All Films - Short Movie Database

Sad Mime

2018 • 4 min

a sad mime musters up the courage to go to a theatre audition.

Stardust & Camp

2025 • 12 min • Australia

A wandering cosmonaut interviews artworks in an abstract art gallery, talking about queerness, identity and the artistic process.

Shades of Blue

2025 • 13 min

Taking a moment to look back, longing. These images, the cutouts of life. A quiet absence comes in with the light. Only my inabilities and a glimpse of hope remain.

Secrets

2024 • 35 min • Poland

Dreams and memories interweave to uncover what’s hidden and forgotten. Wandering endlessly, trying to remember and understand.

Fale

2023 • 20 min

Waves crash uncovering portraits of two women. Connected by a fragile rhythm, they move through time, as nightfall slowly sets them apart. A faint memory.

Dystans

2023 • 10 min • Poland

Distance traveled, distant friends, hopes and dreams. Time spent waiting quietly. A sense of incoming change.

Slowly

2023 • 7 min

"Focusing the lens is an act of memory: it is the effort to trace a contour, the effort to ignite – and hence to revitalise. Through the stuttering of a tearful camera, the director strives to renew, to the rhythm of blinking eyes, the memory of his father, clear in the details of a sweater or in the gesture of flipping through a book, but never in his full figure. Kundera, in a book whose title is nearly homonymous with the film (Slowness), wrote that «giving shape to a length of time is the requirement of beauty, but it is also that of memory». Paraphrasing another passage from the book: a man who, while walking, slows down is trying to remember. A man who accelerates is trying to forget. In the effort to slow down an image, this film seems to almost «recognise a sign of happiness»."

Ukryte

2022 • 4 min

Compressed between the barriers of shots, there lies an alliterative rhythm. It rushes and shortens, it hides and reveals. Like a palm, it opens and closes. Like a poem, it waltzes in thousands of inaudible steps. Like a weaving, its calculated movement interlaces light with its absence. Like an orchestra, its heart sinks for a moment, then quakes again, subservient to a mighty man.

Centenário da Minha Bisa

2023 • 8 min

A fictional path gets created between a great granddaughter and her great grandmother from old family pictures. As reality and memories intertwine, the pictures' materiality keeps the deceased elder alive.

Caleidoscópio: Histórias LGBTQIA+

2022 • 30 min

The documentary asks the question: "where are the LGBTQIA+ people in the history of Rio Grande do Sul?"

Explant / implant

2025 • 3 min • United States of America

A lifetime of surgeries continues with an upgrade in battery life and a downgrade in scar tissue.

Sea of Tranquility

2025 • 9 min • Croatia

The film image starts from forgotten family (and archival) materials. In July 1969, the Apollo 11 space mission landed at the location of Mare Tranquillitatis. Who, except lunar explorers, has the right to silence?

Minevissam (I am writing)

2023 • 18 min

and the daughter began to tell a story about seeing when colours remain silent to you about listening, when words refuse blooming anew

Wind up Ghazal

2022 • 4 min

In Dancing Ghazal, Ghazal is the last remaining wind-up ballerina of the toy shop. One day, a little girl searching for a birthday present enters her world, hoping to take her to her own world. But will she be able to leave hers?

The Sparrow is Free

2021 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Through a window into the life of the filmmaker's grandmother, Kohandel's short interview-film explores gender roles in early 20th-century Iran. As a young girl, marriage to her older cousin leads to years of control and frustration. Rebelling against her husband, she eventually relocates to France with her sons, building a new life. As she voices her own story, the film weaves her experiences together into a broader narrative of self-determination. She carves out her independence in suburban Paris and finds comfort in the everyday. A simple kind of happiness follows, the sparrow is free.

Just Another Year

2020 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Just another year documents how a mother and a daughter celebrated Norooz at home, not very differently from the previous years. As they aren’t surrounded by an Iranian community, some of the rituals such as jumping over fire have been adapted to living in a flat. The film looks at the small but important domestic gestures that constitute the setting of the Haft-Sin table, embracing this poetical approach to life which is performed again every spring.

A Departure

2025 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A Departure begins with a question: how do we navigate disappearing rivers, seas, and sources - bodies of water endangered by neo-colonial extraction? The film responds to the call of Sohrab Sepehri’s poem Beyond the Seas and invites viewers to build their own paper boat.