With our annual Short Awards planned for Early 2022, to round off our yearly coverage we take a look at the S/W team's favourite films from 2021.
A panicked scream shatters the night’s calm. A necklace is stolen, followed by a tragic and fatal road accident. The series of intriguing events that follow reveal love, hatred, and vengeance. A prize-winner at Ottawa, Zagreb, and Sundance, this pulpy noir thriller is one of the most acclaimed animations of the year.
Mo is the only girl on her high-school wrestling team. Will her love of the sport and her desire to connect with her ex-wrestler father overcome the naysayers? Olivia Newman's celebrated short is the basis of her brand new Netflix Original feature.
An afternoon rehearsal for a high school girl's choir turns tense in Jennifer Reeder's surreal award-winning reverie on the process of coming of age.
Ready for a night of partying, a group of college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unusual emergency.
It's been an eventful and film-packed year for Short of the Week. Let's take a moment to look back at the biggest and most important events in the world of short films from this past year.
A new startup with deep ties to Hollywood is betting big on a two-sided marketplace that pairs existing content with brands—a development that could provide real opportunities to filmmakers.
The life of a misguided and intensely focused man, chronicled through his oral obsessions. A creepily offputting short that played Sundance and SXSW
The strange and sordid tale of Eadweard Muybridge, the man who accidentally invented motion pictures.
