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The Streaming Platform Of The European Short Film Network. Subscribe At thisisshort.com THIS IS SHORT is back! Ab 1.

The second edition of THIS IS SHORT, the European streaming platform for exceptional short films, is already in the starting blocks. Beginning at midnight on April 1, we will again present a carefully selected program for three months. And like last year, the portal also allows access to offerings from the four participating film festivals.

[DE]

THIS IS SHORT ist zurück! Die zweite Ausgabe von

THIS IS SHORT, der europäischen Streamingplattform für außergewöhnliche Kurzfilme, steht bereits in den Startlöchern. April um Mitternacht werden wir wieder für drei Monate sorgfältig ausgewähltes Programm präsentieren. Und wie im vergangenen Jahr erlaubt das Portal auch den Zugriff auf Angebote der vier beteiligten Filmfestivals.

[PL]

THIS IS SHORT powraca! Druga edycja THIS IS SHORT, europejskiej platformy streamingowej pełnej wyjątkowych filmów krótkometrażowych jest już w blokach startowych! Od północy 1 kwietnia przez trzy miesiące zaprezentujemy starannie wyselekcjonowany program filmowy. Podobnie jak w ubiegłym roku, portal umożliwi również dostęp do oferty filmowej czterech festiwali tworzących platformę.

[NL]

THIS IS SHORT is terug! De tweede editie van THIS IS SHORT, het Europese streaming platform voor bijzondere korte films, staat in de startblokken. We trappen af op 1 april om middernacht en presenteren wederom een zorgvuldig geselecteerd programma voor drie maanden. Vergelijkbaar met de vorig editie biedt het platform ook toegang tot aanbod van de vier aangesloten festivals.

30/12/2024

New program for kids and families! 🪢

Communities, there are so many and they are so varied. This program takes a look at this diversity: What communities can exist? How are they organized? What are their difficulties? One thing is for sure: Community is a powerful thing that can create and destroy! Have fun! Be amazed! Be community!

COMMUNITY is a program curated by IndieLisboa International Film Festival at thisisshort.com!

21/12/2024

It’s Short Film Day! 🪅Films For The Shortest Day Of The Year

December 21 is the shortest day of the year and is celebrated worldwide with numerous short film festivities. For this occasion, we are delighted to present some short film favorites from the participating festivals. The films will remain online from December 20, 2024 until January 20, 2025 and can be celebrated more than once, since December 28 is another occasion to honor the short film form: National Short Film Day enjoys special significance in the USA, as this day in 1895 is considered the birth of cinema with the first ever film screening in France.

CELEBRATING SHORT FILM DAY is now streaming at thisisshort.com!

19/12/2024

New program! 🌟 Celebrating The Special Season

When the taste of hot cocoa, the smell of gingerbread and the calm silence of winter warm us from the inside, we know that holiday season is here! And what would the holidays be without movies? In FILMS FOR THE HOLIDAYS, we’ve put together five short films for this special time—and they’re sure to get the family talking.

Watch before January 9 at thisisshort.com!

13/12/2024

WELCOME. by Davorin Marc 🌲

land) (scape
(Stop motion animation puts the forest landscape into motion, which, stripped of its specific contours, becomes a dynamic abstract structure. The absence of sound emphasizes the perception of the forest not as a definite object, but as a set of shapes and colors.)

Curated by Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. Watch at thisisshort.com!

10/12/2024

New program! 🥁

Some of the IndieLisboa audience’s favorite films over the last 20 years. Happy memories on Guaxuma beach, a poetic and comic portrait of John Clancy, a Belfast bookseller, a dive into complex Romanian family relationships and bureaucracy, the frustrating s*x and love life of a single mum with young children and childhood memories in the former Zaire, now Congo.

CROWD PLEASERS put together five short films curated by IndieLisboa International Film Festival.

Watch before February 5 at thisisshort.com!

29/11/2024

New program for kids and families! 🦞

Can we eat with our eyes? How can toys and games acquire smells and flavors? What if the fishes in the fishmonger dream of a life that ends differently than being eaten in a restaurant? FOOD IS SO GOOD brings together four short films in which the main reference is food, films for everyone and films to whet your appetite!

Curated by IndieLisboa International Film Festival and at thisisshort.com!

28/11/2024

SHORT TRIP by Cassandra Offenberg 📼 A film about the sense of immortality felt by a group of young boys who have recently lost one of their friends. During a short trip, they seem to explore every inch of life. But how does the confrontation with death echo in their lives?

Curated by Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen. Watch until May at thisisshort.com!

