We take a look at the 2021 Encounters Film Festival programme and pick out our highlights from this year's extensive selection of short films.
Novel adaptations, distribution deals & Tom Brady star in this latest news round-up of announcements from filmmakers previously featured on Short of the Week
Your cheat-sheet to our staff's favorite short films from the past month.
Winner![php]playlist(9058);[/php] Last year saw interactive films finally come into their own as a format for real storytelling. This year, Bear 71 upped the ante with even more interactivity allowing viewers to navigate a map of security cameras as they track a bear across a wildlife refuge.
At a major moment in her life, a young girl encounters an unknown man outside her house, in this ambiguous, poetic film.
The "Lord of the Rings" in 4 min. In a dark subway tunnel, a group of mice find a gold ring-pull that seems to have a mysterious effect on one of them. Not so far from them, an owl and his enslaved rats are watching. The owl sends his rats to get hold of this strange object.
A new Thursday, a new set of Sundance shorts. This is the second of three batches of 2011 in-competition shorts that Sundance is sharing via the YouTube Screening Room, and the fourth of five short programs.
Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.
A short comedy about a secret division of the United States Postal Service
A mind-bending trip through the unconscious loosely based on a polynesian prophecy.
