Article
Oscar Short Films 2024: Predictions
The Short of the Week team predict the winners of the three Oscar short film categories, ahead of the awards on Sunday 10th March.
Festival
Palm Springs ShortFest Online Festival (2012)
North America's largest festival dedicated to short film returns next week. For the second year organizers have created an online component to supplement the proceedings.
Experimental
Fluorescent Hill
Migration
Taking the form of a vintage nature film, this short explores the migratory pattern of a herd of fantastical wild creatures from the sky.
News
Oscar 2010 Short Film Winners Announced
This was a strong year for short films. I can tell by the divided results from our Oscar poll that had close battles in both the animated and live action categories.
Documentary
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
Swatted
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - Online players describe their struggles with "swatting", a life-threatening cyber-harassment phenomenon that looms over them whenever they play.
Documentary
Ivan Olita
MUXES
In the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into males and females. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, individuals who were assigned male at birth but live their lives as women in a limbo between the two genders.
Comedy
Ed Bulmer
Frank's Joke
Frank told a bad joke at his new place of work and nobody laughed, now at 3.00am he's unable to sleep as he ponders on the nature of memory itself.
Experimental
Dumas Haddad
Flowers
A young prince embarks on a search for his one true love in Dumas Haddad's Flowers - an afro-futuristic fairytale of love looking to "reimagine a genre".
Adventure
Melanie Lopez
& 5 Others
The Stained Club
Finn has stains on his body. One day, he meets a group of cool kids with different stains on their bodies. One day, he understands that these stains aren't just pretty.
Experimental
Emily Scaife
Attraction
Urges in the undergrowth. Erupting fungal fantasies. Bursting botanicals... the dust and desires of a tiny alternative universe.
