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    Comedy Chelsea Devantez

    Basic

    A short, short comedy exploring our nastyass petty side, and the insecure lil' ho inside all of us. Part of our SXSW Shorts Week coverage. #SXSWshorts

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    The Short Awards 2022: Category Winners

    From the 233 short films we featured on Short of the Week in 2021, our team has selected 14 we think deserve extra praise and attention. This is the 2022 Short Awards

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    Drama Alex Nystrom

    Four Nights and a Fire

    A young Ojibwe photographer stubbornly takes on the responsibility of keeping a sacred fire alive for four consecutive days and nights in mourning of his father. His father’s spirit tries to reach him from the other side.

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    Best of the Month: December 2021

    A trio of animations make up the S/W team's final Best of the Month playlist from our 2021 coverage.

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    S/W 2018 Year In Review

    A reflection on a great 2018 in short film curating, a peek ahead to 2019, and a playlist of shorts that were especially beloved by our curators.

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    Best of the Month: October 2022

    A tense morality tale, one of the best horror shorts to ever feature on our pages and an inspirational documentary released for Indigenous Peoples' Day make up our Best of the Month picks for October.

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    Dark Comedy Nick Roney

    The Flute

    *LINK OPENS IN A NEW TAB* - Fleeing a long term relationship, a young man seeks refuge with his best friends. After discovering their strange instruments, he'll learn the bachelor lifestyle is not as sweet as it sounds.

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    A Whole Bunch More SXSW Shorts are Streaming For Free

    Over 50 selections from the SXSW 2020 Short Film Programs are now online and streaming for free in their own stylish micro-site, thanks to Mailchimp and Oscilloscope Laboratories. Let us guide you on what to check out first.

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