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Curt
Here at Short of the Week, quite often our ‘to watch’ lists can get a little swamped with what you’d probably describe as “heavy” narratives. Pieces of fiction that focus on death, illness or broken...
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Wild Life
Nominated for a ‘Best Animated Short’ Oscar at the 2012 Academy Awards, Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby’s tale of an Englishman sent to Canada to become a man, is a film of deadpan humour and an...
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The Classic Channel
While we focus most of our efforts on looking ahead toward discovering the next generation of innovative storytellers, we’re also film buffs at heart and have long had a love and appreciation for the...
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La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons (The Old Lady and the Pigeons)
Winner of the ‘Best Animated Short Film’ award in 1997 and nominated for the ‘Best Short Film, Animated’ Oscar in 1998, La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons (The Old Lady and the Pigeons) is a 22-minute...
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re÷belief
Created with the intention of telling a personal story about relationships, Raymond McCarthy Bergeron’s re÷belief employs some experimental techniques in both aesthetic and story to produce a hypnotic...
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Can You Read My Lips?
There’s nothing quite like the frustration of losing audio while watching a TV show, movie, or short film. Sometimes actors turn away from the camera, speak from the corner of their mouths, or have...
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Lost Property
Ever since I saw the opening sequence of Pixar’s Up (you know the part I’m talking about), it seems like I’ve noticed a shift in animation—less hijinks, more sentimentality. The cynic in me wants to...
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Atama Yama (Mount Head)
A modern translation of a classic Japanese Rakugo story, Koji Yamamura’s Atama Yama (Mount Head) is the strange and darkly funny tale of a man who unexpectedly has a tree begin to grow out of his...
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Sensitive Guys
If you have ever had the pleasure/displeasure of sitting through a bunch of film school thesis short films, you’d notice that most tend to be long, dramatic slogs—films about depression and suicide...
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Amy
While the whimsical meet-cute has become an all too familiar short film trope, it is much less common for the filmmaker to place us at the sour, recriminatory end of the story. In Jacob Chase’s Amy,...
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Neil & John: The Key
If the folks narrating Drunk History weren’t just inebriated but also on speed, the resulting product might look and sound a bit like The Key. Now, let’s get a few things out of the way—this is a...
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When the Day Breaks
Nominated for a ‘Best Short Film, Animated’ Oscar at the 2000 Academy Awards and winner of over 40 prizes from around the world, including a ‘Grand Prix’ at Annecy and a ‘Palme d’Or’ at Cannes, Amanda...
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Voyage of the Galactic Space Dangler
It is no secret – we love short stories that transport us to a world or situation which engages and entertains us. Doesn’t really matter if it is dramatic, comedic, romantic, or, in the case of Evan...
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ROADTRIP
Rocking a confident “indie” vibe and striking hand-drawn aesthetic, it’s pretty easy to see why Xaver Xylophon’s unorthodox road movie has been popular with festival curators worldwide. Screening at...
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36 Questions
Giancarlo Fiorentini and Jonathan Grimm’s 36 Questions is a short narrative inspired by the romantic social experiment developed by social psychology researcher, Arthur Aron, who managed to get two...
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Interview with Joe Sill (Kara)
Creating a story set in one of the most revered and heavily scrutinized universes ever committed to screen, you can bet the dedicated Star Wars fan-base is going to have questions. Speaking to...
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Kara
A short time ago in a galaxy not-so far away (Yuma, Arizona) a young filmmaker called Joe Sill took to the sand dunes just outside the Mexican border and set out to make a short film set in one of the...
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Watch Short Films from the 2016 Sundance Film Fest
While the vast majority of the 72 short films programmed to play over the next week and half in Park City will be world premieres, Sundance has long been a pioneer among festivals by embracing online...
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Harvie Krumpet
Voiced by esteemed actor Geoffrey Rush and showcasing director Adam Elliot’s distinct ‘Clayography’ style, Harvie Krumpet is the Oscar-winning tale of a World War Two refugee who relocates to...
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Xiong di / 兄弟
Set in a Chinese factory where more than 2000 employees work and live, Enric Ribes & Oriol Martínez’s Xiong Di is a surprisingly relatable short, that orbits around themes of hope, friendship and...
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