All Films

Swimming Lessons

2026 • 4 min

Swimming Lessons is a machinima film unfolding within Google Maps. Through confessional verse, the narrator maps the sites of a former relationship and its aftermath, using digital cartography to revisit and process desire and shame.

The Zwe

2024 • 6 min • Myanmar

a group of teenagers buys an new apartment, only to be haunted by The Zwe

Overnight Day Dream

2026 • 8 min

The man in the wheelchair gets manipulated with hypnosis and visions at midnight, so the man attempts to escape and get away from all this visions of nightmares.

Antarctica, a legacy mission

2026 • 53 min • France

While emptying her grandparents' house, director Jeanne Lefevre discovers the journal kept by her grandfather during a scientific mission to Adélie Land, French Antarctic Territory, in 1960. Atomic engineer Bruno Parlier had never spoken of this trip to his family. With her archives in hand, Jeanne decides to follow in his footsteps, to Antarctica.

The Fish

2021 • 15 min

A football lover boy, who falls in love with the newcomer girl in the neighborhood, accidentally kills her best friend, which is the fish. Then he breaks some rules for gaining her heart.

Arena

2026 • 5 min • Turkey

ARENA is a high-octane quiz show pulsating with an unrelenting rhythm of light and percussion. In the grand finale, two opposite worlds collide: The prestigious Private Saint Papillon French College, a generational winner, and Demirtaş Külhan Vocational High School, a newcomer fighting for existence. While the scores are tied, the conditions are not. The tension peaks with the final question. What is mere academic knowledge for one student is a harsh, lived reality for the other. As the final bell rings, the boards will reveal not just a winner, but the unbridgeable socioeconomic abyss that separates their lives.

Holy Salt

2026 • 15 min • Indonesia

A broke preacher faking miracles on TikTok accepts a high-paying exorcism job, only to face real evil armed with nothing but coarse salt and lies.

Hanteln für Heten

2026 • 10 min • Germany

The day I licked a pebble

2026 • 6 min • France

One summer afternoon in the countryside, three siblings, tired of being bored at their grandmother’s house, set off for the bakery to buy some snacks.

The Pact

2026 • 25 min

Returning to sell his late father's home, a successful man uncovers the small, unseen ways his father showed love, forcing him to confront the emotional distance between fathers and sons.

Arme Hunde

2026 • 29 min • Austria

A petty criminal couple with relationship problems rob a lonely man in his home. They take a liking to his middle-class lifestyle and decide to stay overnight, until they realize that their hostage would have taken his own life if they hadn't broken in. Suddenly, they find themselves facing each other, each desiring what breaks the other.

Always Was Tonight

2026 • 26 min • Australia

Proud Gamilaroi man Tony Armstrong and a stellar line-up of First Nations talent are set to decolonise the news - one headline at a time. This fast, funny and unflinching special has an agenda to go where no other show dares.

Reflection of a Deadman

2026 • 8 min • France

Haunted by a fleeting encounter, a man becomes consumed by his obsession with a stranger. Drawn deeper into the streets of Paris, he follows the figure through an urban underworld where identity blurs, time fractures, and meaning slips out of reach. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Man of the Crowd," REFLECTION OF A DEADMAN is a hypnotic descent into dissociation, anonymity and the quiet terror of losing yourself while trying to find yourself. Shot on location in the alleys, cemeteries and catacombs of Paris. Watch for free on Film Shortage.

Perfect for everyone

2026 • 7 min • Romania

A young couple of social media influencers, Octav and Lia, pose as the "perfect couple" in front of the camera, filming a reel for Instagram. As the day fades and the artificial light replace the natural light, the filters are off, and behind the smiles, a toxic relationship is revealed.

Hoe Phase

2026 • 5 min • United States of America

A strapped-for-cash pregnant woman tracks down each hookup from the past month to ask a very important question.

Générations burnout

2026 • 43 min

Flachdach

2026 • 9 min • Germany

The Girl Is Taken by Aliens

2026 • 19 min • Germany

"Don't go out on the night of the Ghost Festival." A warning that all children with Chinese mothers are all too familiar with. 18-year-old Ming feels like the only weirdo in the small German town. On this midsummer night, after a disastrous party, she stumbles upon strange beings... In this surreal moment, she realizes who she truly is.

Vintage Lamp Shade

2024 • 6 min

Syd & Tate navigate the meaning of their friendship while finding ways to spend their day in rural America.

Toilet Movie

2026 • 2 min • United States of America

A series of scenes between two roommates all taking place in their shared bathroom.

A. will raus (über Neutralität)

2026 • 18 min • Austria

Don't Let Go

2024 • 13 min • Germany

Amir and Anouk return home after their first vacation together. In the throes of love, they believe that nothing can destroy their happiness. But then they are stopped by the police - and nothing is as it was before.

Every Time I Look at You

2026 • 19 min • Germany

Aaron, a young African-American, falls in love with Larissa, a German white woman. But as soon as she tells him that she is pregnant, things begin to fall apart and Aaron has to face his past.

Arcadia Bay

2015 • 30 min

A resident of the beautiful and peaceful town of Arcadia Bay sees haunting visions and sets out to discover what they mean. After searching he finds the man from his vision and together they set out to discover what the visions mean.