Henna Night

It’s the night before Amina’s wedding, and the women of the family are celebrating the henna ceremony, a Muslim...

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

(Yalla Film Company)

UK / 12minutes

Player Two – by John Wikstrom

As so often in similar situations, all begins with a little and innocent question: can video games be a...

Can video games be a spiritual experience? The game will never be over

(Self Produced)

USA / 2minutes

Prospect

In  a not-so-distant future, a father and his teenage daughter are on an alien planet looking for precious materials....

Straight out of this year's SXSW, an enchanting tale of survival in an hostile planet.

(Shepfilms)

USA / 14minutes

Can You Read My Lips?

Can You Read My Lips? is an immersive short from director David Terry Fine about lip-reading based on the...

What's it like to use one sense to do the work of another?

(Little Moving Pictures)

USA / 5minutes

The Saddest Boy in the World

Timothy Higgins recalls his entire life on the day of his ninth birthday. He’s constantly thinking about suicide. Written and...

The birthday party of the saddest boy in the world.

(Modern Family Productions
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Canada / 14minutes

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 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

Jonah

Kibwe Tavares is one of  UK’s most exciting young directors. An achitecture grad with a lifelong love of cinema,...

A tale full of surprises and special effects narrates the destructive consequences of fame and wealth in the life of a boy from Zanzibar.

(BFI Film Fund)

UK / 18minutes

All Men Are Called Robert – by Marc-Henri Boulier

A naked and scared young man runs through the woods, chased by someone. His confused and desperate run is...

An anxiety run through a brutal truth

(Insolence Productions, R! Stone Productions)

Francia / 6minutes

FOCUS ON: Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari

The Silence, the latest short film by Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari, premiered in the Short Film Official Competition at...

Interview with the directors behind "The Silence," the Italian entry in Competition at Cannes 2016

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The Walrus

“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together,” so John Lennon...

The Walrus is feeling depressed. He has everything, but feels something is missing in his life... Are you Walrus?

(Luke Randall)

USA / 7minutes

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

Recipe for Gruel

What do you need to make gruel? A pot, water , a little oatmeal and a bible. So says...

Life in a surreal and dystopian world, one meal at a time.

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UK / 10minutes

Ghost

The grief process is a recurring theme throughout the history of cinema. Extremely subjective and universal at the same...

The ghost of a little girl wanders through a dark and spooky city as her parents mourn her passing.

(Self Produced)

Denmark / 8minutes

Duku Spacemarines

La Mécanique du Plastique  is a French creative collective founded in 2011. Thanks to the combination of the very...

An incredible adventure of underground fights, angry hackers and alien invasions.

(La Mécanique du Plastique )

France / 4minutes

Online Premiere: Dulce Dolor (The Sweetest Blow)

 Stories are often born from a single visual epiphany, a suspended moment of astonishment where you can catch the sense...

Crossing the ambiguity of happiness and desire, a human Piñata discovers what is her true nature.

(La Gran Royal, Juan Sarquis, Gabriel Stavenhagen)

Mexico / 14minutes

Holiday Fear – by Nicholas Payne Santos

The last 3 minutes and 50 seconds of a slasher movie. The girl encounters one more time the killer...

The last 3 minutes and 50 seconds of a slasher movie: who has the balls to kill Bad Santa?

(BullMoose Pictures)

USA / 4minutes

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

Malaria

Western, the quintessential film genre, has been reinterpreted in many ways throughout the history of cinema. Post-modern filmmakers such...

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

(Self-produced)

Brazil / 6minutes

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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Bite of the Tail

Four people desperately looking for an answer. Bite of the Tail revolves around the daily difficulties of a wife,...

Four characters struggling to find an elusive truth, and a snake that creeps inside their everyday lives.

(Self produced )

USA / 9minutes

When Namibia Was a City…

Yusuf’s everyday life is dominated by a gorgeous and beloved routine. He wakes up in the morning and drinks...

Yusuf's everyday life is dominated by a gorgeous and beloved routine. A fishing trip could give him a chance to restore his image as the provider and head of family...

(24 Lies Per Second)

Germany / 23minutes

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

ZIMNIK – The Ice Road

Siberia. We are in the district of Evenkiysky, in the Krasnoyarsky region, located in the center of the Russian territory, that...

A trip along the Zimnik, the ice roads that cross the Siberian wilderness during the long winter months.

(dikiy.me)

Lithuania / 16minutes