Short films are for explorers! 🧳
This November, This Is Short celebrates its first anniversary as a year-round streaming service focused on short films, curated by film festivals. If you haven’t explored it yet, enjoy the first two weeks on us. Join the short film community and break free from the usual content.
Take your free trial and start exploring at thisisshort.com!
Kigali, Rwanda.
- “So, do you think it’s true?”
- “I can only describe it from what I’ve seen on television. A huge pointy element that pierced the ground. And the earth around it... [makes gestures] fell everywhere. Disturbing the peace, disturbing the status quo, the way things are.”
KIBONUMWE / METEORITE I
Simon Rittmeier, DE, 2022, 12’
Now available at thisisshort.com!
#ExpiringSoon 🏐 A power cut in an all-inclusive hotel; a reunion on the edge of a steppe; and a Sisyphus-like feat of strength on the streets of Izmir. In three short stories, the film tells of the inner and outer overheating, shame and hardship in the everyday life of a deeply divided society.
BERZAH, a film by Deren Ercenk, is part of a cooperation with Filmschoolfest Munich and it’s available until September 30.
Watch at thisisshort.com!
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#MostWatchedShorts 🚪 Fernando is a gallery attendant in an ancient museum of fine arts in Madrid. One day he discovers his favorite painting is missing from its usual place. Worried to know its whereabouts, on his search he meets María, a bright restorer who has just arrived at the museum to work on the “missing” canvas.
THE GATES OF PARADISE, a film by Lorenzo Pascasio Molinero, is part of a cooperation with ECAM, the Madrid Film School. The short is now one of the most watched films at This Is Short.
Watch until October 15 at thisisshort.com!
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#MostWatchedShorts 🔬 With time lapse videography of rotting action, Anna Sigrithur and Joel Christopher Penner’s WROUGHT creates an intimate, immersive world where decay can be beautiful, tender and even surprisingly human.
Curated by Uppsala Short Film Festival and available at thisisshort.com!
🐦⬛ @IndieLisboa International Film Festival, one of the six film festivals that runs and curates films to This Is Short, is kicking off its 21st edition today. Over the next 11 days, until June 2, the festival will present 300 films and welcome film professionals from all over the globe in Lisbon.
Explore a curated selection of films from one of Portugal's biggest film festivals, available at thisisshort.com!
New program! 💨 This Is Shortest–Landjäger Kürzestfilm Festspiele
Telling a story in the shortest possible time, namely in exactly 12 seconds––this is what the filmmakers of the Landjäger Kürzestfilm Festspiele achieve every year. From comedy and tragedy to documentaries, horror and science fiction films, everything is represented. And the best thing about it: you too can make it big with your short film. At least for a very, very short time. So capture the best 12 seconds of your life and send them your short film for the big screen. We promise: Best prizes! Best jury! Best show! Because: The Landjäger loves you. You can love him too.
On June 27, 2024, the Landjäger Kürzestfilm Festspiele will return to Gartenbaukino Wien. Submissions are open until June 2 and you can find everything you need to know at landjaeger.at.
To give you a taste of what's to come, the Landjäger have put together four programs that present a colourful mix of the films shown so far. So we say: YES! NO! MAYBE! WHATEVER.
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