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Online Premiere: Black by Sara Taigher
Rome, summer. One night, unexpectedly, a total blackout leaves the city without electricity. People feel paralyzed, their world is…
A short film part of a wider cross-media project to brighten your soul during these days of forced quarantine
(So What Pictures)
Italy / 14minutes
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Guilt – by Moisés Aisemberg
Moisés Aisemberg was able to make Guilt (La culpa), a short film about sexual impulses in adolescence, repression and…
“Dulce Doror” director offers us a short film about sexual impulses in adolescence and child abuse
(Filmaciones de la Ciudad)
Mexico / 16minutes
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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
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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
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Wolf Call – by Ramey Newell
Wolf Call is the new short film directed and produced by filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and graphic designer Ramey…
A short doc following the work done by wolf caretaker and award-winning photographer John Ramer
(Ramey Newell)
USA / 9minutes
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Prey – by Aćim Vasic
The twist, the sudden and surprising turn, is quite often what makes a short film memorable. It is the…
The perfect night of a predator turns out as a veritable nightmare
(Bridges)
France / 8minutes
On Replay
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Modern Life is Rubbish
It’s hard to think of a more fitting title for this bittersweet story about separation and the division of…
A recently broken-up couple separating their music collection leads the way for a dissertation on love, loss and the inherent evil of greatest hits albums.
(Self-produced)
UK / 13minutes
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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
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The Arab Series #1: Noor
Ramadan is coming and 13 year-old Fingo has one wish — he wants to hang lights on his apartment…
For the celebration of the upcoming Ramadan, Fingo has one wish: to decorate with colored lights the building he lives in.
(Self-produced)
Egypt / 15minutes
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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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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
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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
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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
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Motorville
The map of America comes to life and starts wandering around looking for oil reserves, long extinguished from the…
The United States of America come to life in the search of the lost oil.
(Self-produced)
USA / 3minutes
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Suspend Belief
An American actor with a questionable french accent, set to play a frenchman in a city that should be…
A meta-filmic rom-com suspended between reality and fiction.
(Self-produced)
UK / 6minutes
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Singularity
Often action shorts are based on science fiction stories that reflect the current obsession with space and robots, but also…
In the midst of a war between humans and sentient androids, a Delta Force team must rescue the US President.
(The Bicycle Monarchy)
USA / 8minutes
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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
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Fear of Flying
It looks like Stop-Motion, but it isn’t. Combining puppetry and 2D and 3D animation, director Conor Finnegan has created…
It’s time to migrate south, but Dougal is afraid of flying. The tragicomic adventure of a bird and its phobias.
(Brunella Cocchiglia)
Ireland / 9minutes
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Adrift
Simon Christen shot for two years various photos of a misty San Francisco at dusk, to compose this highly…
Misty Landscapes.
(Self-produced)
USA / 5minutes
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La Huida – The Runaway
Helvetica , pastel colors , a voice-over that directly addresses the viewers, eccentric characters and catchy music … at…
The colorful deconstruction of a moment in the life of a group of bizarre characters.
(Escandalo Films )
Spain / 11minutes
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Lost Cubert
Cubert’s life revolves around his monotonous and repetitive work. He repeats the same actions every day, in the cold…
The monotonous and repetitive work of an everyday man suddenly turns into an Escherian nightmare.
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Germany / 6minutes
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Person to Person
Back in March 2014, New Yorker critic Richard Brody wrote an article about the role of shorts in the…
A New Yorker’s daily life is halted as he finds a stranger girl sleeping on his apartment’s floor.
(Arts+Labor)
USA / 18minutes
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10 Animated Shorts That Made the Oscars 2017 Shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 semifinalists for this year’s animated short Oscar…
The Academy has announced the 10 semifinalists for this year’s animated short Oscar race
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Roadtrip USA
Mike Matas and his girlfriend Sharon Hwang (who also created the opening and closing titles) take us on a…
2 weeks, 3,000 miles, 5,000 photos in 3 minutes. A time-lapse journey across the USA.
(Self-produced)
USA / 3minutes
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FOCUS ON: Jim Cummings
Jim Cummings, writer of Thunder Road and director of Thunder Road, is also the main actor in Thunder Road. His short film, Thunder…
Interview with the director of Thunder Road, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival
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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
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Afronauts – Zambia’s Space Program
It’s the 60s: the world is divided by the Cold War, and the USA are in the midst of…
A short presented at the Berlinale and a photographic book narrate the incredible space-adventure of an african dreamer in the 60s
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/ 14minutes
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8 Hours in Brooklyn
Filmed over a period of 8 hours in Brooklyn using a Phantom Flex – a special camera that slows…
A slow-motion ride along the streets of Brooklyn, NYC.
(Variable)
USA / 3minutes
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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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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