Short Films

Short Films

The best short films in streaming: emerging directors selected by cultmovie.

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  • The Leap of Success

    Movie

    Comedy, by Lorenzo Freglio, Italy, 2026.
    A multi-million-winning scratch-off lottery ticket turns the lives of a small community upside down. Teresa, the lucky winner, dies shortly after buying the ticket, leaving her daughter Linda with no idea where it may be hidden. With the help of two cheerf...

  • Old Wood Washed up by the Sea...

    Movie

    Documentary by Fedele Aula, Simona Molari, Italy, 1998.
    A rare archival film of an exhibition dedicated exclusively to objects washed up on beaches and transformed into works of art. The archaeology of moving images meets the archaeology of physical artifacts and their transformation into somethi...

  • Brussel: Housing, Transport & People

    Movie

    Documentary, by Fedele Aula, 1997, Italy.
    A short observational documentary that takes us back to Brussels in the 1990s. The director films neighborhoods, houses, trams, daily activities, people, and cars that appear and disappear through crossfades like ghosts. A moment in time and a magnetic me...

  • Irene

    Movie

    Drama, by Valerio Pampaglini, Italy, 2023.
    Irene is trapped within her own unconscious, empty and ruined like an abandoned house. Through broken glass and shady figures dressed in black, a song awakens something long forgotten inside her. The film, written and directed by Valerio Pampaglini, is s...

  • Start

    Movie

    Short film, comedy, by Andrea Lombardo, Italy, 2024.
    Academic short film made with the student actors of Panormos Officina Artistica. Sabrina, a young and brave girl, is ready to begin her journey into the world of Pokémon. Raised by her sister and a friend of her sister, Sabrina has learned the ...

  • How do You Take Your Coffee?

    Movie

    Short film, comedy, by Andrea Lombardo, Italy, 2022.
    Miriam, Francesco and Placido find themselves in the kitchen of the girl's house after being involved in a brawl the night before. Francesco and Miriam are sleeping on the kitchen sofa, exhausted after a stormy night. Placido stares at Miriam a...

  • Sketch

    Movie

    Short film, comedy, by Andrea Lombardo, Italy, 2024.
    A standup comedian has to perform in a club in Palermo where he performed at his debut. Always followed by his bodyguard and the curator of his interests, they meet the friendly bartender and a regular customer of the club who is already there ...

  • B.A.R. - Rotating Suckers

    Movie

    Comedy, by Andrea Lombardo, Italy, 2023.
    Andrea is a naive but intelligent boy. At a certain point, by pure chance he begins to frequent a bar with all kinds of people. Young people, adults, elderly, men, women. Everything
    mix it up and the discussions continually follow one another in a grotesqu...

  • Studies: on Complexity and Differences

    Movie

    Short film, by Ilaria Pezone, Italy, 2016.
    The animations, conceived as visual representations of some basic points for understanding the universe as a complex system, based on fundamental differences that determine various adaptive modalities in organisms, are intended as a complement to the ori...

  • Hira
    Movie

    Hira

    Movie

    Short film, by Emanuele Colognese, 2023, Italy.
    A short film without a real plot and without dialogue, which tells the sensations of an unexpected encounter. A deaf girl meets a blond-haired boy by chance on the street. They spend pleasant moments together but are destined to go their own way.

    W...

  • Hope in Vein

    Movie

    Drama, romantic, by Marc-Antoine Turcotte, Canada, 2022.
    The film follows the journey of Matt Davis (Joshua Bilbao), a young man dealing with the profound stigma associated with living with HIV after contracting the virus from his longtime partner. “Hope in Vein” delves into the layers of emotion...

  • Rise and Shine

    Movie

    Drammatico, di Alessandro Zonin, Italia, 2023.
    Two young Marines share a room in a military hospital after being injured on a mission. Now they are healed and the time has come to return home: while waiting to leave they exchange confidences, expectations and plans. A beautiful and silent nurse l...

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    Movie

    Experimental short film, by Maya Deren, United States, 1943.
    Meshes of the Afternoon is one of the masterpieces of surrealistic cinema and American avant-garde and has become an iconic work in the world of experimental cinema. The film is characterized by a non-linear and dreamlike narrative that...

  • A Passion You Can't Get Rid Of

    Movie

    Short film, by Antonio Vladimir Marino, Italy, 2007.
    Two friends after ten years meet by chance in the bathroom of a luxury hotel. They had broken up in an Academy of Dramatic Art, they wanted to limestone the scenes of Italian theaters and follow in the footsteps of Vittorio Gassmann, but life t...

  • Glumov's Diary

    Movie

    Short film, comedy, by Sergei Eisenstein, 1923, Soviet Union.
    The film consists of 3 parts. The opening scene begins with a shot of Eisenstein taking off his cap and bowing in front of the poster revealing the stage play, followed by a shot of Grigori Aleksandrov as Glumov, in front of the same p...

  • Quarantrema

    Movie

    Comedy, by Michele Fratucello, Italy, 2020.
    Diego and Federica, Roberto and Laura are two pairs of friends who face the period of the Covid lockdown in the opposite way. The former calmly accept the limitations of freedom they find themselves living in, Roberto and Laura suffer more from the cloi...

  • Moon zero

    Movie

    Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
    Despite its multiculturalist nature, America is paradoxically the first country in the world of the modern era to highlight the distance between itself and the rest of the world and to manage its problems in an openly conflicting manner.

  • The Kindest Man in the World

    Movie

    Short film, action, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy, 2003.
    Danilo Conti, named 'the kindest man in the world', receives as a reward a very powerful bomb that is attached to his wrist. He only has eight minutes to get to a point in the city and defuse the bomb before it goes off. Incredulous, he starts h...

  • The House is Black

    Movie

    Documentary, by Forough Farrokhzad, Iran, 1963.
    The House is Black is a lyrical, transcendent film that places a gaze full of compassion and religiosity towards a suffering humanity. The only source of harmony is found outside the leper colony, in nature: suffering reigns inside. Not even religio...

  • Lonleyville

    Movie

    Short film, mystery, by Federico Mattioni, Italy, 2016.
    The nightmare of an unrecognizable town. A young man enters a dimension that belongs to him but of which he does not want to know anything and tries to get out of it, hindered by the presence of some spirits. Through a series of hallucinatio...

  • Intolerance

    Movie

    Short film, fantasy, by Giuliano Giacomelli, Lorenzo Giovenga, Italy, 2020.
    A deaf homeless man manages to save a girl from the clutches of a rapist. Shocked and moved, the girl is very grateful to the man and she would like to repay. The homeless man wants nothing in return, until a pair of magn...

  • Cracolice

    Movie

    Documentary, by Fabio Serpa, Italy, 2020.
    Calabria, late 1980s and first half of the 1990s. Cracolice, a seaside village in the Tyrrhenian Sea, is sadly known in the news for an event that broke out in the early 90s, never denied or confirmed: following the landing of the famous "ships of poisons...

  • B-52
    Movie

    B-52

    Movie

    Short film, drama, by Flavio Nani, Italy, 2021.
    In the near future, new technology makes us even more alienated and hyper-connected. Marco, crushed by a boring and monotonous life, seeks his place in the world. When he meets Nico at a bar counter, he thinks he has finally found him. But it will e...

  • Ninnao

    Movie

    Short film, drama, by Ernesto M. Censori, Italy, 2020.
    Ninnaò tackles the theme of milk mothers in a direct and raw way, highlighting in an original way the relationships that are established between two women who will end up competing for the baby. You will win that you will be able to take adva...