Jaffa – by Jay Branagan

Between thirty and forty years, for many people life takes a common turn: marriage, sons, a stable job and...

Many couples want a child, but what happens when a child does not arrive because of his sperm?

(Plain Sailing Films)

Ireland / 12minutes

Three Fitted Flies – by Sois de Traca

Three Fitted Flies (Tres moscas a medida) is a 2D animated short film directed by the Spanish directors María Álvarez and Elisa Morais. Sois...

Bereavement between faith and superstition: the amazing 2D animation by the Spanish collective

(Sois de Traca)

Spain / 8minutes

Jimmy Page: An Animated Short Film Chronicles The Story Behind Led Zeppelin Guitar

Jimmy Page without his Fender Telecaster is like Thor without his hammer Mjöllnir. The history of this magical instrument...

The 1959 Fender Telecaster was a gift from Jeff Beck and now Page shares the psychedelic story of that instrument

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Redesigning Christmas

Architects love Christmas. There’s a very simple reason for that: it is’s such a poorly designed holiday, and each...

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

(National Film Board of Canada )

Canada / 2minutes

Like – by Garrett Bradley

Social media are the most effective digital advertising channel for driving impressions, clicks, and conversions. An online economy has...

A glimpse into the "click-farms" of Bangladesh, where workers are paid to "like" Facebook pages

(Field of Vision)

USA / 10minutes

Random Stop

A quiet day in the life of a county police officer. One routine stope, a phone call with his...

A gripping first person POV reenactment of the tragic last moments of the life of a police officer.

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USA / 6minutes

Leonard in Slow Motion

The world is increasingly faster for everyone, but what happens when you live in slow-motion? A bathroom break might take...

Leonard moves in slow motion, but lives in a normally-paced world.

(Lawrence Lewis, Barbara Livolsi)

USA / 9minutes

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

The Valley of Angels

The Valley of Angels is a project realised by Terra Project Photographers, a collective of documentary photographers founded in Florence in...

A slice of daily life of a family living secluded in the mountains in the south-eastern of Sicily.

(Terra Project Photographers)

Italy / 5minutes

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

Guida – by Rosana Urbes

Guida has dedicated her life working as an archivist, her days, for thirty years, are marked by an unabashed...

Beauty of life is ageless.

(Belisa Proença)

Brazil / 11minutes

Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother

Tom Hardy stars as Sergeant Dan in this short film that marks the directorial debut of photographer Greg Williams....

Tom Hardy plays a temperamental aspiring soldier in a story of brotherly love and strife.

(HenPeg & Loki Productions)

USA / 13minutes

Deer Boy by Katarzyna Gondek

Deer is the guardian of the forest and the connection with the ancestors, Cernunnos is the lord of the...

The dark fairy tale of the deer born boy within a family of hunters

(Centrala, Motion, The Fridge)

Poland / Croatia / Belgium / 15minutes

Borrowed Time – by Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj

Animated short film and drama. We are not used to associate this genre to poignant and dark tales, but watching Borrowed...

American animation comes out of its comfort zone and tells the drama

(Quorum Films)

USA / 7minutes

Online Premiere: Terra

A regular night on a ferry headed to Sicily. It’s presumably Winter, one of those off-season trips in which...

Various human types meet on a night ferry's regular trip.

(CSC)

Italy / 23minutes

FOCUS ON: Mario Furloni

His short documentary Pot Country, co-directed with Kate McLean, was in the official selection of HotDocs, Big Sky and Mill...

Focus on his work, Freeland and the Filmaker360 residency

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The Joke’s on You – by Katie Smith

The Joke’s on You is a refreshing British comedy, winner as Best Short Comedy of 2016 at ECAFF Eddie Comedy...

A refreshing British comedy, a modern and real love story

(Victoria Muldoon)

UK / 11minutes

The Robbery – by Jim Cummings

After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 2016 with Thunder Road, Jim Cummings renews his participation to...

After Thunder Road, another dark comedy where a robbery doesn't go so well

(Fullscreen)

USA / 9minutes

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

Dr. Easy

Dr. Easy  was adapted from the first chapter of Red Men, a dystopian novel by Matthew De Abaitua. The...

A robot with medical training is sent to negotiate a dangerous situation.

(Warp Films)

UK / 9minutes

Online Premiere: Jung – by Munseong Yun

When you watch Jung you suddenly have the feeling that you are in a different world, where the time...

Two South Korean warriors, divided between friendship and rivalry.

(Student Film (Seul Istitute of Arts))

South Korea / 7minutes

Dylan

Dylan is an experimental documentary-film written and directed by New York director Elisabetta Rohrbaugh based on an interview with Dylan...

A young transgender tells us his story on his early morning journey to Conney Island.

(Outer Borough Pictures)

USA / 8minutes

Sofia

Sofia is the debut short film of young Roman director Carlo Sironi, which penetrates in the intimacy of two...

The fragility of family relationships through the intimate communication between two young sisters.

(Kino Produzioni)

Italian / 16minutes

James

Presented at Sundance, and awarded in many international festivals, James is kind of a fragment of a coming-of-age tale,...

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

(Student Film)

Northern Ireland / 18minutes