Short of the Week

Short of the Week

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"Les Larmes de la Seine" and "My Duduś" Lead the 2024 Short Awards
The 2024 Short Awards by Short of the Week recognized outstanding short films, with "Les Larmes de la Seine" winning both Jury and Best Animated Short, "My Duduś" capturing Documentary Short of the Ye…
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A Beat to Rest

Dan Silver

A Beat to Rest Late into his career, an elderly drummer comes to terms with getting older.

A Black Hole Near Kent County

Hannah Schierbeek

A Black Hole Near Kent County During a cold Midwestern winter, Julie, a factory driver with a mysterious illness,…

A Crime Across Four Landscapes

Aidan Weaver

A Crime Across Four Landscapes When a small-town crime goes awry, the evidence is scattered across four picturesque…

A New Inferno

Nita Blum-Reddick, Jonathan Pickett

A New Inferno "A New Inferno" is a vérité short documentary set during Phoenix’s historically hottest…

A Round of Applause for Death

Stephen Irwin

A Round of Applause for Death Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of…

A Tiny Man

Aude David, Mikaël Gaudin

A Tiny Man Complexed by his wife's body, a man sneakily administers a mysterious serum supposed to…

All At Once

Maggie Brill

All At Once On a journey across Central Park, an introspective high school senior develops unexpected…

Bear Story

Gabriel Osorio Vargas

Bear Story Every day, a melancholy old bear takes a mechanical diorama that he has created out to…

Between Us

Cailleah Scott-Grimes

Between Us Kei, a transgender man, longs for a quiet, "normal" life in rural Japan, but his partner…

Brief Somebodies

Andy Reid

Brief Somebodies While rehearsing a sexual assault scene, a pair of actors form a connection they'll be…

Cameraman

Arsalan Motavali

Cameraman In the late '90s, a newly immigrated cameraman desperate to restart his career must…

Changing Rooms

Violette Gitton

Changing Rooms César is 12 when his older sister Lou is sexually assaulted. In the changing rooms of the…

Crow Man

Yohann Abdelnour

Crow Man In a cabin deep in the woods by a lake, a girl and her ailing grandpa are awaiting Death.…

Darwin’s Notebook

Georges Schwizgebel

Darwin’s Notebook In 1829, three Indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego are taken from their homeland by a…

Dear Home of Scars

Marina Meijer

Dear Home of Scars In Dear Home of Scars, we see celebrated visual artist Ibrahim Mahama return to his…

Deep in My Heart is a Song

Jonathan Pickett

Deep in My Heart is a Song An aging country musician who's struggling to make ends meet receives an offer for an…

Empty Your Pockets

Tara Aghdashloo

Empty Your Pockets An airport customs officer deals with various passengers while trying to secure his job,…

Finding Daddy

Emily Wilson

Finding Daddy Sisters Dinky and Flossy are truly at rock bottom, but when they discover their estranged…

Fish Bones

Kevin Xian Ming Yu

Fish Bones A nonbinary Asian American from Queens tries to reconnect with their estranged father…

Kai Hasson

Five Star When late-night locksmith Soung Kang is asked to lock a door forever, he discovers a dark…

Flash Warning

Allegra Leguizamo

Flash Warning On a weekend getaway with her boyfriend’s family, Pia must learn to trust herself after…

Forever

Théo Djekou and 4 co-directors

Forever Garden gnomes live happily, until a golf ball wrecks their lives. They will seek revenge!

Galapagos

Kyle Sims

Galapagos A lonely schoolteacher falls into chaos when her beloved pet rabbit mysteriously…

Homemade Gatorade

Carter Amelia Davis

Homemade Gatorade A woman embarks on a road trip to deliver her creamy homemade sports drink to a…

How to Bury Your Father

Ammar Keshodia

How to Bury Your Father A young man returns home and spends the night trying to fulfill his father’s dying wish…

I See You

Briar March

I See You A mother struggles with her toddler's delayed development until a chance encounter with a…

Jesus 2

Jesse Moynihan

Jesus 2 In a future where no one can die and no one wants to live anymore, two space pirate…

Leela

Tanmay Chowdhary

Leela Two young women in a desolate coastal town discuss the recent, mysterious vanishing of…

Lines

Martin Schmidt

Lines An aggressive battle between red and dark blue unfolds. The borderlines between the…

Lollygag

Tij D'oyen

Lollygag A woman recounts her sensual yet macabre childhood memory about the boy next door.

