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The right short films can be just as magical as regular films. These are my favorites.
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- DirectorChristopher KezelosA strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.
- DirectorEnrico CasarosaStarsTony FucileKrista ShefflerPhil SheridanA fable of a young boy coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. It's the first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. Will he be able to find his own way?
- DirectorLaurent WitzAlexandre EspigaresMr Hublot is a withdrawn, idiosyncratic character with OCD, scared of change and the outside world. Robot Pet's arrival turns his life upside down: he has to share his home with this very invasive companion.
- DirectorAsa LucanderWhen you lose something dear to your heart, there is only one place it can be found. The Lost Property office.
- DirectorAlan HollyStarsJoseph DermodyOrla FitzgeraldBrian GleesonA lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.
- DirectorSylvain ChometStarsJames PidgeonMichoue SylvainAndrea Usher-JonesIn seductive central Paris, an undernourished gendarme willing to go to great lengths to feed himself hatches a desperate, yet utterly cunning plan.
- DirectorTheodore UshevStarsCaroline DhavernasThe tale of a girl who could see the past and the future simultaneously and respectively with each eye, but never the present.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsJulia PottWinona MaeSara CushmanA little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
- DirectorStefan LeuchtenbergMartin WallnerStarsJoseph FiennesIan McKellenWhen his father dies unexpectedly, a young man seeking to cope with his grief goes on a powerful emotional journey through time and space.
- DirectorTeddy NewtonStarsMuneer LyatiWayne DyerDay encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods. But their suspicions soon turn to curiosity, and they are delighted to find the joys of their budding friendship.
- DirectorSaschka UnseldStarsSarah JaffeAmidst the rain in a singing city, two umbrellas - one blue, one not - fall eternally in love.
- DirectorGeorges SchwizgebelWhile on an airplane, a traveller's spirit plunges into a dream world. Here, under the influence of the unknown, the logic of his desires prevails, and a romantic saga takes shape. This animated film by Georges Schwizgebel masterfully transports us into a swirling world. Set to the twists and turns of a Rachmaninoff scherzo, Romance exuberantly marries music and movement, erasing the boundary between dreams and reality.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsMarion CotillardClark GongEmily StofleA nameless woman enters her Shanghai hotel room to find a vintage record playing and a blue Dior purse that seems to come from nowhere.
- DirectorHana JusicStarsTena CingelTibor KnezevicLena PoliteoTina and her cousin Max cannot stand their Grandma's bad soup, scorching summer heat and utmost boredom any more. Both of them wish they were somewhere else, with some other people. Unfortunately, they only have each other.
- DirectorMarie AymeMartin BrunetAlexandre CazalsA fiery dog with magic powers burst into an ordered urban universe and disrupts its perfect machinery.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyA sunbathing woman has a phantasmagoric vision of ecstasy, derived from various found footage sources.
- DirectorPatrick OsborneStarsSteve ApostolinaKirk BailyBen BledsoeThe love life of a man as told through the meals he gives his adopted dog, Winston.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsMindy RamakerOne-minute short film, used as a trailer for the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale).
- DirectorEliza HittmanStarsViktoria VinyarskaNina MedvinskayaFedor FilonovSonya, a 17-year-old Russian immigrant, lives in a claustrophobic Brooklyn apartment with her dad and his ever-growing menagerie of cats. When the Landlady threatens to kick them out, Sonya is forced to make an unimaginable decision to protect her aging father and herself.
- DirectorAndrey ShushkovAn inventor tries to impress the woman he loves. Will she love him back?
- DirectorLouis LefebvreI, Pet Goat II is an animated film brimming with silent messages and esoteric symbolism. While the movie has no dialog, each symbol tells a piece of a story that covers the fields of history, politics, war, occultism and spirituality. This film explores the Fire of Truth at the Heart of Suffering in a lyrical way.
- DirectorEmma De SwaefMarc James RoelsForced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
- DirectorMirai MizueThe 365 days animation consists of sequence of 8760 pictures, all different shape and color, hand-drawn by the director every day in 365 days. This is the ultimate analog approach by the abstract animated film creator in digital era.
- DirectorKarolien RaeymaekersA young girl has to conquer her fear for her grandmother who is terminally ill.
- DirectorPaul Clipson16mm scope / anamorphic film, Color / B&W, Filmed in the Botanical Gardens of Golden Gate Park and the San Francisco Bay, Music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
- DirectorBill Morrison'Just Ancient Loops' employs high resolution scans of ancient nitrate footage, as well as newly created CGI renderings of space to depict different views of heaven. Original musical score by Michael Harrison, performed by cellist Maya Beiser.
