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Boniato
Halloween is over, but does that mean we can’t program horror shorts any longer? Of course not! Good thing too, because today’s featured pick is fantastic. With creepy production design, kick-ass...
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False Alarm
Hold-tight! Russian filmmaker Ilya Naishuller is jumping back into the world of the POV music video with this explosive short-film for The Weeknd’s False Alarm.Following a group of bank robbers as...
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Barry
Drug-dealing is an unsavory business and it deservedly has a pretty crummy reputation, but does it have to be so? Can’t drug-dealing be a kinder, better vocation? Barry, an “aw shucks” sort of gent,...
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Love, Dad
At only a little over 3min long, Love, Dad is a gorgeous and heartstring tugging doc/narrative hybrid about the most noble qualities we humans possess, set against some of the most debased conditions....
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160 Characters
Upgrading her phone and relegating the old Nokia to the kitchen drawer, filmmaker Victoria Mapplebeck realized that the phone contained all the text messages between herself and her ex-partner....
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The Last Move
A film about compassion and the obsession nature of collection, The Last Move isn’t your typical portrait documentary. Granted, at first blush, it all seems like generic “profile doc” stuff. In...
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Red Folder
In films aiming for social commentary or seeking to deliver a message, there is the risk that they lack subtly in their delivery or, in some cases, be pure ham-fisted in their blunt narrative; almost...
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Aftermath
Yeah, I know…another “post apocalyptic” narrative. *Sigh*…I’m tired of these too. But, what director Jeremy Robbins’s short film lacks in aesthetic originality, it more than makes up for in solid...
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Journal Animè
Sarcastic and infantile, Donato Sansone playfully skewers the leading newsmakers of the time in a viscerally funny and satirical diary of his own crude sense of humor. Part of the series “Dessine...
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Muck
A dark drama about the inner workings of a struggling standup comedian, Bruce Smolanoff’s MUCK explores what it’s like to be a female trying to break out of an unforgiving industry and a depressing...
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Lost Boy
From PostPanic, the Amsterdam based outfit that brought us 2015’s most influential sci-fi short, comes the second in a proposed series of director-driven film projects. Lost Boy is an incredibly...
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The Mink Catcher
I’ve always wondered how Republican wives manage to smile so long on the campaign trail without losing their composure. How do they act when they’re not onstage? Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann’s...
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Aleatoric
The director of Aleatoric, Andrew Sales, remarked that he consistently sleeps to the music of The Books. Perhaps worried of what that implied, he was quick to clarify: it’s not that their music is...
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Upstate Purgatory
At the end of a 6 month shoot inside Albany County Jail in upstate New York, director Lee Phillips took a well-deserved vacation. Like with many projects, he had to strip back countless hours to...
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Chez Moi
As the title suggests (it translates as “My House”), Chez Moi explores concepts of ownership, safety and stasis against forces of change and accommodation. Put so bluntly, the film’s themes sound...
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The Mulberry Bush
We came under a bit of criticism recently for our feature of FX-driven Sci-fi short Lost Boy, so hoping to put our focus firmly back on story with this latest pick, we’ve turned to a director well...
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Black Swell
A film focused on point-of-view and missed connections, Jake Honig’s Black Swell is a tense drama set to leave viewers reeling at its gut-punch conclusion. Centred around a desperate man (Richard...
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The Meaning of Life
When we created the Classics channel here at Short of the Week, there was quite a lot of discussion around what attributes a film would need to have to fall into this categorization. Tracing the...
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BIN
If you’re worried about Donald’s Trump’s rise to power, Brexit, ISIS, the banks or any other item on the ever-expanding list of reasons the world is going to sh*t, things could always be worse…you...
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Man and Boy
Following hot-on-the-heels of recent pick The Mulberry Bush, David Leon and Marcus McSweeney’s explosive drama Man and Boy tackles similar themes (both films orbit around a suspected paedophile) with...
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