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    Drama Lucy Knox

    Hot Mother

    A mother and her daughter are going through a very stressful time together. They hope that their stay at a spa hotel in the mountains will help relax the situation. But the isolated retreat becomes the setting for a physical and psychological nightmare.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: March 2021

    An Oscar hopeful, a playful metanarrative and a haunting animation make up the S/W team's highlights from our March coverage.

  • Filmmaker Update

    Filmmaker Update: June 2021

    Short Film adaptations, Hollywood blockbusters, BBC Dramas & Jim Cummings - the latest news from our previously featured filmmakers.

  • Filmmaker Update

    Filmmaker Update: Nov 2017

    Catch up on the achievements of Short of the Week featured filmmakers in the month of November

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    2022: A Year of Short Films

    From alumni news to Oscar winners, take a look back at a year on Short of the Week

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    Documentary Daniele Anastasion & Nathan Golon

    I am Yup'ik

    A simple game unites a community at the furthest, coldest reaches of the earth in this Sundance short film for ESPN's 30 for 30 series.

  • Branded Content

    3 Animated Holiday Ads to Melt Your Heart

    Some of the most emotional holiday storytelling comes from brands. With phenomenal animation production and touching stories, we picked out our three favorite animated ads of the season.

  • News

    Oscar Nominations Announced

    The 82nd Annual Oscar Nominated Short Films have been announced with a few surprises.

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    Drama Lorcan Finnegan

    Foxes

    A young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses and shrieking foxes are beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world.

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    Dark Comedy Andrew Theodore Balasia

    On God

    When Kream wakes up from a gunshot induced coma, he vows to change his violent ways. But when he returns home to his old neighborhood, his friends try to convince him to get revenge on his attacker, Big Mike, who has terrorized them and their families for their entire lives.

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