26/11/2024

New program! 🪐

Colliding With Reality
It is at this time of the year, pumpkin spice latte in hand, that we enter into a collision with reality––veiled in a thin shroud, seeping through cracks and crevices, always present but invisible. To emerge from this encounter unscathed, one must look closer, and that requires magic. The films in this programme are case studies of the possibilities and methods of manipulating this veil. Let them serve as a guide on how to engage with this reality, how to draw from it, how to settle within it, even how to befriend its inhabitants.

A THIN VEIL is the second collection in the FROM OUTER SPACE TO EARTH program. Curated by Short Waves Festival, this collection features five thought-provoking short films.

Watch before January at thisisshort.com!

20/11/2024

MISTIDA
Falcão Nhaga
PT, 2022, 30’

Watch at thisisshort.com!

18/11/2024

Beyond Conventions 📦 Seeking New Styles, Techniques And Methods.

This program is dedicated to films that go beyond the boundaries of convention, seeking styles, techniques, and storytelling methods previously unfamiliar to the audience. It focuses on filmmakers aspiring to break the rules in their own style, demonstrating that the world of short cinema is a space for innovation and courage.

Curated by Short Waves Festival and available at thisishort.com!

08/11/2024

The Extraterrestrial, The Supernatural And Their Parallels In Our World 🛸

For some it might be difficult to grasp that we are on a relatively small planet in an infinitely large universe. We look up and see stars that may not have existed for a long time, while the earth revolves inexorably around the sun. Even the other planets in our solar system are so far away that the distance is measured in millions of kilometers. Humanity is trying to unravel the many mysteries of the universe and is resorting to various means to do so: Scientific research and experiments are intended to shed light on the darkness of the universe, but esoteric and supernatural theories are also intended to make inexplicable phenomena more tangible. The two film programs presented in the collection FROM OUTER SPACE TO EARTH deal in different ways with outer space, the extraterrestrial and the supernatural, as well as their parallels in our world.

ORBIT, the first program of the collection, refers to the path of an object around a celestial body, the rotation. Based on this scientific definition, we present some free interpretations of this relationship, however, they all take place on Earth.

Five short films shape ORBIT—a curated program by Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, now streaming on thisisshort.com!

Watch until January 2025.

30/10/2024

New program! Looking Back: FILMSCHOOLFEST MUNICH

🚪 Time and time again, we come upon the realization that looking back is just as important as forging ahead: after all, isn’t the thought of a book written in the distant past; our favorite lullaby when we were children; the photograph of a beloved family member, now long gone; traditions carried from one generation to the next; the inspiration we draw from old cartoons not what makes us human, what unites us? Before the time to make new memories comes around, take a look back with us at some of our favorite short films from our 2023 festival edition.

Every year, FILMSCHOOLFEST MUNICH brings the most exciting student short films to the big screen. Young filmmakers from all over the world are given the opportunity to get to know each other and the film industry during a week full of screenings, industry events, and more.

The next edition will take place from November 15 to 23, 2024.

In collaboration with This Is Short, Filmschoolfest Munich put together a collection of five films that is now available online.

Watch until January at thisisshort.com!

29/10/2024

Last call to watch BAD HAIR by Oskar Lehemaa ☢️ Follow Leo, who isolates himself until a mysterious hair-growth liquid triggers a grotesque transformation, spiralling into chaos.

Watch until November 1 at thisisshort.com!

28/10/2024

On The Relation Between Cinema And Reality 🪞 In the mid-20th century, an epochal question regarding cinema was asked, precisely “qu’est-ce que?” Now, an epoch of images later, the question cannot be other than “What Is Real?”, onscreen and off-, and how much has the screen become a second nature of the real and its fiction. For cinema frames reality; it documents, investigates, truncates, challenges, and reinvents it, as these films attest.

Five short films shape WHAT IS REAL?—a curated program by Short Waves Festival, now streaming on thisisshort.com!

14/10/2024

SPIDER
Nash Edgerton
AU, 2007, 9’

Available on the “Streamhouse Of Horror” program curated by IndieLisboa International Film Festival. Watch at thisisshort.com!

04/10/2024

Karmic Retribution 🩸 You can hear thunder in the distance, rain is starting to pour down and there seems to be shelter in this lonely dark house. Little did you know it was the STREAMHOUSE OF HORROR! Actions have consequences and by entering this suspicious house you're due to face your sins through Karmic Retribution!

Four films curated by IndieLisboa International Film Festival and available until November 1. Watch now at thisisshort.com!

09/09/2024

EMOTIONAL ARCHITECTURE 1959
León Siminiani
ES, 2022, 30’

Available on the “European Short Film Audience Award 2024” program at thisisshort.com, curated by Go Short and Short Waves!

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Happy New Year to all short film explorers! 🏎️ Trailer from Jacqueline Lentzou’s HECTOR MALOT: THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR, now streaming at thisisshort.com! See you in 2025!