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Make Like A Dog
On first impression, Make Like a Dog lays out a scene of picturesque, mid-century domesticity: a wife vacuums the carpet, but an empty crib blocks her path. A husband in a sweater vest sleeps...
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A Film by Vera Vaughn
A Film by Vera Vaughn is a delightful filmic mindf-ck (how’s that for a box quote?). Seriously, though, this thriller from director Sorrel Brae plays with the head in the best of ways—it’s a twisting,...
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Red Rover
Inspired to write her film after a vivid nightmare about the end of the world, Brooke Goldfinch’s character-driven tale of an imminent apocalypse, Red Rover, focuses not on why humanity is about to be...
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Mynarski Death Plummet
Created as a “Kinetic War Monument” to Canadian World War II hero Andrew Mynarski, Matthew Rankin’s 8-min short Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic journey through the final moments of the...
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Revisiting BMW's Groundbreaking Branded Content Series "The Hire"
BMW Films are back, and 14 years after setting the internet ablaze the seminal series The Hire will return with an all-new installment directed by Neill Blomkamp. In advance of tonight’s release of...
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The Escape
It’s the indomitable law of the current media landscape: IP which may be rebooted, will be. From Star Wars: The Force Awakens to Netflix’s Fuller House, nostalgia reigns. Advertising is not immune to...
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Dastaar
Dastaar is the type of film that wriggles into your consciousness. Racism, xenophobia, these are some of the most passionately discussed and advocated against issues of our time, but they are big,...
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We're Looking For a Head of Ads & Partnerships
We are looking for a creative thinker to head up Short of the Week’s Ads & Partnerships efforts. This is a part-time position to build an advertising and creative partnerships program from the...
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So F*cking Happy For You
As the sarcastic title suggests, So F*cking Happy for You is a tale about feigning happiness for jealousy. Now, I’ll be first to admit that envy—especially in the world of cinema—isn’t a new topic....
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Dead Hearts
Constructed like a twisted children’s bedtime story, Stephen Martin’s short film Dead Hearts is a charmingly morbid love story about a young mortician who gives away his heart to find true love. An...
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Night of the Slasher
One of the reasons we don’t feature many horror shorts on this site is that the majority that we watch tend to be pretty cliché. But, what if if the clichés are the point? So is the narrative feat...
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Givertaker
In what feels like a mashup of a 90s teen high school film and your favorite Goosebumps novel, Givertaker from Paul Gandersman and Peter S. Hall is a short that feels tailor-made for...
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Tonight It's You
Sin and sexuality play the catalyst to this Bible Belt heavy LGBT horror flick by filmmaker Dominic Haxton. When a young, homosexual male meets up with his dating app hookup, he encounters something...
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Best Films of the Month: October
With our October coverage often overflowing with scream-filled fiction, you may be surprised to find stories from real-life dominating our ‘Best of’ list for this month. Our three picks from the last...
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O Negative
At this time of the year, here at Short of the Week HQ we’re always searching for fresh new Horror to serve-up to our blood-thirsty audience and Steven McCarthy’s O Negative feels like a perfect pick...
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American Juggalo 2
Since we first featured Sean Dunne on our site 6-years-ago (with his surprisingly charming insight into the life of bowling hustler Rocky Salemmo), his relentless filmmaking has now seen him clock-up...
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Napoleon In Exile
A touching, heartfelt tale of a Mother trying to prepare her autistic son for life without her, Michael Lukk Litwak’s 16-minute short Napoleon In Exile is a surprisingly emotive watch that relies on...
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Very Lonely Cock
Despite the somewhat unwanted imagery its, I suspect slightly mistranslated, title might put in your mind, Leonid Shmelkov’s Very Lonely Cock (originally titled Ohen’ Odinokiy Petuh) is actually a...
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Heavenly Gate
Meet Bill (Bart de Rijk), a lumpy dunce who has slipped on fish sticks and killed himself. At the customer service desk of the heavenly gates, he is given the chance to relive one last memory, but if...
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The Duke: Based on the Memoir "I'm The Duke" by J.P. Duke
Whereas the playful title suggests that The Duke: Based on the Memoir “I’m The Duke” by J.P. Duke is based on secondary sources, such book doesn’t exist – and neither does the Duke himself. But he...
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