Short films that I've seen
I don't rate shorts, so instead I'm going to make a list that over time will include every short I can recall seeing, from Pixar to obscure film festival to student film. If you recommend any please comment below or tweet @DrivingNelson
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- DirectorBob CelliStarsClaudio Brovedani NutiEllinore CarrabbaValerie SmaldoneA world at war. A brother and sister. A day that changed their family forever.
- DirectorAmanda ForbisWendy TilbyStarsAdam BlackwoodLuba GoyAnthony BekennCalgary, 1909. An Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.
- DirectorJacqueline AndradeMark CiraStarsEthan MitchellBlake and Lilly travel up north to a cottage for a couples getaway in hopes of rekindling their partnership.
- DirectorAlina GurinovaStarsMarta TonioloMelissa (18) and Pietro(22) are brothers. After their father left the family they lived years of depression with a mother who wasn't always capable to follow them. This event caused in both of them a lot of problems, that somehow the are trying to resolve and grow up...In two different ways.
- DirectorIhab MardiniIt's just a game, and they are the toys... A journey into the life span of toy soldiers with an abstract reflection to reality.
- DirectorSusanne BoeingStarsHermann BeyerYorck DippeNagmeh AlaeiWalter is waiting at the last station of his journey through life. His family and friends all know what is best for him. But ultimately they must understand that his ending belongs only to him.
- DirectorCaleb B. KuntzUncertain, TX is a beautifully ephemeral look at the dynamic relationship of nature and man within context of the small North Eastern Texas town. In a terrain conceivably alien to the state of Texas, Uncertain lies on the only natural body of water within the state. Caddo Lake is a spectacle to behold as it brings to mind prehistoric notions of dinosaurs roaming the Earth. Paralleling Caddo Lake, Uncertain, offer timeless glimpses into years long past embodying the tone and mentality of the turn of the 20th century in the rural south; simple living centered around a slow pace of survival. Through observational footage, cinema verite style documentation, and an unorthodox triptych visual style, Uncertain, TX is an immersive experience unto its own.
- DirectorSean O'NeillA stray puppy suddenly appears to brighten up a lonely boy's world. The two enjoy a long-lasting companionship as they grow old together.
- DirectorDan CarrStarsDan CarrChristine ElliottTara EmersonDaniel meets Mary at Bible Camp. Daniel develops a crush on her, and after the camps dance he is coerced by Mary into having sex.As camp draws to a close, Daniel attempts to reconcile the event that has hurt his faith and his relationship with Mary, who has become increasingly distant.
- DirectorH. Nelson TraceyStarsMichael HeimosAndrew MoorheadTai UrbanA former bowling prodigy returns home to his estranged father's run down bowling alley to claim what he believes is his.
- DirectorH. Nelson TraceyStarsBrendan CaltonMeredith Riley StewartVarda AppletonA naïve high school boy is forced by his mother to find a summer job at the only place he can find a job: a sex shop.
- DirectorZach WechterStarsShamar SandersDanièle WattsJules TheodoreStraight Down Low is a neo-noir, set in the inner city. A shrewd high school detective must solve a curious gangland crime to protect the girl he loves.
- DirectorHarrison GivensStarsChris VossAli HillMarkus SilbigerAfter the death of his father, Henry Fleetwood embarks on a whimsical journey to find the meaning of life and death.
- DirectorDoug SweetlandA stage magician's rabbit gets into a magical onstage brawl against his neglectful guardian with two magic hats.
- DirectorJon DewarStarsMichelle DuncanGreg ProfitFragments of a love story set to the backdrop of winter, 'Hypothermia' follows Harper and Verity as they reflect on their relationship while trying to find each other in a snowy forest.
- DirectorMorgana McKenzieStarsRosie VictoriaConnor AdsettAinsley BurnsideIn the timeless world of fairy tales, villains and victims are visited by a vengeful fairy who offers to shift the balance of power.
- DirectorHannah McDonaldStarsMike BobbittChantel CagleLeeann DowdA man makes a wish that he could be happy again, like he was as a kid, and wakes up to find that the world has turned into children.
- DirectorMorgan PetersonStarsDamián DelgadoSophia Flot-WarnerCarey FoxLucy Swan is a college freshman who is raped at a party. Consequently Lucy suffers from anxiety disorder and feels abandoned by an ineffectual system. A few years later Lucy has become a successful lawyer, but when she's forced to confront her past, will she finally break her silence?
