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.
To protect her infant child on New Year's Eve from an impending intruder, a young widow asks the 911 operator for permission to shoot.
"The films that end up in the programme selection are the survivors of a very bloody battle" - Manchester Animation Festival's Steve Henderson is the latest interviewee in our Meet the Gatekeepers series.
A young man's livelihood is put to the test when he is stopped by the police on his way home.
A boyfriend's jealous impulse spirals out of control in 16 minutes of romantic doom.
In the first of a recurring series, where we look to speak to those involved in the funding, production, distribution and programming of short film, we speak to Guardian Docs Executive Producer Jess Gormley.
As a group of refugees try to reach a safe place, the freezing temperature of the truck they're hiding in quickly turns their hopes for a better future into a fierce struggle for survival.
With his latest short Charlie Says having just featured on SotW and its simple yet powerful narrative still resonating through our minds, we spoke to director Lewis Arnold about basing a film on his own childhood experience, shooting on 35mm and releasing a 24-minute short online.
This year marks the 15th edition of the Short Awards - with 2022's 'Short of the Year' soon to be announced, we take a look back at our previous winners and ask...Are these the best films we've ever featured on the site?
Earth has been abandoned long ago and the human race has now found refuge in outer space. Three archeologists return to the planet to investigate where a mysterious five tone signal is coming from...
