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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]
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Do Short Film and Social Media Belong Together? A Look at the TIFF x Instagram Shorts Festival
As the borders between digital and real life blur, film festivals seek to leverage the latter to gain prominence in the former. TIFF’s mini festival with Instagram is an insightful look at influential platforms seeking to leverage each others strengths and envision the future of content
Meet the Gatekeepers
Meet the Gatekeepers: Nicolas Schmerkin (Autour de Minuit)
Autour de Minuit founder Nicolas Schmerkin joins us to discuss distribution, awards and the changing face of the short film industry.
Interview
Interview with Jossie Malis (Bendito Machine)
Many filmmakers look at short films as their teenage yearshappy to get past them and on to something bigger. Jossie Malis is one of the few who understood the power he'd created with his minimalist animated short Bendito Machine and has spent the past 6 years building a franchise around it.
Dark Comedy
Martinus Klemet
In the Air
Television controls every moment of our lives in this stark animation from Estonia's Martinus Klemet
Adventure
Hugo Frassetto
& Sophie Tavert Macian
Traces
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - Thirty-six thousand years ago, in the Ardèche river gorge, as a tribe prepares to go hunting the appearance of a cave lion throws their plans into chaos
Comedy
Peter Peake
Pythagasaurus
When talented directors at the famous Aardman Animations studio are given free reign, they come up with crazy stories like this one about a dinosaur who's good at math.
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Record-breaking Short Film "Hair Love" Premieres Online
One of the most notable short film success stories of recent years, this independent short animation from Matthew A. Cherry played theatrically in front of Angry Birds 2 this summer.
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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CalArts Character Animation Program 2013
Year end projects have been delivered by BFA students of the CalArts Character Animation Program. The best of the best, 23 films, will screen tonight in the famous "Producer's Show", a faculty-juried showcase that is a popular event for industry to attend and see what the next generation of animation talent has to offer.