- DirectorTeddy CecilStarsBarrett JamesDennis KeifferDio JohnsonOne worker sparks a revolution when he attempts to break free of his dystopian underworld.
- DirectorCarlos Alonso OjeaStarsEduard BuchLeticia DoleraBea and Alan live in a bunker. She wants to have a child. He does not. They manage to live as comfortable as they can, trying to understand each other, sheltered from an apocalyptic world. Their food resources are not going to last much longer. Soon they will have to face their biggest fear: going outside the bunker.
- DirectorDaniel RuczkoStarsKenneth MillerJodi Lynn ThomasKristen DeVore RakesA young woman wakes up and finds a photo of herself sleeping on her phone, she lives alone.
- DirectorPatrick HodgsonStarsBenjamin BlaisJessica PontesBeing lonely makes Zep go a little...crazy.
- DirectorRick HarperLaurence WrightStarsBob AndersonHans ConriedMitchell GiannunzioIs both documentary and parody of model train hobby enthusiast. Beginning with a history lesson for the model train hobby and then transitioning into a how-to film on creating one's own model train fantasy layout, the film takes a turn as the lead character becomes fully engulfed in the fantasy world of model railroading. Between a full-on dancing girls extravaganza to an "edge of your seat" action film, the film proves that playing with trains is a form of pure escapism for kids of every age.
- DirectorSanjay PatelStarsBrent SchraffSunny Singh AttarArun RaoSanjay loves cartoons and comics, while his father tries to draw him into his Hindu traditions. Reluctance turns into awe-inspiring adventure as the boy embarks on an amazing journey, returning with a new perspective they can both embrace.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsJason SchwartzmanNatalie PortmanWaris AhluwaliaA prologue of one heart-breaking history of love and the prologue of the travel told in The Darjeeling Limited (2007).
- DirectorNick ParkStarsPeter SallisPeter HawkinsGromit butts heads with a mysterious penguin lodger, who hatches a sinister scheme involving the ex-NASA Techno Trousers that have been modified by Wallace for walkies.
- DirectorJan PinkavaStarsBob PetersonGeri sets up a chess game to play his greatest opponent - himself.
- DirectorNick ParkStarsPeter SallisPeter HawkinsTo replenish their depleted supply of cheese, inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit travel to the moon in a homemade rocket-ship.
- DirectorNick ParkStarsPeter SallisSally LindsaySarah LabordeWallace and his dog, Gromit, open a bakery and get tied up with a murder mystery. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case.
- DirectorNick ParkStarsPeter SallisAnne ReidJustin FletcherWallace's whirlwind romance with the owner of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin; Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.
- DirectorTerry GeorgeStarsAnthony BrophyConleth HillPacky LeeThe story of Joe and Paddy, whose childhood friendship is shattered by the troubles in Northern Ireland. Twenty five years later they are reunited.
- DirectorSean AstinStarsAndrew LesniePraphaphorn 'Fon' ChansantorPaul RandallA workman gets some unexpected help from two people of vastly different sizes.
- DirectorAdam DavidsonStarsScotty BlochClebert FordBernard JohnsonA woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.
- DirectorChuck JonesBen WashamStarsBoris KarloffJune ForayDal McKennonA grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
- DirectorJake SchreierStarsChristopher FordChristopher Ford builds a time machine to go back and prevent himself from buying a movie ticket.
- DirectorSol FriedmanStarsRazie BrownstoneA short doc following an elderly Jewish woman as she tries bacon for the first time.Sundance 2016
- DirectorPatrick BresnanIvete LucasEmboldened by a giant block party on the evening of their high school prom, a group of students enter the night with the hope of transcending their rural town and the industrial landscape that surrounds them.Sundance 2016
- DirectorKhaldiya JibawiFor three months, a group of Syrian girls living in Jordan's Za'atari Refugee Camp participated in a media workshop to document their everyday lives - how it looks, feels and sounds from the ground, at the heart of their world. This video was filmed by Khaldiya, 17, from Dara'a, Syria. This video was filmed by Khaldiya, 17, from Dara'a, Syria.Sundance 2016
- DirectorLoïc DarsesStarsLucie Simone TremblayDecember the 31th, 2003. Lucie decides to write a letter to the man who abused her from the age of 8 to 12 years old and resolves herself to bring it to him in person, wherever he may be.Sundance 2016
- DirectorJayson SimbaStarsMarisa Nicole BrownPatrick ConnersJeanne QuinnA young man awakens to find himself locked in a cage in a dark and dingy basement unable to recall the events that led him there. After being confronted by the man responsible for entrapping him, he realizes all is not what it seems and must find a way to escape or face inevitable death.Sundance 2016
- DirectorSantiago MenghiniTravel along with the Voyager spacecrafts as they traverse the solar system on their planetary expedition spanning over three decades.
