All Films - Short Movie Database

I Desire Mercy, not Sacrifice

2026 • 6 min • Chile

Light through the stained glass, spiritual architecture, musical light for the eyes. A prayer for times of war. Recorded with a cell phone at the Apostle Saint Matthew Cathedral, in the City of Osorno (Chile)

We Love Poetry

2026 • 31 min

An entire play improvised live in front of an audience, just from a title suggestion - "We Love Poetry".

Lost in Japan

2026 • 5 min

The quiet awareness that everything is temporary. The beauty that exists because nothing stays. In Japan, this feeling followed me everywhere. Watching moments unfold, then disappear. In this film, I tried to capture that sensation. The beauty that exists all around you. The calm. The feeling of being fully present. No destination. No story to follow. Just a moment of stillness, and the sense of plenitude that comes with it.

Waiting for Vera

• 14 min

A lone, elderly oil painter prepares to begin a new painting. After readying his materials, he waits for a final, key ingredient.

Naming Shadows

2026 • 3 min

Beaten landscape of forgotten forms, devoid of life’s semblance but for she who moves through it, she who passes through shadow wordless, nameless, sourceless.

Deadline

2026 • 9 min • Malaysia

Vel, a student filmmaker, races against time to meet five deadlines within a week. He grapples with sleep deprivation, traffic jams during commutes, and haunting mistakes from the past while coping with the hustle and bustle of his student life.

Ball888

2026 • 15 min • Thailand

Ball, a sophomore caught up in online gambling, won hundreds of thousands but his fate wasn’t a winning one.

The Halloween Harvest

2026 • 3 min

A mysterious skeleton arrives at a home on Halloween night

The Prologue

2025 • 4 min

The film builds itself as a noir narrative heavy with doubt, shadows, and suspicion making everything feel larger than it is. Parody slips in quietly. Beneath the metaphors and hard-boiled dialogue lies an absurd truth: it’s all about a missing office remote. Every line, every “pressure” and “control,” is just wordplay masking something trivial. At its core, the film is a satirical portrait of paranoia, control, and inflated self-importance—where nothing means much, yet everything feels fatal.

Circles

2023 • 3 min

Circles is a psychological journey about repetition, identity, and the quiet moment when a hero begins to question himself. Trapped in patterns of choices and consequences, the protagonist slowly realizes that time doesn’t always change who we are it reveals who we’ve been becoming all along. As the line between right and wrong blurs, the film explores how intentions decay, how denial grows, and how one can unknowingly cross from resistance into responsibility. Circles asks a simple but unsettling question: at what point do we stop fighting the cycle and become part of it?

Out Of Sight

2023 • 4 min • Egypt

CONCENTRATE. EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED. EVERYTHING GUIDE US TO BE WHO WE ARE. EVERYTHING GUIDE US TO BE HERE DID YOU FEEL IT?

The Dark Side (Remastered)

2022 • 3 min

The film explores an inner struggle with identity, emotional numbness, and self-alienation. Through fragmented memories and unresolved experiences, the protagonist begins to lose touch with his dreams, passions, and sense of purpose. As pain accumulates, it silently reshapes him into someone ordinary, disconnected, and afraid to confront himself, The story reflects on avoidance, self-justification, and the fear of accountability, questioning whether we are truly flawed or simply lost. At its core, the film is about self-awareness reminding us that failure is human, but surrendering to our darker side is the real loss.

Plastic Heads

2021 • 3 min

The analogy likens plastic pollution to a person wearing a plastic bag on their head, illustrating how our beautiful and clean surroundings are at risk due to plastic contamination. It suggests that every individual space is susceptible to this pollution. The central idea advocates acknowledging our current reality and taking initial steps to improve it, preventing the repetition of the same mistakes for future generations. The proposed solution focuses on starting with a basic action – reducing the use of plastic bags. The concept encourages individuals to recognize their role in the issue and emphasizes that by collectively making small changes, such as eliminating plastic bags, we can free ourselves from the metaphorical plastic mask covering our environment. This approach aims to create awareness and instigate a positive shift toward a cleaner and more sustainable future.

Strangers

2026 • 7 min • Egypt

Strangers is a reflective film that explores memory and the lingering echoes of our last happy moments memories that continue to follow us long after they have passed. The film delves into unfinished dreams and the emotional weight they carry, while observing the current state of the world and the growing difficulty of human connection compared to the past, when interaction felt simpler and more genuine. Through the protagonist’s memories, we witness a time when dreams were modest and people felt familiar. As he comes to understand the reality of the world around him, he finds himself transformed no longer belonging, but becoming a stranger.

Shutter

2026 • 8 min

After discovering the aftermath of an assassination, a photographer attempts to lure the killer into a trap.

Mother's Spring

• 12 min • Canada

As Tết (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) approaches, a young Vietnamese immigrant grapples between the complexities of their culture and transmasculine identity, when pressured by their mother to wear a feminine áo dài dress.

Ba

2026 • 15 min • Canada

As his grandfather falls ill back home, a Vietnamese writer and his emotionally distant father explore the complexities of their relationship and masculinity before it's too late.