All Films - Short Movie Database

Underdog

2024 • 30 min • Finland

Underdog begins as a dog-filled travelogue but eventually forms into a cinematic essay that effortlessly moves from one time and place to the next. The film criticises selective breeding and explores the history of oppression based on racial categorisation in both the human and dog world. The film’s audiovisual argumentation is constructed effectively through split-screen cinematography and voiceover narration.

Esto, que llevo dentro

2021 • 6 min

In a letter to an artist lost to suicide at age twenty-eight, a filmmaker revisits his own battle with a rare anxiety disorder, forging an intimate relationship with his mother.

You Can’t See It From Here

2024 • 20 min • United States of America, Colombia

A spatial exploration of Miami, and the endless pursuit of the American Dream in an era of immigrant mass mobilization, the absurd dominance of wealth and border securocracy.

Rise of the White Ibis

2024 • 18 min

From escaping a destroyed habitat to becoming a local celebrity, the Australian white ibis is no stranger to controversy. But is it deserving of the prestigious position of Olympic mascot?

Animators Also Cook!

2024 • 2 min

One animator, a.k.a. the cook, with a smashing recipe. A few characters, a.k.a. the ingredients, with the mind-blowing idea to rebel against their creator.

Disturbia

2024 • 7 min • Bulgaria

Before our very eyes a strange human-bird hybrid undergoes constant transformation to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.

Mikeules: Final Battle at the Secret Lair on Skullfinder Mountain

2024 • 11 min

In order to vanquish evil and save the realm of Keldak, Mikeules must finally confront his arch-nemesis, Count Monstrokolus.

TriKE

2022 • 4 min

TriKe is a visual representation of the chaos we shape in order to thrive within the fullness of ourselves. Our film uses absurdity to scandalize our explicit vulnerability in a public space. TriKe is a celebration of our childlike sensibility to find the erotic in the mundane, and the power within our complexities.

Rata

2024 • 16 min • United States of America

A tenant releases a rat from its trap, unleashing chaos in her apartment complex.

Seven Dawns

2024 • 2 min

Seven Dawns explores the restlessness inherited from the artist’s estranged Romani ancestry in South West England. The seven dawns symbolise fleeting opportunities for escape, framed within the duality of home as both sanctuary and confinement. Captured on a Super 8mm cartridge, using a hand made lens and developed by hand, the film’s fragmented, spectral imagery evokes the fractured nature of history, memory, longing and place.

Pigeons on the Rooftop

2024 • 15 min • Romania

In a quiet Bucharest suburb, Edith and Stan lead an unremarkable life – until Spiridon, the building handyman, stirs their routine with a startling revelation: their new neighbor, Anilov, breeds pigeons that are not what they seem. As Edith, a fervent believer in conspiracy theories, becomes increasingly obsessed, her imagination spirals out of control, blurring the lines between reality and paranoia. Meanwhile, Stan, a man of reason, struggles to anchor her in logic, navigating the growing conflict between belief and skepticism.