- DirectorVisa SuonpääPatrik SöderlundIn a twilight world long after the age of Man, a twisted ecosystem centred around an overgrown fruit tree undergoes parasitic and geological transformations as hours, years and aeons pass.
- DirectorTerence NanceStarsVickie WashingtonDarielle WilliamsA visual essay based on a script by Norvis Jr.
- DirectorBridey ElliottStarsBud CortBridey ElliottRob Michael HugelA comedy about isolation and loneliness, Affections follows a young woman, adrift, seeking intimacy in the most unlikely places.Sundance 2016
- DirectorAndrew LaurichStarsJohn EnnisStephen EllisEmily RandallA desperate son reconnects with his estranged father to ask an unspeakable favor that will change their lives forever.Sundance 2016
- DirectorEleanor MortimerA warm and lyrical film following a group of unruly monkeys in Gibraltar, and the people employed to control them with peashooters.Sundance 2016
- DirectorFyzal BoulifaStarsZehra ZorbaDemilade AdesanyaAlex AkindejiA portrait of teen escort, 'Coco'.Sundance 2016
- DirectorDrew ChristieStarsIndia'yolanda CollinsRichard EvansHugh RossThe story of the first motion pictures ever photographed as told by the son of Eadweard Muybridge.Sundance 2016
- DirectorAndrej LandinStarsPeter ArpesellaAleksandr KhachatryanTatiana NevaAlexander, a lone cosmonaut, is adrift in orbit around Earth. He has lost communications and life-support systems are dwindling fast. At the same time in Italy, a radio engineer is working the night shift. He discovers a voice amidst the empty static. It is Alexander's emergency transmission, carried across space from his dying capsule. Over one night these two men are bonded, but their new found friendship, might not last the night.
- DirectorVincent ToujasStarsCamille Durand-TovarThéo FriletAnnabelle HettmannMaria and Jonathan meet after witnessing a car crash. Despite an instant attraction, Jonathan will have to come to terms with a strange companion who has invaded Maria's life for too long: "ELLE".
- DirectorSteven BiverStarsDaniel WylandFrom San Quentin's death row, a convicted killer tells the gripping, tragic story of his life and crimes. When the day of his execution arrives, something extraordinary happens and the space between life and death isn't so clear.
- DirectorJulian HigginsStarsRaymond J. BarryVincent KartheiserQ'orianka KilcherWhen an aging college professor confronts two hunters trespassing on his property, he begins an escalating battle of wills that will test his faith in everything he holds dear. Adapted from a short story by acclaimed author James Lee Burke, WINTER LIGHT is a modern-day revisionist Western set in the frozen wilderness of Montana.
- DirectorDavid VictoriStarsRyan EggoldFelix AvitiaDavid AtkinsonA boy and his father are emotionally and physically separated on the day earth intermittently loses gravity.
- DirectorJustin CliftonIn Southeastern Utah, one of the last major wild places remaining in the lower 48 sits teetering on a precipice of rampant industrial development. Home to some of the most stunning landscapes in the world, the Greater Canyonlands Region has become the playground of adventurous souls who love and appreciate the wonder of wild places. It has also become the target of greedy industrialists, who threaten to turn our treasured parks into islands, our canyons into roaring hydrocarbon highways and our rivers into endangered arteries among vast swaths of oil and gas development, uranium and potash mining and, potentially, tar sands development bordering Canyonlands National Park. Will we have the determination to protect these treasured landscapes?