- DirectorHana JusicStarsIva MihalicNeven Aljinovic-TotA girl visits her ex-boyfriend in search of their lost intimacy.
- DirectorDavid O'ReillyStarsJulian BarrattPearl BrilmyerAdam BuxtonIn a funny looking yet very bleak world, a boy learns to play piano while a cat and various other animal characters encounter all sorts of drugs, sex, violence and profanity, with numerous references to pop culture phenomena.
- DirectorAdriano CirulliStarsClaudia VecchiMarco BelloneAlice CapitaniA study of human interaction, expressed through movement and sound.
- DirectorGeorges SchwizgebelThrough paintings that operate on similar principles to those of nested Russian dolls, we follow the spiralling train of thought of a peregrine, a solitary stroller.
- DirectorNicolas ProvostStarsDennis HopperJon VoightStardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost investigates the boundaries of fiction and reality by filming everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and editing the cinematic images into a fiction film by using cinematographic and narrative codes from the Hollywood film language. The award winning 'Plot Point' (2007) that turned everyday life around Times Square into a thriller film being the first part of the trilogy, this time Provost takes his hidden camera to Las Vegas in 'Stardust' and films real Hollywood stars - Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson to turn the glorious and ambiguous power of the gambling capital into an exciting crime story.
- DirectorPaul ClipsonStarsAnya KamenskayaAn exploration of movement, woven into layers of time, and photographed in natural and nocturnal urban spaces, ambiguous within a confluence of lights, colors and darkness.
- DirectorMax Hattler1925 aka Hell is one of two animation loops directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage. The film is based on Lesage's painting 'A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World' from 1925. The other film, 1923 aka Heaven is based on Lesage's painting 'A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World' from 1923. The films were created during 5 days in February 2010 with student animators and CG artists at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark.
- DirectorMax HattlerOne of two animation loops directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage (1876-1954). Based on Lesage's painting A Symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World from 1923.
- DirectorFlorian BabikianVincent BayouxVictor CaireIn a deserted rich house, a couple of amphibians explore their surroundings and follow their primal instincts.
- DirectorIsiah MedinaKids from West End Winnipeg learn to count to One.
- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsMichelrica HughesMiileah MorrisonElizabeth SmithA series of hazy 8mm vignettes, accompanied by a soft, lilting voice over, in which girls skulk around schoolyards, spray graffiti, drink, smoke, pose and embrace, evoking the loneliness, confusion and overwhelming wonder of growing up.
- DirectorDavid FirthStarsDavid FirthCarla SimpsonChristian WebbCream tells the story of Dr. Bellifer, a scientific genius who, after years of smashing particles together, reveals his revolutionary new product: a cream with the power to fix all of the world's problems. - Regent Street Cinema.
- DirectorEduardo WilliamsStarsFernando ContingianiNahuel Pérez BiscayartJerónimo QuevedoThe accident leads a group of young boys from the high roofs of their neighborhood, passing through its destruction, to the deepest of the earth.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiThe witch Baba Yaga keeps her servant the Egg Princess confined and forces her to do hard daily chores around the mill. One night, a batch of kneaded dough comes to life and befriends the Egg Princess.
- DirectorRino Stefano TagliafierroBEAUTY is a short story of the most important emotions of life, from birth to death, love and sexuality through pain and fear. It is a tribute to art and his disarming beauty.
- DirectorKasia KowalczykStarsJosh DeeterElla LentiniTara MilletteA male and female bee meet. They dance, they fall in love, they pollinate. Unwittingly, they drink the nectar from a zombie flower and become zomblebees.
- DirectorJohn Cody KimStarsMaxKatie RedigerMarc CashmanStanley the Pembroke Welsh Corgi is left behind in the break of an apocalypse. All he wants to do is get back to his owner.
- DirectorDeborah StratmanStarsGregg BarbanellDarrin MannA single-shot portrait of the Foley process, revealing multiple layers of fabrication and imposition. This choreographed documentary moves us circularly into, through and back outside a Foley stage in Burbank, CA. While portraying sound artists at work, the typically invisible support mechanisms of filmmaking are exposed, as are, by extension and quotation, governmental violations of individual privacy.
- DirectorSimon CahnSpike JonzeStarsPierre Le-TanSokoSpike JonzeAt a bookstore after closing hours, the characters Macbeth and Mina Harker spring to life and immediately go on a fateful romantic escapade.
- DirectorHarmony KorineGirls dressed as American Indians visit a good old boy for his birthday.
