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All Short Films (15-30 min) A-Z

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  • A Long Winter

    -- Dir. Eilidh Munro - 16min - 2022 - Scotland --

    Innes spends another bleak winter in the Scottish Highlands, relentlessly killing deer. Over the past twenty years he has planted over a million trees, working towards a 200-yearlong vision. But he knows this landscape needs death if life is eve...

  • Beyond the North Winds: A Post Nuclear Reverie

    Dir. Natalie Cubides-Brady - 2019 - UK

    Beyond the North Winds: A Post Nuclear Reverie is a hybrid documentary about the decommissioning of a nuclear plant in Scotland. It traces the journey of man who disappeared while writing a report on the reactor. Concerned with landscape and time, myth and ...

  • Blu

    Dir. Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti - 2018 - Italy - Language: Italian - Subtitles: English

    The film takes us on a nocturnal and subterranean journey inside the TBM, the tunnel boring machine used to dig tunnels and subways all over the world. The departure of the TBM from one station and its...

  • Burning Land

    Dir. Juan Camilo Olmos Feris - 2019 - Colombia

    In northern Colombia there is a popular version of the Spanish bullfight: the ‘corraleja’, an overcrowded spectacle where the most prestigious cattlemen of the region choose their wildest bulls to confront a group of brave voluntary men. As the bras...

  • Concrete Forms of Resistance

    Dir. Nick Jordan - 2019 - UK

    Filmed in Lebanon, Concrete Forms of Resistance is a documentary centred upon the abandoned ‘Permanent International Fair’ in Tripoli, designed by the Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer in the mid-1960s. The film presents themes of progress and crisis, labour and cap...

  • Currents

    Dir. Katerina Duda - 2019 - Croatia

    The plants are the only ones remaining in the vacant business building. In this large and once lavish space, the gardener still maintains the plants, which have become part of its architecture. She sifts through the ones in pots and prepares them for their rel...

  • Empty Hours

    -- Dir. Judith Longuet-Marx - 2023 - 26min - Belgium --

    In a retirement home of a small village in the South of France, residents try to build a society in this anonymous environment, often perceived as hostile. What ties do they still manage to forge? What remedies do they find to cope with lon...

  • Hotel Astoria

    Dir. Alina Cyranek, Falk Schuster - 2020 - Germany

    Leipzig, GDR, 1980s: The Hotel Astoria is a magical, almost sacred place. Business people, prostitutes, the elite of the Socialist Party, and from time to time ordinary people meet here. But lobster, salmon and caviar are not always on the menu ...

  • Hydebank

    Dir. Ross McClean - 2019 - UK & Northern Ireland

    Governing the Northern Irish countryside, Hydebank Wood currently houses 104 young male offenders. Ryan, currently serving a 10 year sentence, has formed an unlikely bond with the prison's flock of sheep. Through their interactions, Ryan attempts ...

  • I Don't Feel at Home Anywhere Anymore

  • Indietracks

    Dir. Jeanie Finlay - 30min - 2016 - UK

    In 2007 an indiepop music festival was born in the unlikeliest of settings - a heritage steam train site, Butterley Derbyshire.

    Bringing together passionate characters from two very distinct worlds this affectionate portrait is told from the point of view...

  • La Bestia - Train of the Unknowns

    Dir. Manuel Inacker - 23min - 2018 - Germany - Language: Spanish - Subtitles: English

    In 'Casa del Migrante' in Huehutoca, a suburb of Mexico City, refugees find a safe abode. At least for two days. Then they must go on with their journey towards USA in freight train carriages, which everyone he...

  • Le Grand Viveur

    Dir. Perla Sardella - 2020 - Italy

    Mario Lorenzini was a working class man, a hiker, a hunter, and a member of the Italian Walser community. In the 70s, he bought a super8 camera and started shooting home-movies with it. Through his lens we experience the seasons passing by in Priami, a small vi...

  • Lift

    Dir. Marc Isaacs - 24min - 2001 - UK

    When filmmaker, Marc Isaacs, decided to make a documentary about a lift in a London tower block he had no idea how the residents would react and what they would reveal of their lives. He simply set himself up in the lift with his camera and waited for the rig...

  • Made in Chinafrica

    Dir. David Lalé & Sam Hopkins - Animation: Vamos - 2019 -UK

    An animated documentary exploring the precarious lives of African migrants seeking their fortunes in China.

    Africans are flocking to the Chinese export city of Guangzhou, the centre of a booming global market in counterfeit goods. MADE...

  • Marc Isaacs - Interview about Lift

  • Mars, Oman

    Dir. Vanessa del Campo - 20min - 2019 - Belgium - Language: Arabic, English - Subtitles available in: English, French, Spanish

    An old Bedouin riding his camel can’t believe his eyes: a woman dressed in silvery armour and a bizarre helmet is studying an insignificant rock. Astronauts in the deser...

  • Murderabilia

    Dir. Nora Mandray - 2023 - 15min - France

    $1,650 for a bullet? The day mass shooting survivor Carli turns to the murderabilia market to make ends meet, she sets out on a unique path to recovery...

    Somewhere in Colorado, mass shooting survivor Carli hustles to pay for her piling medical bills. A...

  • My Name is Anik

    Dir. Bircan Birol - 2019 - UK

    Anik is the only one in the family who can speak Kurdish, the once-forbidden language in Turkey. Since she didn't want her family to suffer as she did, she buried Kurdish in her village 54 years ago, and didn't teach it to anyone in the family. Anik has been forget...

  • No Man's Land

    Dir. Charlotte Müller - 2019 - Belgium, France

    Two single women in their forties are travelling by train between France and Belgium. Lou is going to illegally get an artificial insemination with a donor in Belgium, and Véronique is the mother of a little girl she had from the same process, legal...

  • Once Upon A Vilnius

    Dir. Eitvydas Doskus - 23min - 2022 - Lithuania

    Vilnius is a city of notable historical heritage and unique character currently undergoing considerable changes. Some of the life fragments our camera has recorded are no more. The film, therefore, is a testimony to that which has faded into oblivi...

  • Our Fathers

    Dir. Kieran Hennigan, Zoe Hunter Gordon - Producer: Noe Mendelle - 2020 - Scotland

    In 2015 the Bishop of Aberdeen wrote to the Bishop of Aba in Nigeria with an urgent request – do you have any spare priests? Father Maximilian Nwosu and Father James Anyaegbu are the answer: two Nigerians sent on ...

  • Suddenly, A Strike

    Dir. Ruth Beckermann, Josef Aichholzer - 1977 - Austria

    In the Semperit tyre factory, the only strike after World War II takes place in May 1978, lasting for three weeks. The film shows the course of the strike in interviews, photos, graphics and talks at a pub; it draws attention to the positio...

  • The Holiday Inn-Side

    Dir. Charby Ibrahim - 2018 - Australia - Language: English

    A 16-year-old in a secure facility awaits sentencing, to be determined once the gravity of the offence reveals itself. Animated and anonymous, the subject invites the viewer into his dilemma.

    "Having worked in a juvenile detention centr...