MEL Films

  • Filmmaker Update

    The Watchlist (February 2022)

    If you're looking for proof of how making short films can further your career, check out this playlist of features and series from our previously featured filmmakers.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: June 2022

    Hair loss, indigenous perspectives and plastic bags all feature in our Best of the Month picks for June 2022

  • Festival

    Sundance 2013 Online Short Film Program

    A cherished tradition, every year Sundance releases a selection of short films from their competition lineup onto the internet for the duration of the fest. It is an excellent way for fans at home to connect with the goings on, and for short film fans in particular, a great way to spy some of the year's top shorts early in their festival run.

  • Best of the Month

    Best Films of the Month: January

    Sit back, relax & let our top picks for January act as inspiration to stick to your New Year resolutions...or dump them by the side of the road.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: February 2023

    Enjoy a trio of unsettling animated shorts in our Best of the Month picks for February 2023.

  • SOTW

    SotW + PBS Show: Kinetic Editing — The Films of Max Joseph

    We totally adore this edition of our YouTube show! It's our shortest playlist yet, but perhaps the most intriguing. Our indomitable host, Ivan Kander, puts his critic hat firmly on to praise the innovative editing work of rising short form star Max Joseph.

  • Horror

    A Truly Scary Short Film Playlist

    Horror shorts can be a lot of things: campy, funny, gory, spooky, even sweet. For this playlist we don't want any of that—these are shorts to inspire fear.

  • Play
    Documentary Bentley Brown

    First Feature

    Working underground in the year before the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia, a team of mostly women shoots its first feature-length movie amid societal pushback.

  • Play
    Comedy Mark Lester

    Orange Drive

    A year in the life of a guy and his car. A funny/romantic/tragic short film.

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