- DirectorLeos CaraxStarsSarah ForveilleRodin's sculpture The Thinker is a sentient being.
- DirectorJanie GeiserJanie Geiser takes us along on her search for the original meaning of the word 'algebra' with the help of a remarkable series of found objects, medical illustrations and a rich variety of animation techniques.
- DirectorNatalia BrozynskaStarsNatalia BrozynskaA stop-motion allegorical fable about the power of fashion magazines on self-image, and how everybody wants to look different instead of being content with themselves.
- DirectorDean WellinsStarsDean WellinsAmidst an old London clock shop, a small, quirky mantle clock comes to the aide of the store's more expensive clocks when a thief breaks in and threatens to steal them away.
- DirectorMary Helena ClarkThe Dragon is the Frame proceeds like an experimental detective film, exploring the enigma of depression in its subtle interplay between presence and absence.
- DirectorStephan TempierStarsAdrien BrodyRichard RiehleJill JacobsonThe story of Danny, a 40-year-old man who is unwilling or unable to grow up.
- DirectorYulia AronovaA young boy imagines his mother to be an airplane who travels to exotic lands.
- DirectorVictoria MatherStarsDrew CaidenHaruka AbeNadia MorganStanleys life runs like clockwork...until an encounter with a mysterious girl turns his world upside down.
- DirectorMukunda AnguloStarsMukunda AnguloNarayana AnguloSusanne ReisenbichlerWhen a man is looking through a window he begins to see different people representing different feelings.
- DirectorErik WernquistStarsCarl SaganWhat if we, humans, were to expand beyond the strict bounds of our pale blue dot called planet Earth?
- DirectorJames Ford MurphyStarsNapua GreigKuana Torres KaheleMuneer LyatiA story that takes place over millions of years and is inspired by the beauty of tropical islands and the allure of ocean volcanoes.
- DirectorWes AndersonRoman CoppolaStarsPeter GadiotRodolphe PaulyLéa SeydouxCandy is a modern chic french woman. She meets Julius and Gene, who are best friends, and cannot choose between them when both of them are fighting over her love.
- DirectorAlyce TzueStarsShira AbergelMason WelchA precocious young girl makes a new friend when a tiny boy pilot drops out of the sky on a broken flying machine. Now she must race against time to return him home, before her new friend becomes stranded on Earth forever.
- DirectorPaul Clipson16mm film by Paul Clipson, and music by Sarah Davachi. Filmed in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Kraków, Sidney, Portland, Napa, Oakland and San Francisco.
- DirectorJames BlagdenStarsDock EllisIn celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis' legendary LSD no-hitter.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsYasmin Kaur BarnAdrien BrodyLeo HattonLone passengers are traveling to join their loved ones for the Christmas holiday, but winter weather conspires to way-lay them.
- DirectorDaniel SousaStarsElsie McKendryBrett TobaskyA wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.
- DirectorKunio KatoStarsMasami NagasawaTo save his house from rising flood waters, an old man uses bricks to build it higher, then he relives events from his past while searching for his dropped pipe.
- DirectorDoug RolandStarsKaycie BowensJaCoby BreauxTanya AlexanderJada is 7 years old. Jada lives alone on Venice Beach. By following her through a day in her life, the story of who she is, why she is there, and who the man is that has come looking for her unfolds.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAnna KarinaJean-Luc GodardEmilienne CailleA subtitle warns, "Beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.
- DirectorAlice C EspositoStarsPhillip RistainoThe real mask is the one that hides your heart.
- DirectorCaitlin DosaSimon PaluckStarsPeyton KennedyDavid RealeAlison BrooksAfter receiving a corneal transplant, a man befriends a witty blue-haired girl at the park.
- DirectorJacob JohnstonStarsAlyson StonerBailey ChaseMax Lloyd-JonesA young man is seduced by an enigmatic new neighbor who promises him the solution to his miserable life - with untold consequences.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- DirectorMatt BarkinStarsMason DavisAaron DelmanAlexia MarquisLuminous is a short narrative film from the perspective of Sam, a young boy who runs into a dark forest to escape from his abusive father. The story melds one boy's fears with the surreal world that lies beneath.
- DirectorZev DeansStarsBradley BaileyMario Diaz de LeonNicholas McMasterAngels watch a deathly play which pits a marionette-controlled man against a horrid apparition which lends itself only to his dreams. Once he awakens, his world grows teeth and devours him, the audience of angels, and us, the true audience.
- DirectorZoran BihacStarsLiliana AntonovaKrasimira IvanovaVeselka KatinovaVideo promo for Lindemann: Fish On.
