The complicated dynamics of one family, as observed by a child.
The Short of the Week team predict the winners of the three Oscar short film categories, ahead of the awards on Sunday 10th March.
A 10-year-old boy is thrust into the tumultuous world of puberty when he gets a new pair of eyeglasses.
Teonna is unexpectedly suspended from school and is faced with a day on the streets of Washington, DC. Created in collaboration with local high schoolers, the film is an unflinching portrait of the lived experience of teenagers finding their way through an overburdened public school system.
When an annoying new stepfather moves in with his bratty kids, Penelope escapes to a treehouse above the clouds. All is well until she realizes she has no way back down.
At the precipice of adulthood, a troubled thief joins a boxing club where he encounters values of structure, discipline and perseverance.
With the latest edition of the Sundance Film Festival starting on January 20th, we take a look at the Short of the Week filmmaker's featured in this year's programme.
A narrator sets up the story of a lone gunslinger who walks into a saloon. However, the people in this saloon can hear the narrator and the narrator may just be a little bit bloodthirsty.
With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers, Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi, take on the role of voter and whittle the 45-title shortlists down to the 15 short films they think should advance to the nominations round.
Three generations of hunters - Grandfather, Father, and Son - butt heads as they trek deep into an Idaho forest during their annual hunt in the treacherous winter of 1978
