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The Ten Best Short Films on Netflix
Like short films? Have access to a Netflix account? Here are the 10 films worth your time [Updated March. 2025]
Adventure
Dylan White
Yowie and the Magpie
A son recounts the legend of his father, an avid hunter whose collection lacked only one mythical beast...
Documentary
Liam Saint-Pierre
The Last Storm
Mark, a 60 year old fledgling storm chaser recently diagnosed with lung cancer, sets out across the Midwest with his friend's nephew in search of a tornado before the two month season comes to an end.
Fantasy
Liam LoPinto
The Old Young Crow
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.
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Oscars 2021: The Short Films battling for an Academy Award
With Oscar voting starting tomorrow, the S/W team explores the shortlists for the 2021 Academy Awards and highlights our favorite film in the Animated Short Film, Documentary Short Subject & Live Action Short Film categories
Thriller
Joe White
The Brain Hack
A computer science major interested in neurotheology joins with a film major to construct a film that induces hallucinogenic visions of God, and in doing so become the targets of a militant religious sect.
Sci‑Fi
Marcus Anthony Thomas
Space Plug
Completely devoid of stimulation and social interaction except for a series of fluid-filled 'beings' that are birthed through the walls to provide vital sustenance, a baby human must survive in a blank white room in the middle of space.
Horror
Mariama Diallo
Hair Wolf
In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture…
Documentary
Liam Saint-Pierre
The Reinvention of Normal
A profile of artist, inventor, and designer Dominic Wilcox and his quest for new ideas.
