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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
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Supermarket – by Gianluca Abbate
“I’d like you to make yourself at home, wipe all thoughts from your mind…”: thus begins Supermarket, the second…
An invitation to make you fall asleep goes with us while a chaotic landscape sets up on the screen…
(Gianluca Abbate)
Italy / 8minutes
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Killing Klaus Kinski – by Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Killing Klaus Kinski by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Greek-Colombian director best known for the uncut cult film PVC-1 (2007) and Meteora…
The vertiginous reimagination of a myth of the history of film: the filming of Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog
(Candelaria Films)
Colombia / Greece / 20minutes
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Dark Hallucinations – by Diego Salinas
Dark Hallucinations is an experimental short film directed by Diego Salinas. Intended as an installation by Funken Studio collective,…
An immersive audiovisual installation by Funken Studio, a chronicle of darkness where life loses every possible grip
(Funken Studio)
Chile / USA / 3minutes
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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
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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
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Bianco
A blinding white, a barren nature that’s pure and precious at the same time. We are in Carrara, Tuscany,…
A solemn and silent Italian shortdoc on the marble quarries of Carrara.
(Student Film)
Italy / 9minutes
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Men Buy Sex – by Alice Russell
Men Buy Sex is the first documentary by Alice Russell and she chooses a quite delicate theme. She decided to…
A shortdoc about paid sex that will probaly trigger a very long discussion.
(Fat Rat Films)
UK / 8minutes
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Online Premiere: Mario de Marcella – Il Solengo
Is it at all possible to live outside the human community? This is the essential question raised by Il Solengo,…
The incredible story of a solitary man living in the Vejano forest in the heart of Italy.
(Ring Film)
Italy / 7minutes
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Blinky™
In a not-so-distant future anyone will be able to have their own personal assistant: the heavily advertised Blinky™. An…
(Image Now Films, Alturas Films, Logolite Entertainment)
Ireland / USA / 13minutes
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Happiness – by Steve Cutts
Try to google the word Happiness, the first (sponsored) result of your search will be shophappiness.com. Happiness can be bought. This…
Can we buy happiness? Are we really trapped? An economic textbook about our contemporary society
(Steve Cutts Art)
UK / 4minutes
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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
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Selfie
From the “mirror stage” of Lacanian memory, to the Renaissance portraits, to analog self-portraits, to serial auto-representation in the…
An hilarious 60 seconds animated “sketch” on the most viral obsession of the moment.
(Free-lance)
UK / 1minutes
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From Dad to Son – by Nils Knoblich
A prisoner receives the message that his old father needs help with care of the farm. In his desperate…
Son’s love… in papercraft
(Kunsthochschule Kassel)
Germany / 6minutes
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Analogue People in a Digital Age
It is the day of the analogue to digital switchover of television transmission. Conversations about life, death and quantum…
As the analogue age draws to a close, eight men sit in an Irish bar and battle to remain relevant in the digital world.
(Twopair Films)
Ireland / 13minutes
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Paralys – by John Boisen & Björn Fävremark
John Boisen and Björn Fävremark are specialists in the materialisation of nightmares and private demons. They move through the…
The experience of a sleep paralysis (that you shouldn’t watch alone…)
(Is This It)
Sweden / 8minutes
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Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2014
A “SPECIAL” WELCOME INDEED. We are at the opening of the 60th edition of the International Short Film Festival…
In its 60th anniversary, Oberhausen sets out to discover a “cinema without film” between experimentation, memory and absence.
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FOCUS ON: William Laboury
William Laboury studied History of Art and editing. His body of work consists mostly in found footage films. His self-portrait…
Memory as an archive of images in the works of the young French director and graphic designer.
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Robbie
The use of found footage is quite common in contemporary cinema. A recurring device in horror and science fiction,…
The incredible story of a robot, made using only NASA’s archival footage.
(Self-produced)
Australia / 8minutes
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Traces – by Puru Agarwal
The galaxy of Indian short films is vast, full of hideous works and wonders. Several short films featuring well-known…
Disability is a state of mind, as shown by a Bharatanatyam dancer and the author of her novel
(Samvit Kher)
India / 2minutes
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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
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The Shift
American suburbs, 1964. An ordinary day in the life of an ordinary man. Joe, our protagonist, comes home from…
1964. Joe’s seemingly ordinary day takes a bad turn, as he comes home to find out that his wife hasn’t been cooking dinner. And there’s a very good reason for that.
(Eppich Films )
USA / 9minutes
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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
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7:35 in the Morning
What is the most romantic thing you have ever done for somebody? Well, your answer probably’s not a 10th…
One morning a woman enters a restaurant – only to be met with silence instead of people talking…
(Ibarretxe & Co.)
Spain / 8minutes
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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
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The Landing – by Josh Tanner
It all starts (or ends) in a hospital room, where a mature man stands watching the last glimpe of…
Summer of 1960, a Midwestern farm: Where is the enemy?
(Perception Pictures)
Australia / 18minutes
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Head over Heels
After many years of marriage, Walter and Madge have grown distant from each other, to the point that they…
This Oscar-nominated animation is an heartwarming tale of a married couple whose lives have grown in opposite directions.
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UK / 10minutes
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Taxi Cab Teranga
A day in new york. A man gets up and goes to work. A girl, perhaps n the other…
A day in the life of Omar, a Senegalese taxi driver in New York City, who learns that any day could be his last.
(Self-produced)
USA / 11minutes
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Envelope
Some feelings are universal. The apprehensive await for a the mailman and the important letter he’s bringing. Evgeniy’s passion since…
An innovative thriller starring Kevin Spacey, set in the Russia’s Cold War era.
(Trigger Street Productions)
Russia / 17minutes
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The Italian short film (potential) industry.
Is there an Italian “short film industry”? Is there an economy linked to short film sector at all? These are…
The “Report 2014” of the Italian Short Film Centre sheds a light on an key-sector of the audiovisual that struggles to define itself “industrial”.
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