The Strange Ones

A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is what it seems to be.

Best of the Month May 31st, 2024

Best of the Month: May 2024

Motherhood, culpability and perception are explored in this trio of short films selected by our team as their favorites from our May coverage.

Playlist January 30th, 2012

Best Animation | SOTW Awards 2012!

We honor the best animated short films from the past year from a variety of categories including best 3D, Experimental, Stop-Motion, Student and Traditional Animation.

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Horror Lael Rogers 10 minutes

The Influencer

A social media influencer describes her perfect day harvesting the eyes and minds of her followers to achieve immortality.

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Sci‑Fi The Brothers Lynch 16 minutes

Trial

A pioneering mind transfer procedure offers a quadriplegic soldier the chance of a new life... but at a terrible cost. A high concept science fiction short from filmmaking duo The Brothers Lynch.

Festival September 6th, 2022

A S/W-Centric look at TIFF 2022

Programmer Céline Roustan highlights the must-watch films, from S/W alums, at TIFF 2022

Festival August 24th, 2012

The ShortList Online Film Festival: Part 2

No preamble, if you want to learn more about this fantastic online competition, check out the first half of our coverage from yesterday. Again, due to embedding restrictions, please visit the festival website to view the films.

Festival March 7th, 2019

Watch These SXSW 2019 Short Films Online Now!

Five films from the upcoming Austin-based film festival's official program that you can stream at home.

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Sci‑Fi Ethan Shaftel 13 minutes

Flesh Computer

A man taking care of his cybernetic pet is threatened by a group of idle troublemakers.

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Experimental Blu & David Ellis 8 minutes

Combo

Street artist Blu animates large-scale creatures as they crawl across an abandoned Argentine cityscape.