Short Film Tag Archive

Live Action

Riley Donigan Manifests Mental Anguish Through Grotesque Body Horror in His Profoundly Human Short ‘Shithead’

Riley Donigan explains how he utilised slow zooms, frenetic editing and prosthetics to express a struggling young man's accelerating descent into madness.

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Film Festival, Sponsored

Get Stuck Into These 10 Outstanding Short Films Screening at the 2025 Edition of Bolton International Film Festival

With a varied, engrossing programme sure to delight one and all playing at Bolton Film Festival next month, DN compiles our list of 10 choice, riveting shorts.

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Live Action, Premiere

Albert Bullock’s ‘Love Is Real’ Replaces Cinematic Romanticism With a Striking Dissection of the Nature of Love

Following a split, a disconnected couple set out to confront the mechanics of intimacy in Albert Bullock's compelling exploration of modern connection.

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Film Festival, Sponsored

9 Spellbinding Shorts Screening at Conero Film + ADV 2025

As we eagerly await the 3rd edition of Conero Film + ADV DN takes a deep dive into the official selections which demonstrate impact both on-screen & off.

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Live Action, Premiere

Joshua Elias Palmer Carves a Tender, Sombre Portrait of Filial Sacrifice in the Starkly Beautiful and Silent ‘Coda’

Joshua Elias Palmer discusses employing a constrained, anamorphic frame to mirror the emotional confines of a son’s sacrificial caregiving.

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Animation, Documentary

How Do You Animate an Orgasm? Inside Bronwen Parker-Rhodes’ Bold Descriptive Documentary ‘COME’

Rejecting digital perfection, Bronwen Parker-Rhodes details creating a work of intimate revelation and radical honesty through animation and visceral clarity.

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Art & Fashion

Luke White Opens up a Channel Between Past and Present in Hypnotic Emotionally Charged Dance Short ‘Boy Inside’

Luke White discusses using insects and meteorological balloons as metaphors for internal struggle and catharsis in his kinetic films.dance short.

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Change Her RCA Short Film

Animation, Film Festival

The Future of Animation: Six Standout Short Films from the 2025 RCA Grad Show

From bold visuals to inventive storytelling, here are six standout films from the 2025 RCA Show that feel destined for the festival circuit.

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Live Action

The Weight of Horrifc Unspoken Trauma Crushes Small Shoulders in Lado Kvataniya’s Campaign Short ‘Haqqim Bor’

Lado Kvataniya unpacks his visceral, haunting metaphor of childhood trauma where children carry the weight of abuse as literal buildings on their backs.

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Live Action, Premiere

Desire’s Unstoppable Pulse Thrums Through Julia Ponce Díaz & Nico Blanco’s Raucous ‘Cowboy, Choker, Harness & Heart’

Julia Ponce Díaz & Nico Blanco pull back the curtain on their racy queer short, where a bathroom stall takes centre stage at a neon-drenched rave.

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Live Action, Premiere

Mateo Martinez Weaves Ancestral Ghosts and Emerald Greed Into a Hypnotic Columbian Allegory in ‘Cacique del Monte’

Mateo Martinez depicts the emerald trade through myth & violence as a thief's greed awakens a mountain's curse, binding past to present in sacred green fire.

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Live Action

A Charity Shop Transaction Spirals Into Surreal Chaos in Ken Abalos & Ash Meshkati’s Unpredictable Comedy ‘Easy Sell’

Ken Abalos and Ash Meshkati reveal how a mundane charity shop became a stage for absurd comedy, using ad-world precision to craft every cringe-worthy moment.

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