Best of the Month
Best of the Month: April 2023
Prepare to be tense, teased and touched as the Short of the Week team pick their latest Best of the Month films from our April coverage.
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.
Comedy
Clay Liford
My Mom Smokes Weed
A geriatric mother and her twenty-something son embark on a road trip to meet some dastardly drug dealers in order to replenish a supply of certain herbs.
Festival
Palm Springs Shortfest Online Film Festival
Palm Springs! We are very close to the arrival of North America's most important film festival dedicated to shorts. I know not everybody follows the festival scene, and I know it gets confusing because I'm always tweeting that Festival X is the most-_____ festival in all of _____, but for short films, trust me, Palm Springs Shortfest is a pretty big deal.
Documentary
Rayka Zehtabchi
& Shaandiin Tome
Long Line of Ladies
A girl and her community prepare for her Ihuk, the once-dormant coming of age ceremony of the Karuk tribe of Northern California.
Festival
Sundance 2011 Short Films Online: Program 4
A new Thursday, a new set of Sundance shorts. This is the second of three batches of 2011 in-competition shorts that Sundance is sharing via the YouTube Screening Room, and the fourth of five short programs.
Drama
Ian Harnarine
Doubles With Slight Pepper
In rural Trinidad, Dhani struggles to support himself and his mother by selling doubles (Trinidad’s quintessential street food). When his estranged father returns from Canada unexpectedly, Dhani must decide if he will help save his father’s life despite their strained relationship.
Documentary
Brett Chapman
The Residue of a Relationship
The Residue of a Relationship is a short film that looks at the leftovers of love and tries to piece together what it all means.
Branded Content
Best Branded Films
What is a branded film? Genres are much easier to define in hindsight. For now, it's a question we can only partly answer.
Dark Comedy
Eros V
Meat Puppet
On the day he promised his girlfriend he’d grow up, a man-child inadvertently traps himself inside a puppet.
