Short films

Short films

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

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  • Amistà

    Movie

    Short film, by Donato Leoni, Italy, 2024.
    Paul and Beckie are two close friends, they love the 70s and the hippie era. They love each other and can't live without each other. They will embark on a journey that will help them understand what their friendship really means.

    Director's Biography - D...

  • She So Perfect

    Movie

    Short film, by Olivier Hero Dressen, China, 2023.
    Eva is a perfect girl with an ideal life; everybody in Shanghai envies her. She goes to the best restaurants, with the best dates, sees the best movies, and is always the best dressed. At least that’s what our narrator thinks. She is so Perfect te...

  • Night Market

    Movie

    Best Animated Film Indiecinema Film Festival.
    A 2D frame-to-frame animation. Guided by butterflies, a little girl with cancer escaped from the hospital door. She tried to embrace freedom in the city streets at night.

    Director Biography: Yingyu Zhu, Chenyi Zhu, Xinyu Sun
    We are a three-person dir...

  • Oasis

    Movie

    Short film, by Garance Staehli, Germany, 2023.
    If you pull a pendulum out one way, it will swing back just that far the other way. Where is the fine line of powerful yet delicate balance?

    Director Biography - Garance Staehli
    Garance is a dance artist originally from Switzerland and currently bas...

  • 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 ...

  • Pale Blue Dot: A Tale of Two Stargazers

    Movie

    Short film, by Matteo Scarfò, Italy, 2021.
    A female form is sent to investigate a planet to see if it may be habitable, and after crash-landing her directive is revealed to be a sacrifice for exploration against her will. She is discovered by a robotic presence who explains that she is on Earth a...

  • 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...

  • One Two Three, Star

    Movie

    Short film, by M. Deborah Farina, Italy, 2024.
    Three elderly and surreal travelers, relying on the vision of the comet, are in search of the Cave of Bethlehem. Like modern “Magi” wise man, they enter into countryside spaces, city stairways, spaces out of time, with characters from parallel worlds...

  • 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...

  • Fragile Reflections

    Movie

    Short film, drama, by Andrew Short, United Kingdom, 2023.
    Arthur and Jemma are a couple whose marriage has grown stale over the years. They look forward to spending a weekend at a cottage in an attempt to rekindle their passion, but a small argument over a dirty glass turns into a heated argument...

  • Kiseru

    Movie

    Short film, sci-fi, by Igor Neljak, Croatia, 2024.
    In a mysterious world, a synthetic being lives in isolation. While tending to a garden of bonsai trees, it evolves, learns, and strives to fathom its own purpose. With each power cycle, it dutifully continues its routine until a single bonsai tre...

  • 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...

  • Beirut 2030

    Movie

    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
    Movie

    Kite

    Movie

    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

    Movie

    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...

    Movie

    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

    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...

  • Miss Agata

    Movie

    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

    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...

  • The Year of the Dog

    Movie

    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

    Movie

    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...