Festival
Annecy 2022: A Shorts-Centric Guide
With Annecy running from June 13-18 2022, we take a look at the short films you won't want to miss at this year's festival.
Filmmaker Update
Filmmaker Updates: March 2021
With the 2021 festival season now underway and annual awards starting to be handed out, we take a look at what some of our previously featured filmmakers have been up to over the last couple of months.
Sci‑Fi
Andreas Salaff
Lifeline
70's-era hand-drawn animation about an aging inventor's struggle to find his way home.
News
Short Film Articles in NyTimes, Slate
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.
Drama
Alexander Christenson
This Always Happens
They swiped right. Their star signs align. But snap judgements may be too high a wall to climb.
Bad at Dancing
A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider, Joanna increasingly inserts herself into the relationship of her more charismatic roommate Isabel. The two women test each other’s sexual and emotional boundaries in this surreal dark comedy which won the Berlinale's coveted Silver Bear. Warning! Explicitly Sexual!
Documentary
Charlie Tyrell
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes
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.
Adventure
Delphine Dussoubs
Little Monkey
A young monkey, initiated by his master, will pass his transition to adulthood. He will have to fight fire, metaphor for his fear of growing up, by taming the sound of the sacred djembe, symbol of independence.
Sci‑Fi
Rosa
Absolutely Stunning. Is it from SQUARE? PRODUCTION I.G? No, the most perfect realization of the anime-style in 3D comes from a single young animator out of Spain.
Filmmaker Update
Filmmaker Update: Chris Shepherd
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'.
