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.
Drama
Logan George
& Celine Held
Valencia Road
While driving to the reading of her father’s will, a woman is faced with an anomaly on the side of the road.
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.
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.
Comedy
Mark Lester
Orange Drive
A year in the life of a guy and his car. A funny/romantic/tragic short film.
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.
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.
Apocalypse Now Now
Based off a beloved South African fantasy novel this impressive proof-of-concept from rising-star Michael Matthews depicts a snarky, monster-porn-dealing teen dragged headlong into a deep, dark Cape Town underbelly full of monsters and myth