Long's Long Lost & Mini Mart

Julian Doan

Long's Long Lost & Mini Mart In the seedy back halls of a Little Saigon convenience store, a young customer reanimates…

Mantis Stream! Like & Subscribe

Lincoln Robisch

Mantis Stream! Like & Subscribe Craig gets engaged and chokes to death on a egg, live on the internet.

Margarethe 89

Lucas Malbrun

Margarethe 89 Leipzig, 1989. Margarethe, a young punk opposed to the East German regime, is detained in…

Martyr's Guidebook

Maks Rzontkowski

Martyr's Guidebook Tony is the ultimate good guy, sometimes to a fault. From nabbing the smallest slice of…

Max Distance

Marissa Goldman

Max Distance Stuck in endless droning Zoom meetings, a programmer daydreams about the stranger next…

Mercenaire

Pier-Philippe Chevigny

Mercenaire Hired by a pig slaughterhouse through a social reintegration program, an ex-convict…

NUKE

Kelsea Bauman-Murphy

NUKE A dark comedy that follows Molly, a struggling comedian, as she forces herself onto the…

Orange Story

Shahaf Ram

Orange Story about being lost in space, saving the world, searching for true love — and above all, a…

Our Neighbors, The Peacocks

Callie Barlow

Our Neighbors, The Peacocks A bird’s-eye view of Arcadia, California’s official symbol—the peacock—beloved by some,…

Our Uniform

Yegane Moghaddam

Our Uniform An Iranian girl unfolds her school memories by going through the folds and fabrics of her…

Praeis (It’ll Pass)

Dovydas Drakšas

Praeis (It’ll Pass)A daughter of a cigarette smuggler reevaluates the memories of her father, questioning…

Quaker

Giovanna Molina

Quaker Brooklyn high school seniors share their unfiltered feelings with each other during their…

Queer Blue Sky

Nick Beardslee

Queer Blue Sky After realizing many of the best things in their relationship were maybe kind of queer,…

Rainbow Girls

Nana Duffuor

Rainbow Girls As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young black trans women decide…

Scorched Earth

Markela Kontaratou

Scorched Earth In between the insufferable summer heat, a thesis that won’t write itself, and her loud…

See Me

Patty Stenger, Yvonne Kroese

See Me Five-year-old Alice is at a party for grown-ups with her mother. She tries to get noticed…

Sister!

John Onieal

Sister!Blondes and brunettes are rivals in this country, until a stranger with a ditzy attitude…

Stairs

Riley Donigan

Stairs A woman’s life unravels after she becomes addicted to throwing herself down flights of…

Steak Dinner

Nathan Mark Ginter

Steak Dinner Casey's attempted surprise dinner date gets derailed when Taylor, her girlfriend, reveals…

Sticky Notes

Trim Lamba

Sticky Notes After buying a second-hand iPhone, a man discovers it’s filled with notes and doodles…

Telsche

Sophie Colfer, Ala Nunu

Telsche On the vast salt flats under dark clouds, a hole in the ground swallows the memory of a…

Tennis, Oranges

Sean Pecknold

Tennis, Oranges A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find…

The Cost of Flesh

Tomas Palombi

The Cost of Flesh Alice is a totally paralyzed teenager who can only communicate through the movements of…

The Grace

Natalie Berger, Moira Fett

The Grace Over the course of one year, a sustainable salmon fisherman struggles to stay afloat at…

The Medallion

Ruth Hunduma

The Medallion Ruth divulges the history of a precious artifact: a medallion that signifies her family’s…

The Miracle

Nienke Deutz

The Miracle 40-year old Irma goes on a vacation to an all-inclusive resort. Soon after her arrival…

The Most Perfect Perfect Person

Paul Trillo

The Most Perfect Perfect Person short film featuring Poppy.

The Name of the Son

Martina Matzkin

The Name of the Son Lucho, a 13-year-old trans boy, doesn't usually share much time with his father. When he…

The Roe Deer

Delphine Priet-Mahéo

The Roe Deer Overwhelmed by her family life, a woman abandons her husband and children for an…

The Snip

Ben S. Hyland

The Snip Determined to not have any more kids, a dim witted dad reluctantly goes for a vasectomy.