The Masterpiece, directed and written by Alex Lora Cercos was awarded the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The short film follows a wealthy couple who meets two scrap dealers at a recycle center. Offering them more junk the wealthy couple invites them to their mansion, but the immigrants actually might be the ones with something she wants.
The European Film Academy revealed the nominees of the categories “European Animated Feature Film” and “European Short Film”.
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the winners of the 2023 MIFF Shorts Awards.
Toronto International Film Festival announced this year’s Short Cuts lineup of 42 live action narrative, documentary, and animated shorts – boasting more than half directed or co-directed by female and female-identifying filmmakers. Stars in this year’s slate of new shorts include Riz Ahmed (DAMMI) and Kaniehtiio Horn (Redlights).
In the Oscar®-nominated HBO documentary short How Do You Measure A Year?, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt (HBO’s Oscar®-nominated “When We Were Bullies,” “Phantom Limb,” “The Darkness of Day,” “Human Remains”) documents his daughter Ella’s growth over 17 years – from age 2 to age 18.
1 1 short films from 12 countries: Argentina, Colombia, Spain, the United States, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Iceland, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom and Ukraine, will be presented in Competition at this years 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
The 2023 Tribeca Festival taking place June 7-18, revealed its lineup of short narrative, documentary, and animated films, as well as music videos.
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, the Spanish western short film Strange Way of Life will world premiere as an Official Selection of 76th Cannes Film Festival. This short is the filmmaker’s second English-language experience, after The Human Voice in 2020. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, Pedro Casablanc, Manu Ríos, George Steane, José Condessa, Jason Fernández, Sara Sálamo, Ohiana Cueto, and Daniela Medina.
HBO Documentary Films has acquired How Do You Measure a Year?, the Academy Award- nominated documentary short on father-daughter relationship, from longtime HBO collaborator Jay Rosenblatt (HBO’s “When We Were Bullies,” “Phantom Limb,” “The Darkness of Day,” “Human Remains”).
Portuguese director, animator, and illustrator João Gonzalez’s Cannes winner Ice Merchant is the year’s most award-winning animated short film. The film is nominated at 95th Academy Awards® for Best Animated Short Film for João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano and is also nominated for Best Short Subject at 50th Annie Awards.
64 short films from 29 countries screen in the three competition sections of the 35th edition of Filmfest Dresden taking place April, 18 to 23, 2023 in Dresden, Germany.