- DirectorElias MatarStarsElias Matar'Flight of The Refugees' documents the harrowing journey of various families as they cross the Macedonian border from Greece to Germany. Over seven thousand refugees start this journey everyday seeking asylum in Western Europe. We bare witness to six of those days.
- DirectorRichard CousinsStarsGina BramhillSimon BubbMax CormacA young soldier and his experiences in the First World War. It highlights the hardships and horrors faced by many young men who served in the Army during that time. Based on true events.
- DirectorErnest MillsStarsLorna Nickson BrownJamie ChandlerBeth CookeChronicles of Courage consists of filmed performance, archive, animation and music to represent three contrasting experiences of World War One (WW1). The experiences were sourced and interpreted from three very personal, unique perspectives. Firstly from the letters and beautifully illustrated diaries of a field hospital Red Cross Nurse, Margaret Gregg, receiving wounded soldiers by train from the front line. Secondly from the letters and newspaper articles written by her brother, Arthur Gregg, from the French trenches. And thirdly through the poems of Arthur's fiance, Marian Allen, who wrote Arthur many poems throughout the war and continued to write to him many years after his death.
- DirectorMatt EdwardsStarsFrederick LauWyatt RussellBrian CeponisTrapped behind German lines in the closing months of WWII, an American takes a young German hostage and forces him to lead the way back to safety.
- DirectorJames PaulStarsMiroslav BabuskýJohn Paul FrankePavol GrecoCzechoslovakia - 1958 - how a defining moment can affect a family, a country, and one man's lifetime seen through the eyes of a Czechoslovakian track runner on the day of the biggest race of his life.
- DirectorTracy BoydStarsMackenzie PhillipsGlenn ScarpelliStephen WallemMarco's not living his life. When a surprise visit from his past turns his world upside down, he might just discover what's been holding him back all this time.
- DirectorMike MillsStarsElise LappinKelli GarnerSusan FallenderDissatisfied with life at home, a young girl travels through other residences in her suburban neighborhood. She does what all of us would like to do: experience the domestic stories being played out by our neighbors. This tale is a voyeurist's paradise.
- DirectorMike MillsStarsDeanna TempletonEd TempletonA documentary on skateboarder and artist, Ed Templeton and his wife Deanna.
- DirectorMike JohnsonStarsLes ClaypoolMark HaggardBrian KehoeCharlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" covered and put to animation.
- DirectorMaxwell MorroStarsEdwin Modlin IISummer SpiroJohn MyersHidden within a remote facility, a determined scientist and a security escort are threatened by an unrelenting outside force.
- DirectorElias MatarStarsQuinn LarsonDavid HyattRoberta OrlandiThe province of Messiah was once rich and prosperous in agricultural land. At some point in time, clowns and mimes rolled in, bringing the joy and wonder of a circus big top. Upon the last evening, while everyone watched, a small group of clowns stormed and looted the province of Messiah. The clowns enjoyed themselves so much that they never left. What followed was the organization of the clowns and mimes. They offered protection to Messiah's citizens in exchange for money. The mimes began to gather amongst themselves. They felt oppressed, so they rebelled. This was the beginning of Messian War between the clowns and the mimes. This war has raged for decades and there seems to be no end in sight. Now a man named Chinaco whose parents were victims of the ruthless clown boss, Bastard the Clown, must become what he hates most. In order to avenge the death of his parents -- and possibly end the brutal war between the mimes and the clowns -- He must become... CHINGASO THE CLOWN
- DirectorAvery RimerStarsDavid Aaron BakerJohn Bedford LloydTwo brothers take a drive and notice a myriad of small, beautiful things rendered all the more exquisite by the older brother's terminal illness.
- DirectorAndrew SchwarzStarsNick AdamsonPetra DenisonMarlena HolmanA recently divorced family, comprised of a mother, father, and little girl, struggle to assimilate to their new lives. The girl, Abigail, resorts to surprising alternative methods to cope.
- DirectorAri GibsonEddie WhiteStarsNick CaveA city of singing cats is preyed upon by a shadowy figure intent on performing a twisted feline symphony.
- DirectorJoseph KahnStarsKatee SackhoffJames Van Der BeekRuss BainA dark and gritty re-imagining of the classic franchise.
- DirectorBen HowlingYolanda RamkeStarsAndy RodoredaAlison GallagherRuth VennStranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect his infant daughter.