The Tree – by Cheikh Mohammed Horma

A lumberjack travels in the desert. There’re just sand dunes, ants, dromedary camels and bulldozers around him. A bunch...

An immersive visual experience of Sahara desert, exploring the changing balance between man and nature

(Sahara Lab)

Morocco / 9minutes

Online Premiere: Il Fischietto (The Whistle)

Il Fischietto (The Whistle) is the debut shortfilm by Roman director Lamberto Sanfelice, produced by ANG Film in collaboration with...

The story of a little girl facing a traumatic event and her personal way of acceptance.

(ANG Film / Asmara Film)

Italy / 15minutes

The Cosmic Dope – A Plant Experience – by CLEMENTE

The Cosmic Dope – A Plant Experience by the Brazilian director CLEMENTE, born in San Paolo, is presented as...

The experimentation of the effects of a new and unknown species of orchid: an impeccable style exercise

(Paranoid)

Brazil / 5minutes

Eat My Shit

Samantha (Anna Marìa Polverosa) has taken a selfie of her face and posted it on Instagram, but it has...

The moving story of a girl whose butthole is where her mouth should be.

(The Other Side Films)

Spain / 3minutes

Segundito – by Carlos & Roberto Valle

Horacio and his wife have a son who does not stand still for a second. He does not stop even...

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

(Auntie)

Spain / 2minutes

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

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

Runaway – by Emily Buchanan, Susan Yung and Esther Parobek

In the Internet of Things era, loving a refrigerator will not be so weird. Probably it’ll be easy to...

The best time of the year to love your refrigerator

(Paper Planes)

USA / 4minutes

Tiger Boy

Tiger Boy is the sixth short film directed by Gabriele Mainetti, Italian actor, director, composer and producer born in...

From the director of They Call Me Jeeg Robot, the story of Matteo, a nine year old kid whose hero is a wrestler of a Roman suburb called The Tiger.

(Goon Films)

Italy / 20minutes

Rise – by David Karlak

In a not so far future, robots develop feelings. This unexpected event scares humanity, which reacts as a frightened child...

A justified revolt of the machines.

(Underground Films / Vertigo Entertainment)

USA / 5minutes

Abe

Abe was programmed to love. Until recently, he had a family: he was living with them, cooking, helping them...

What if a robot that was programmed to love stops being loved by those around him?

(Zero-G Productions)

UK / 9minutes

Dan Invited Hanna Over for Dinner

Hanna’s day life is abruptly shaken by an unexpected dinner invitation from her boyfriend. “Dan does not know how...

An unexpected dinner invitation disrupts Hanna's life. Idiosyncrasies and anxieties in the life of a modern young couple.

(Cynical People)

Canada / 10minutes

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

10 Doc Shorts That Made the Oscars 2017 Shortlist

Ranging from the Syrian refugee crisis to the shooting of Walter Scott, the 10 doc shorts that made the...

Ranging from the Syrian refugee crisis to the shooting of Walter Scott, the Academy shortlist

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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

Online Preview: La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak / Butter Lamp

The online preview is ended. You can still watch the trailer and read the review! Starting from a very...

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

(Ama Productions)

France / China / 16minutes

Bora Bora – by Bogdan Mirică

The title of the first short film directed by Romanian helmer Bogdan Mirică can be misleading. The audience, watching the first...

The absurdity of life in one of the most drought-affected areas in Romania

(MediaPro Pictures)

Romania / 32minutes

Alien Attack from the Interspace – by Alessio Gonnella

Sci-fi in Italy is possible. Thinking about Italian cinematographic difficulties to approach this genre, it seems just an oxymoron....

Sci-fi in Italy is possible, but... How can the trumpet save us all?

(Festina Lente)

Italy / 24minutes

Short Film Day: beautiful shorts in the shortest day of the year.

On December 21, the shortest day of the year, 22 Italian cities and 17 internationals celebrated the short film...

Thanks to the Italian Short Film Centre the national short film scene stands out at the Short Film Day with a wide and quality selection.

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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

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

Black Metal – by Kat Candler

When metal is linked with crime. The West Memphis Three — Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley —...

The lead singer of a black metal band dealing with guilt and sorrow: if an artist's work is used for unintended purposes, is the artist partially responsible?

(Candler Productions)

USA / 8minutes

Monsieur Cok

Monsieur Cok is the owner of a large bomb factory. In times of war,  hedecides to increase production to...

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

(Papy3D)

France / 10minutes

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