- DirectorZoran BihacStarsLindemannLilith BeckerMargaux BossieuxVideo clip for Lindemann: Praise Abort.
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsAmy AdamsLaura DernPhilip Seymour HoffmanA montage of unused scenes, shots and takes from P. T. Anderson's The Master (2012).
- DirectorRupert SandersStarsMolly McDowellMariqueen ReznorTrent ReznorIn a hotel room, a dying couple are engulfed in flame as another couple watches.
- DirectorDavid LynchA short animated film that accompanies Interpol's song "Lights".
- DirectorMax HattlerThere is an underlying unchanging sync at the centre of everything. A sync that was decided at the beginning of everything, and that rules everything. Everything follows from that... all time, all physics, all life, all animation.
- DirectorDaniel WolfeStarsJake GyllenhaalTahliah BarnettTimothy RenoufA serial killer played by Jake Gyllenhaal travels through the hippest parties on a killing spree of Dalston hipsters. Gyllenhaal masters the role of unsuspecting dark-eyed psycho as he pumps iron and gums drugs preparing for his next beautifully fashionable victim. Transforming the music video into magnificently dramatic cinema, director Daniel Wolfe has captured contemporary London in a shockingly addictive modern Slasher.
- DirectorDuncan WinecoffStarsNanna Øland FabriciusHelena ChristensenMusic video. Set in an advanced ballet class in Brooklyn, the song is about being satisfied with the cherry on top.
- DirectorDavid SandbergStarsDavid SandbergJorma TacconeSteven ChewIn 1985, Kung Fury, the toughest martial artist cop in Miami, goes back in time to kill the worst criminal of all time - Kung Führer, a.k.a. Adolf Hitler.
- DirectorCarlos CarreraIn a subway station, a man watch a girl acting strange. He realizes that she may be attempting to commit suicide and tries to stop her, but the girl accuses him of being a molester.
- DirectorL. Rezan YesilbasStarsBelçim BilginCem BenderThe prison of Diyarbakir, the setting of the story, is like the symbol of the torture experienced in the prisons in Turkey after the coup d'etat of 1980. However, in this story, I did not choose to tell the things that took place in the prison, or the political prisoners or the torture, or the political fight. Instead, I turned my camera to the little stories of the "silent" women outside the prison, who could not speak another language than Kurdish, which was forbidden in the prisons of that era.
- DirectorAdam DavidsonStarsScotty BlochClebert FordBernard JohnsonA woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.
- DirectorPhilippe OrreindyStarsSophie ForteThomas GaudinPascal CasanovaA man falls in love while in a subway station.
- DirectorJoe NussbaumStarsMartin HynesLisa JakubJason Peck1967 film student George Lucas has writer's block trying to finish his "Space Wheat" script, until a beautiful fellow student with a familiar hairstyle teaches him that the best stories are in plain sight.
- DirectorRyan LarkinA cinematic portrait of people walking in their individual ways.
- DirectorRyan LarkinLaurie GordonStarsRyan LarkinKrassy HalatchevLaurie GordonHow does a beggar see those people who he asks for spare change every day, and how do they treat him? Based on Ryan Larkin's own experiences in the streets.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- DirectorFernand LégerDudley MurphyStarsKiki of MontparnasseFernand LégerDudley MurphyA pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, kitchen objects in concentric circles or rows - pots, pan lids, and funnels, cars passing overhead, a spinning carnival ride. Over and over, a heavy-set woman climbs stairs carrying a large bag on her shoulder. An Art Deco cartoon figure appears, dancing. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiPeople of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorVirgil WidrichStarsJohannes SilberschneiderElisabeth Ebner-HaidUnknowingly, a copy shop employee sets off a bizarre series of events with utterly unforeseen consequences.
- DirectorOlivier TreinerStarsGrégoire Leprince-RinguetDanièle LebrunGrégory GadeboisA pianist finds himself once again facing the performance anxiety demons that he so desperately tries to evade.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerA human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
- DirectorNicholas PetersonStarsJenny AllfordDaniel BallAmanda ChismTold with animation and live-action, 'Drained' tells the story of how a man's selfish addictions can destroy the woman he cares for.
- DirectorOusmane SembeneStarsLy AbdoulayAlbourahBoron Sarret is arguably the first film made by a black African. It illustrates poverty in Senegal, particularly for the working man.
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezStarsLena HorneA documentary short about racism in the United States.
- DirectorMartin McDonaghStarsBrendan GleesonRúaidhrí ConroyDavid WilmotA black and bloody Irish comedy about a sad train journey where an older man, whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball....