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Kokosmos – by Anna Radchenko

“Glory to the Soviet People, pioneers of the cosmos!”, as a dazzling propaganda poster put it during the Space…

A hymn to cosmic enthusiasm in socialist societies, coming up online (not for nothing) on Russia’s Cosmonautics Day

(KODE Media)

Russia / 2minutes

Memoria del fuego – by Francesco Clerici

Memoria del fuego by Francesco Clerici tells the story of a creation process that is as simple as fascinating…

From the director of “Hand Gestures,” the manufacturing of Cuban cigars in a factory in Estelí, Nicaragua

(Point Nemo Film)

Italy / 6minutes

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

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

Albatross Soup – by Winnie Cheung

“A man walks off a boat. He walks into a restaurant, orders the Albatross soup. He takes a bite,…

A psychedelic animation that explores the creative thinking generated by a famous riddle

(Picture Farm, Cause + Effect)

Usa / 7minutes

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

Sorry We Don’t Help Darkies

A Caribbean family is under attack during the London race riots. We’re in England, in 1958, and racial hatred…

A tragic episode of racism in 50s London.

(TBone Productions)

UK / 10minutes

All Flowers in Time

A creepy old man, two frightened teenagers, a child and a girl that play a game of making scary…

Chloè Sevigny stars in a surreal story about possession and scary faces.

(Phi Centre)

USA / 14minutes

Sunday – by Patrick Doyon

It’s a cold Sunday in wintertime. Sunday immediately brings us back to our childhood and, for a moment, we really…

An animation that brings the unexpected in an ordinary family lunch

(National Film Board of Canada)

Canada / 10minutes

Lights Out – by David F. Sandberg

In 2013 the UK based production company Bloody Cuts launched a competition for the best horror short film, with a…

“Per aspera ad astra”: from indie to major.

(Ponysmasher)

Sweden / 3minutes

Online Premiere: The Show MAS Go On

What is MAS? Let’s explain it to non-roman citizens. It is a legendary shop in Rome, nearby Piazza Vittorio, in…

Artist Rä di Martino celebrates MAS , the Roman famed “department stores of the people”, with a art-doc poised between fiction and reality.

(Produzione Illuminati / Think Cattleya / Federica Maria Bianchi (Snaporazverein))

Italian / 30minutes

Distortion – by Grégory Papinutto

Distortion by Grégory Papinutto is a solemn story of an ambitious struggle to survive. The French writer/director has crafted…

A weird, disturbing and terrifying slasher about mind-altering mutations

(Gamines)

France / 14minutes

Memory by Design

This refined exercise in style will help us reflect on our obsession of recording and capturing moments of our…

An innovative exercise in style about the preservation of memories.

(The incomplete recordings )

USA / 5minutes

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

Cinematics – by Pier Paolo

A boring evening? Let’s challenge your friends to recognize all the films quoted in Cinematics. The experimental short film directed by…

A funny visual timeline of classic films and characters

(Self Produced)

Brazil / 1minutes

The Cat Piano

A “feline” film noir with “beatnik” nuances: that would be the best way to describe The Cat Piano, an…

A noir animation, set in the jazz feline underworld, narrated by Nick Cave’s charming and mysterious voice.

(The People’s Republic Of Animation.)

Australia / 8minutes

Ennesimo Film Festival 2018, the Italian short film carnival

Welcome to Tile Valley: Ennesimo Film Festival 2018 is an illuminating example of cultural project management. From 4th to…

Welcome to Tile Valley: we went to the Ennesimo Film Festival in Fiorano Modenese and no, this is not “just another” festival report

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Next Floor

Next Floor is the surreal short film made by Canadian writer-director Denis Villeneuve that plunges us into an opulent…

During an opulent and luxurious banquet, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage.

(Phi Group)

Canada / 10minutes

International Film Festival – Clermont Ferrand 2015

The importance of the festival and the Italian presence in Clermont-Ferrand. Located at the bottom of a chain of…

The historic French festival started. Here are the trailer of the Italian shorts, and a major crowdfunding campaign promoted by the CNC to support our national production in the world .

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Out – by Roee Rosen

Out (Tse) is the short film directed by Israeli artist Roee Rosen and winner of the Orizzonti Award at the…

The cruelty’s exorcism by Roee Rosen

(Roee Rosen)

Israel / 34minutes

Italian shorts at Cannes Film Festival 2015

As it is firmly established the now multi-year Italian participation at the Marché du Film Court di Clermont – Ferrand, this…

The Italian short films industry “shows off” at Marché du Film of the prestigious French festival, thanks to the support of the Italian Short Film Centre.

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A Pale Blue Dot

Many of the problems that plague our small terrestrial existences can be often “solved” with a change of perspective,…

An uplifting animation with commentary by Carl Sagan, offers us an unexpected perspective of our earthly existence.

(Student Film (Sheridan College))

Canada / 4minutes

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

The Pavement

The pavement, the night, those eyes, the glass, the red, the smoke, those lips, her touch, the pavement… Wait,…

The city at night, a couple, a gunshot… nothing is what it seems in this innovative and highly suspenseful neo-noir.

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USA / 3minutes