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The Itching
A collaboration between writer/director Dianne Bellino and animator Adam Davies, Sundance film festival pick The Itching is a stop-motion fairytale centred around anxiety, vulnerability, and...
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Pickle
Examining the complicated relationships humans have with animals, Amy Nicholson’s festival favourite Pickle is a film of unexpected warmth and mirth. Centering on a couple’s dedication to homing sick...
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Underdog
Here’s an inspirational watch to break through the doldrums of winter. Naomi Mark and Vivian Belik’s aptly named short documentary Underdog follows a Japanese expat as she prepares to compete in the...
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Quadrangle
There is nothing quite so quaint as creating a simple, interview-based documentary about the people in one’s life. It’s an exercise that many filmmakers embark upon when first starting out, but of the...
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Sundance 2017 Shorts Online Now
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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Election Night
Most of us will forever remember where we were on the fateful evening of November 8th, 2016. People much smarter than me have written about the immediate consequences of the 2016 U.S. presidential...
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Cherokee
Like most dark comedies, Cherokee is funnier if you don’t think about the real-world ramifications of its characters’ actions. Take off your judicial robes and you’ll find yourself laughing at the...
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Wedding Dress
The symbolism associated with wedding dresses—something that represents a bright, happy future for most brides—is upended in Haroula Rose’s latest short, Wedding Dress. Part of her True Love Trilogy,...
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Solace
Join director Evan Boehm on a kaleidoscopic journey through the unsettling childhood story of a boy trapped in a frightening spiral of addiction in interactive short Solace. Half think-piece, half...
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Mr Madila
Royal College of Art graduate Rory Waudby-Tolley returns to Short of the Week with his hilarious grad film Mr Madila, an animated tale of the filmmaker’s meetings with the titular Mr Madila. Prepare...
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Oscar Short Film Nominees
Oscar nominations have arrived! We’ve got trailers for the 5 short film nominees in each of the Animation, Live-Action and Documentary categories, plus info on how you can watch the full version of...
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Five Star
At the start of senior year, most American high schoolers don’t know where they’ll be going to college, let alone what they’re going to major in when they get there. For most, that uncertainty is...
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The Narrow World
Part faux documentary (similar to what Neil Blomkamp popularized in District 9) and part lyrical tone-poem (think Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival), director Brent Bonacorso’s The Narrow World is a sci-fi...
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Just Add Water
It’s a great time to be a short documentary lover. Nowadays, almost every major online media publisher worth its salt has a video presence—from Vox to the Atlantic to BuzzFeed. And, over the past few...
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Being Batman
We’re living in the age of the superhero. Rising from comic book pages, they have sprung forth to dominate both the box office and our collective popular culture. Heck, even my 2-year-old knows who...
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This Always Happens
Okay…fair-warning…I’m a sucker for a solid two-hander: just two characters talking, revealing inner truths through circumstance and conversation. In that sense, I realize that director Alexander...
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Talk at SXSW 2017!
We’re excited to announce that Short of the Week’s Andrew Allen will be giving a talk at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. The talk is Stealing in Plain Sight and will cover the challenges...
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Crack
Inspired to create his story after hearing a news story that conker-fighting was being banned in school playgrounds, director Pete King decided to take this outlawing of a once beloved childhood game...
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Anna
This is not a film about Alzheimer’s disease. It’s not about its diagnosis, symptoms or treatment. It’s about Anna, a passionate humanitarian, devoted wife, mother and grandmother who developed the...
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My Last Film
Filmmaker and Music Video director Zia Anger returns to Short of the Week with intoxicating 9-minute black-comedy My Last Film – a surprising short looking to give the independent film scene a...
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