Short
see all genres ›Short films are exactly what their name implies: they're shorter than a feature! They can be as brief as a handful of seconds or they can approach as much as a half-hour (or more). Genres like silent comedy and avant-garde film thrive in the short format.
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SUB-GENRES · Actuality · Documentary · Ephemera · Narrative · Non-Narrative · Performance · Trick
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Draw Hard
DRAW HARD is a documentary about illustrator and comic book artist, John G. In Cleveland, his artwork is everywhere, but most don't know the face behind the gritty imagery of "The Lake Erie Monster" comic series and Melt Bar and Grilled. In this short documentary, director Jon Nix turns his...Watch Movie
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Crime Scene Greenpoint
On the morning of May 2, 2006 a fire broke out in the Greenpoint Terminal Market. The blaze spread so quickly that the Fire Commissioner immediately suspected arson. After the ten alarm fire was put out the block was shut down as investigators combed the site for evidence....Watch Movie
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Black Orpheus and That Bossa Nova Sound!
Diving into a wave of Brazilian popular music of the 1960s (and beyond), BLACK ORPHEUS AND THAT BOSSA NOVA SOUND includes interviews with jazz historian Gary Giddins and Brazilian author Ruy Castro as they discuss the history and influences behind the BLACK ORPHEUS soundtrack.Watch Movie
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Drift and Bough
Lynne Sachs spends a winter morning in Central Park shooting film in the snow. Holding her Super 8mm camera, she takes note of graphic explosions of dark and light and an occasional skyscraper. The stark black lines of the trees against the whiteness create the sensation of a painter's...Watch Movie
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Adirake
When the 2004 tsunami in Thailand took the lives of his family, Adirake, a boy on the verge of adulthood, must learn to adapt to his new life in an orphanage. Recalling the myths his mother would tell him, he searches for a mysterious white elephant, but instead discovers a friendship that...Watch Movie
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Coney
When an argument between the newly married Alice and Jason goes too far, Jason tries to make up for his temper by taking Alice to Coney Island. With the park on the verge of closing for the season, the couple meander along the boardwalk and both begin to realize that some things can never be...Watch Movie
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Epilogue
At the end of his greatest adventure, Skillman has vanquished his nemesis, recovered the priceless artifact and saved his latest lover from certain doom. But as he struggles to figure out what comes next, his lady begins to realize her confident, capable man hasn't the first clue what to do once...Watch Movie
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Tiempo al tiempo
Sometimes you have to tell a lie to realize the truth. And so it goes for Jesus, an aging immigrant cook living and working in New York. As the years have passed he now longs to return home and retire. However, he has become close friends with his co-worker and roommate,...Watch Movie
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Huntingdon's Hero
HUNTINGDON'S HERO is a "local talent film" made in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. The good-natured and charming HUNTINGDON'S HERO was made in the eponymous central Pennsylvania college town by Donald Newland, an itinerant filmmaker active in the 1920s through the mid-1930s, who...Watch Movie
