"We're kinda different... I bet you can't guess how!" Can you guess how this little guy is different? There's just something that seems a little off about him... But I can't tell what it is! He looks ...

Ahahaha someone finally found a fun way to make fun of standing ovation clocks at film festivals. One of the dumbest film journalism trends of this day & age is the way someone will literally count ...

Short films are a unique outlet for filmmakers to unleash their wildest ideas and full creativity. Not bogged down by the typical limitations and rules of a feature, a director can make a short film ...

Horror short films are a crucial part of the genre festival experience, whether it be a well-curated shorts block or a chilling precursor to a feature film. But oftentimes, they can be overlooked in ...

The prevailing wisdom is this: don’t do it. “It’s insane,” they’ll say. “A waste of money and time and resources,” they’ll whisper. Don’t make that short film. Don’t go to film festivals. Don’t pour ...

The themes run from sweet to harrowing in this year’s selections. By Jeannette CatsoulisBeatrice Loayza and Ben Kenigsberg Perhaps it’s a sign of the times, that drumbeat of anxiety pulsing through ...

Scary teachers and a bathroom-dwelling tiger combine in "Lily", a new animated short film written by Stephen King, based on his 1968 short story "Here There Be Tygers". The short, narrated, and ...

Two decades ago, in 2006, the team at Shorts International transformed one of the key Oscar races, securing the rights to release all five finalists in the Academy Awards’ animated short category on ...

Short film ‘Holy Curse’, has been recently qualified for the 2026 Academy Awards in the Best Live Action Short Film category. It has been making significant waves on the film festival circuit and is ...

The beauty of film as art is that it contains a variety of forms. It can be a fictional, narrative story that springs out of the imagination of a writer, or a documentary that details historical ...

Rather than presenting a biopic with an arc that would naturally be presumed to move in certain directions, François Girard’s Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) approaches its fascinating ...