Shorts Finalists

Here are the magnificent ten finalists for this year’s Academy Awards: What is new is that 5 of these are available online

Henna Night

Love and death, tradition and diversity clash against each other in this intense short by Sally El Hosaini.

How to Act on Reality TV – by John Wilson

The meta-movie that opens us the doors of the New York Reality TV School: not acting but real

Sleepwalk

The presage of the end is consumed in front of our eyes, but there is still time for a last love gesture.

The Optimist

A young book lover tries desperately to get the book everyone else has.

021 Capalbio Cinema International Shortfilm Fest

The historic Maremman festival opens its 21th edition with an entirely renewed formula in the name of Re/Generation.

FOCUS ON: Jack Dunphy

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

Phantom Limb

In the aftermath of a terrible incident, a young couple has to deal with phantom pains.

Behind

A regression therapy session diving a girl deeply into her distant memories turns into the materialization of cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth…

The Arab Series #4: The Wind

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

Junkyard

A man is stabbed in the subway. In the last seconds before he dies, a teenage friendship flashes before his eyes.

FOCUS ON: Fisnik Maxhuni

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

Crowfunding: “Lindiota” – by Chiara Livia Arrigo

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

Online Premiere: I Navigli

Life and feelings of two rowers training in the placid waters of the historic canals in Milan.

Rise – by David Karlak

A justified revolt of the machines.

Cutaway

Through close up details of hands, we follow the life of a single young man as he works, pursues relationships, and comes to terms with a life changing event.