It's fun when mainstream sites do pieces on short film, and in a rare treat, two such articles were published online today. First up is a brief article and slideshow from the online magazine Slate via is DoubleX blog, where contributor Sasha Watson explores the trend of fashion advertising films.
The 2025 Oscars short film shortlists are here! Find out which titles made the cut and where you can watch them.
A thirtysomething burnout sacrifices his own dreams to take care of his dying mother.
Filmmaker Charlie Tyrell seeks to better understand his emotionally distant late-father through the personal belongings he left behind... including a stack of VHS dirty movies.
A man is forever changed when a mysterious truck appears with a traveling 'doctor' who claims to raise the dead.
When young Emily is kidnapped by foxes and forced to work in the mysterious underground Blue Goo Mines, she must use everything she's got to get back home and uncover the foxes' secret plan!
Chris Shepherd provides an update on his latest work: An animated short centered around prank letters sent by playwright Joe Orton and a follow-up to his 2002 short 'Dad's Dead' - 'Johnno's Dead'.
In the dry desert the only water supply is under siege by an unlikely crew of saboteurs.
This Sundance horror-thriller is the year's scariest short. An illegal migrant worker decides it’s time to move on from picking crops and find a better job. Little does she know, insidious supernatural forces have a different plan for her. Some borders aren't meant to be crossed.
Sentinels is an immersive observational film that follows a small group of young environmental activists as they undertake a tree-sitting campaign to stop a large logging company from clear-cutting a northern California forest.
