Category

Shorts

2,241–2,260 of 2,753 films

  • DEALING WITH WAR

    2022 16+ 1 min

    by Andreas Hykade

    In a deliberately simple style, German filmmaker Andreas Hykade asks an important question: what does absolute power do to us? A short film about two peaceful sheep and a dog on the warpath.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Deadman’s Reach

    2018 Adults 11 min

    by Quentin VIEN

    After falling asleep on the London underground, a man finds himself mysteriously spirited into the desert where he follows an illusive trail of a failed love affair. Through the exploration of song writing, the man eventually reaches catharsis and the acceptance that allows him to move on, and to find his way out of the desert.

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • Dead Reckoning

    2017 16+ 3 min

    by Paul Wenninger, Susan Young

    A mediation on bad luck. Two animated manifestations of one character’s interaction as he follows the maxim: Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Dead Water

    2001 Adults 5 min

    by Tibor Bánóczki

    The protagonist of this psycho-thriller evolving out of picturesque paintings is a crazed station-master living in a dull village in the middle of nowhere.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragedy
  • Days Off

    2018 Adults 11 min

    by Filip Blažek

    Days Off is a short film, an homage to the puppet and city. By combining puppet animation and live action it builds a certain strange kind of reality, a reality that is based in the real world. It is an audiovisual testimony using the language of surrealism, satire, parody, irony and gallows humor, a dark mirror reflecting today’s world.

  • Day, the Chef

    2016 16+ 3 min

    by Xiong Shuyu, Shuyu Xiong

    Living in Beijing, the mega city, everyone is, somehow, being consumed by different kinds of modern civilisation and life format. In metro, bus, office buildings, people are treated like raw materials, cooked into dishes, and placed onto dining table every day and night.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • De profundis

    2002 16+ 3 min

    by Dóra Keresztes

    The visual style of the film is inspired by ancient tribal symbols, which constantly morph into each other. They represent life in a womb-like frame.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Days go by

    1969 16+ 10 min

    by Nedeljko Dragić

    The story of a man who is not allowed by the world around him to live his little simple life…

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Daughter

    2019 All audiences 15 min

    by Daria Kashcheeva

    A girl who was hurt as a child keeps the memory of it alive. Having lacked love and empathy from her father in the past, she is not able to share her feelings with him. She can’t get rid of the painful memories taking her back to the day when she brought home a dead little bird and her father gave…

  • Darkest Valentine

    2017 16+ 3 min

    by Kathrin Steinbacher

    Love has many very dark sides. It is best to whisper them very quietly to ourselves – and those who are ready to listen.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • Darling

    2013 Adults 7 min

    by Izabela Plucinska, Izabela Plucińska

    This latest clay animation from Izabela Plucińska is a captivating picture of the feeling of being lost and alienated and an attempt at putting the pieces that fail to fit together into a whole.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • DANCE WITH THE SEASHELLS!

    2023 Adults 8 min

    by Théo Carme, Julie Fournier, Alessandra Rosmarino & others

    When the Concert-Hall of a small town vanishes, the young singer Erika teams up with Mehdi the mascot to go find it! What will they find on their journey?

    • Drama
  • Dance of Love

    2018 Adults 6 min

    by Leo Černic

    Đulo falls in love with the Great Green Eye.

  • Dannyboy

    2015 16+ 7 min

    by Simon Lynen

    This is a documentary about Dannyboy. A portrait about failure and disappointment. He’s an artist but also an idiot.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • Dancing Songs

    1966 16+ 9 min

    by Zlatko Bourek

    The film was made on the theme of short Slavonic couplets that are still sung today in Slavonia. Two girls, one rich, the other poor and more beautiful, love the same guy. The guy is a little hesitant, but still decides to go with the poor girl. Although the rich woman is insulted, she is quickly comforted by another, moustached, groom.

    • Drama
    • Musical
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Daisy

    2013 Adults 4 min

    by Claire Brognez

    The child has grown up in a womb, sheltered from a world she doesn’t know. A certain outlook about birth and death.

  • Damned

    2011 10+ 9 min

    by Richard Phelan

    An over-ambitious beaver goes too far when he gets the chance to realise his ultimate dream. Some dreams are just too big.

    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy