Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming in a gut-wrenching and visually brilliant student animation that promises to be a top contender for Oscar.
The boundaries between childhood and adulthood become blurry for a kid at his mother’s cocktail party.
Two transient young men break into an empty church by the sea to form a blood pact: to get rid of their childhood demons and escape the cycle of anxiety and authorities. “It’s not goth to be afraid of darkness”, they agree.
A pilot version of the stop-motion samurai film which tells the story of "Jingoro Hidari," a legendary Edo-era sculptor. After being betrayed by his peers and losing both his father and his right arm, Jingoro is on a journey of revenge with his cat and a mechanical prosthetic arm.
Only a formal handshake separates two politicians from a sealed contract. But as both stubbornly try to gain the upper hand within the gesture, their grim intransigence takes on a monstrous life of its own.
A high school student is sent out of class to find the teacher’s red folder, only to reach a much different destination.
Winner of the Student Academy Award. When a young Nazi SS soldier is discovered by a theater-troupe of survivors celebrating the end of WWII, he is forced to acknowledge his role in their grief.
A kiosk worker dreams of escaping her restrictive workplace, but her sweet tooth and monotonous life has meant even getting out of the exit is troublesome
Night lovestory of two outsiders, who meet in closed swimming pool in the middle of big city.
Making a great short film requires a certain kind of alchemy; because there are no hard-set rules in regards to running time, subject matter, or even medium, filmmakers traverse a tricky path on the road to festival -- and online audience -- acceptance. I was lucky enough to sit down at the San Francisco International Film Festival with a few of the shorts filmmakers that were in attendance and get insight into their process, ask what lessons they learned on their latest productions, and find out what they believe makes a good short film.
