Short films

Short films

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

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  • 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...

  • About Nice

    Movie

    Documentary, by Jean Vigo, France, 1930.
    With an old used movie camera bought with the money loaned by his wife's father, Jean Vigo shoots a documentary about Nice. Meeting Boris Kaufman changes the French director's initial project, which will be influenced by Dziga Vertov's operator. The nature...

  • Swimming

    Movie

    Documentary, by Jean Vigo, 1931, France.
    Documentary on the French swimmer Jean Taris, specialized in freestyle, swimming champion in France in 1929. Commissioned to Jean Vigo by the sports editorial team of a French news bulletin of Gaumont, the director uses commissioned work to experiment with...

  • Zero for Conduct

    Movie

    Comedy, by Jean Vigo, France, 1933.
    The holidays are over and it's time for the kids to return to the terrible boarding school, run by obtuse and conformist tutors, unable to encourage the growth of any spirit of freedom and creativity. The only thing these austere professors are capable of is as...

  • Emperian

    Movie

    Sci-fi, by Mahbub Islam Raftaar, Bangladesh, 2021.
    Earth was destroyed due to famine, war, starvation and human devastation, but some people who remained in space survived and later formed a colony called "Emperian". Years later they have discovered a way to go back in time. Therefore, they decid...

  • Simon of the desert

    Movie

    Comedy, by Luis Bunuel, Mexico, 1963
    Simón, a long-bearded holy man, lives on a column in the middle of the desert, almost in total fasting. People worship him as a Messiah. He performs miracles, undergoes temptations from Satan, who torments him under the guise of a handsome woman. A series of g...

  • Valdemar

    Movie

    Short film, sci-fi, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy, 2011.
    Freely adapted from "The Strange Case of M. Valdemar" by Edgar Allan Poe: a man on his deathbed, is mesmerized (a kind of hypnosis), remaining suspended between life and death until ...

    LANGUAGE: Italian
    SUBTITLES: English

  • Tao
    Movie

    Tao

    Movie

    Short film, sci-fi, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy.
    In the near future, Europe and USA are united in a "Democratic Federation": the only way to become a member of this federation is to attend the TV show "Tao" and to fight against other competitors for the green card.

    Food for thought
    Tao means "the w...

  • Shadow

    Movie

    Short film, mystery, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy.
    Lumi is a ten year old child with no friends, who lives with her grandmother tele-dependent: since feeling lonely, she creates an imaginary friend in her shadow... Freely adapted from "Shadow" by Edgar Allan Poe.

    LANGUAGE: English
    SUBTITLES: Italian

  • Lockdown trilogy of mine - Stage I: Apathy or as the muse was locked down

    Movie

    Short film, by Rachele Studer, Italy, 2021.
    Apathy: Lockdown 2020. A quarantined writer is facing a creative block. And so the Muse is stuck in his mental fears. The fears come from the economic and social instability that lockdown had ran over his face. A tribute to all the artists in the world ...

  • Lockdown trilogy of mine - Stage II: Claustrophobia or Everbody is herodoc

    Movie

    Short film, by Rachele Studer, Italy, 2021.
    A quarantined writer (who can no longer write) seems to accept the government measures, even if they deprive him of his freedom, privacy, strenght, joy and, most of all, his job. So it happens that at some point he can't breathe anymore. Strange sensati...

  • There is a salad standing between us

    Movie

    Short film, comedy, by Alice Von Gwinner, Germany, 2017.
    42nd Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt / 49th Nashville Film festival. The length of their dining table and the unreachable salad bowl in the center has become a symbol of their slowly freezing relationship. Today the time has finally come to c...

  • 12 cm of heel

    Movie

    Short movie, thriller, by Fabio Giovinazzo, Italy, 2018.
    "12 cm heels" is a medium-lenght thriller movie directed by Fabio Giovinazzo where a savage murder catered increasingly to the vogue for the fanciful and the bizarre.

    LANGUAGE: italian
    SUBTITLES: english

  • Before the time changes

    Movie

    Short film, by M. Menegazzo, M. Pernisa, Italy, 2017.
    Every year, the last week of October, between Saturday and Sunday, the transition from summer to solar time takes place, the antechamber of the winter season. Before moving the hands back one hour and feeling the approach of darkness, someone ...

  • Todosentimento

    Movie

    Short movie, music, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2018.
    “Todosentimento” as well as revealing a piece of music of the highest quality, contributes to the knowledge of one of the most felt artistic relations of Italian-Brazilian language, Maria Pia De Vito - Chico Buarque. The protagonist is a po...

  • Almost love

    Movie

    Short movie, music, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2017.
    It is the story of an undefined love, although also a story striving to exorcize its end, both playfully and ironically, where – finally – “the art of the encounter” prevails. It is an embracing of hands, like Angelo Cariello and Valentina ...

  • Ballad of Hypochondria

    Movie

    Short movie, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2016.
    A path for music and images suspended between narration and experimentation, technology and tribalism. “Ballad of hypochondria (or Vibrio in love)” primarily focuses on symbolic work on the color scheme, materialize in the form of photographic mas...

  • Video on paper

    Movie

    Documentary, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2011.
    Video on paper is a voyage into the imagination of Perino & Vele in search of the creative impulses which spark the production of these two artists – more of a prelude to their work than a presentation. Three authors, artist-director Antonello Mat...

  • The shout

    Movie

    Short film, by Federico Mattioni, mystery, Italy, 2020.
    A young aspiring scientist, married to a woman with whom he has just had a shared dream, and a man with paranormal powers from an unspecified place, meet in the high Umbrian mountain landscape for a parapsychology test. Crossley claims he ha...

  • Like a mirror

    Movie

    Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
    There is no way to escape the portrayal, basically life itself is a sham.

  • Apice

    Movie

    Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
    It has been several years since 1980, when an earthquake devasted Irpinia, South Italy. Although a massive reconstruction, some places, here and there, like dead memories or museums in the open air, can still remind everybody of such a tragedy. The long-...

  • Keep it real!

    Movie

    Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
    In an old abandoned house a girl finds in a trunk a pair of red shoes that make her fantasy fly... her are dreams of a Star.

  • 80 kg

    Movie

    Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
    A dead man = 80 kg of meat, 4 buckets of water, 1 bag salt. Loosely based on “fatzer-fragment”, “Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer” by Bertolt Brecht, it’s a reflection on narcissism and the value of individual strength when applied in opposite direc...

  • The clear room

    Movie

    Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
    An experimental short film on the nature of the gaze. “I would like a Story of Gaze…” (Roland Barthes)