Echo

“The sunken homeland; visiting a strange place, and the certainty that we are not alone. ECHO is about how...

People, animals and buildings create a visual echo in this surreal and atmospheric animation.

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Germany / 5minutes

A Morning Stroll – by Grant Orchard

One day, during a morning walk, a man meets a chicken. The chicken turns the corner, it mounts the stairs of a flat,...

A New Yorker and a chicken: an exercise in style by Grant Orchard

(Studio AKA)

UK / 7minutes

Floor 9.5 – by Toby Meakins

It’s midnight and the young office worker in a big company gets on the elevator to go home. Shift’s...

Are we really willing to help those who ask us for help? A Kafkaesque horror about modern working life

(Fox Digital Studios)

USA / 2minutes

Crowfunding: “Lindiota” – by Chiara Livia Arrigo

Chiara Livia Arrigo is a young Milanese director of Sicilian origin, who lives and works in Rome. She launched...

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

(Ring Film (promo) )

Italian / 2minutes

The Arab Series #1: Noor

Ramadan is coming and 13 year-old Fingo has one wish — he wants to hang lights on his apartment...

For the celebration of the upcoming Ramadan, Fingo has one wish: to decorate with colored lights the building he lives in.

(Self-produced)

Egypt / 15minutes

Skin

A smalltown somewhere in the U.S.A. Ben is a lonely child, quite different from the others. He has a...

A lonely child taxidermist makes friends with a girl who's fascinated by his hobby. But one day he does something that will change everything.

(Self-produced)

USA / 13minutes

Clermont-Ferrand 2017 Kicks Off: A Selection Of 6 Short Films Online Via Click For Flicks

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival is the largest and most influential short film festival in the world. For its...

The 39th edition opens with Click for Flicks, a selection of 6 short films to watch online for free

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Where We Are

This beautiful, delicate and poignant short could be some kind of  “long-distance relationships’ manifesto”, a pretty common way of...

Separation, distance and memory: the essence of love in 85 seconds.

(Self-produced)

USA / 1minutes

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

Come Swim – by Kristen Stewart

There are a few things that I can’t stand. I’m not talking exclusively about wars, economy, politics and so...

The fallacies of nowadays, namely the short film written and directed by Kristen Stewart, best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga

(Refinery29, Scott Free Productions, Starlight Studios)

USA / 18minutes

Bismillah by Alessandro Grande: Winner of the David di Donatello Award 2018 for Best Short Film

Bismillah by Alessandro Grande is the winner of the David di Donatello Award 2018 for Best Short Film. Tender...

Exclusive interview with the director winner of the most important Italian prize

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The People’s Network Showcase: A New Generation of Short Films Directors

The People’s Network Showcase is the new project launched by El Rey, the Latino channel created by Robert Rodriguez...

The channel created by Robert Rodriguez launches a new User Generated short films series

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Hyper-Reality – by Keiichi Matsuda

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that technology plays an important role in our lives. A couple of weeks...

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

(Fractal)

UK / 6minutes

Citizen versus Kane

An independent filmmaker’s ambitious project of  remaking Citizen Kane in a modern-day setting has finally took off. As it...

When death arrives on the set of a low-budget "Citizen Kane" remake, what's there to do to save the production?

(Premiere Heure)

France / 18minutes

Autobiographical Scene Number 6882

(from Jeffrey Bowers via Vice)  A group of friends are walking across a bridge, discussing the finer aspects of alcohol, when they begin...

A group of friends watches as one of them attempts to jump into the water from a bridge.

(Plattform Produktion)

Sweden / 9minutes

Malatesta Short Film Festival Unveils Its First Edition Line-Up

Three days of screenings, premieres and Q&As with directors dedicated to short films: the first edition of Malatesta Short...

Find out these 10 shorts you can watch online from the MalatestaShort official selection

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Belly

Ever shifting between tender and darker tones, this little coming-of-age tale draws us into a surreal fantasy world that’s...

A coming of age tale about brotherhood, friendship and separation.

(Royal College of Art )

UK / 8minutes

The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey Danger

The Viewfinder List is an entertainment industry survey which polls studio executives, producers and creatives for their top 10...

The adventurous love story of a young couple escaping dinosaurs through spaceships and submarines.

(Student film (NYU))

USA / 9minutes

Berlin, Berlin

Berlin, Berlin is the poignant “visual poem” by young American director of Salvadoran origin Nehemias Colindres dedicated to the dynamic...

More than just a city, a category of the mind: the passionate ode to Berlin by Nehemias Colindres.

(Betti Berlin)

Germany / 2minutes

Afronauts and Zambia’s Space Program

It’s the 60s: the world is divided by the Cold War, and the USA are in the midst of...

A short presented at the Berlinale and a photographic book narrate the incredible space-adventure of an african dreamer in the 60s.

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PLUG

David Levy is one of the most important art directors around, and his curriculum includes films like Prometheus and...

The only survivor in a post-apocalyptic world is constantly looking for other forms of human life and answers to her questions.

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USA / 16minutes

The Sand Storm

There are many interesting facts about The Sand Storm. First of all, the protagonist is Ai Weiwei, one of...

A sci-fi dystopian tale set in Beijing during a water shortage. Starring Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, the short led to some controversies during its development.

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China / USA / 10minutes

“My Self”: the intimate diary of Jennifer Medina

Jennifer Medina is a Venezuelan photographer and video maker, based in New York City. Her works sweetly look at...

The selfie generation seen by the young Venezuelan artist's eyes.

(Self produced)

USA / 1minutes

Otherhalf – by Ben West

Otherhalf is described by the authors as a comedy about a man who decides to “break up” with himself. The...

A literal conflict with themselves, by Framestore

(Framestore)

USA / 10minutes