Short films

Short films

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

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  • Hira
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    Hira

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    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...

  • Beirut 2030

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    Drama, by Tarek Al Merhi, Lebanon, 2023.
    It is the year 2030 in war-torn Beirut. After the unfortunate yet inevitable demise of his brother, Hakim - a young Lebanese Muslim - desperately attempts to escape the country by any means necessary to ensure his survival.

    Director Biography - Tarek Al M...

  • Kite
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    Kite

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    Drama, by Olivier Hero Dressen, China, 2023.
    A man stands on the edge of a cliff and stares into space below: he wants to commit suicide. He happens to meet a little stranger with a kite and a sword. They are both alone, but fate brings them together on a remote island. Often it is worth living e...

  • Monstre

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    Horror, by Valerio Graglia, Italia, 2022.
    Flavio is an actor who said no to underpaid roles and other people's ambitions. He now has a regular job but for the last time he let himself be carried away by Valerio's latest idea. Together with Camilla, on the first day of filming Flavio will find him...

  • 21...

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    20th March 2020, India. Prime Minister has just announced a 21 day nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of Corona virus. The film is an observational account of a desolate film institute campus. The spaces which were once swarming with young film students are now empty and frozen. There is no s...

  • Hope in Vein

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    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

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    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...

  • Miss Agata

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    Susanna, a very unattractive woman, receives a dietary supplement as a gift from her friend Pamela. The Bonason are capsules which improve the self-esteem, and that should lead Susanna to take care of herself and improve her vision of life and world. After the last rejection from her colleague Sa...

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

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    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...

  • The Year of the Dog

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    Thriller, by Jeremy Johnson, United States, 2019.
    A lonely man, perhaps mentally disturbed, begins to compulsively follow and photograph a beautiful young woman. He discovers that he is a prostitute and sees her seduce a man on the streets of Los Angeles and take him home. The woman becomes her o...

  • The Dark Web

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    Thriller, drama, by Andres Di Bono, USA, 2022.
    A desperate father delves into the depths of the infamous Dark Web to find a new heart for his ailing son whose days seem to be numbered. Facing the loss of his family and perhaps more, he must answer the question: "How far is he willing to go?" A ti...

  • A Passion You Can't Get Rid Of

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    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

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    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

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    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...

  • 4B movie

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    Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
    What do they share, apart from 'B', Beckett, Buster Keaton, Bene and Bergman? They all lead a wide-eyed actress to perceive their own view. The way they shift from physical to metaphysical appearance.

  • Moon zero

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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...

  • Believe in you

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    Short film, mystery, by Emilio Mercanti, Italy, 2020.
    Inspired by modern cinema such as that of Christopher Nolan, the director questions the question of time in this short film, disseminating important details in the narration that the viewer must not miss. A film that takes place in a surrealis...

  • Intolerance

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    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

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    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
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    B-52

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    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...

  • The eyes of the land

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    Documentary, by Marcos Altuve, Spain, 2020.
    The biodiversity crisis is one of the most serious problems on the planet. To stop the processes of extinction of the species, urgent diagnoses are needed. One such endangered species is the Moorish tortoise in Morocco. But quickly determining the prese...