The S/W Team selects their Favorite Short Films of 2023
Vengeful sculptors, baby squirrels and backflipping avatars - the S/W team pick their favorite short films from our 2023 coverage.
Vengeful sculptors, baby squirrels and backflipping avatars - the S/W team pick their favorite short films from our 2023 coverage.
Mehrdad, an Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman in Tokyo. Many years later, he reflects on Chiyo’s sudden disappearance through his old sketchbook in a combination of animation and live-action techniques.
After a successful business meeting, a man is guilt tripped into calling his mom.
Karim seeks to free himself from the echoes of his past relationship with Alfie, on a trip to their special island.
A dance of death between a mother and daughter ignites when the daughter attempts to install a new stove in her mother’s house in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.
An airhostess collapses on flight, convinced that the problem is her new braces. In reality, however, something completely different provoked her midair crisis - her estranged mother's body is in the cargo area of the plane.
Indigenous people and salmon have been intertwined for thousands of years in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Today, kids learn from elders to fish but must also learn to fight, as pollution from Pebble Mine threatens this pristine ecosystem. Can the next generation defend the most prolific salmon run left on earth?
Teenager Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous family Thanksgiving at Auntie Pinky's house in southeast San Diego in 2006.
After a night out, two drunk best friends share just how much they care for each other.
On a seemingly unimportant day, a janitor at a university receives a call, from Nigeria, that his mother has been kidnapped and is being ransomed for an absurd sum. This film is inspired by true events