Short Film Pleasure

Drama Short Films

Chienne d’Histoire
Constantinople 1910. The streets are overrun with stray dogs. The newly-established government, influenced by a model of Western society, uses European experts to choose a method of eradication before deciding, suddenly and alone, to massively deport the dogs to a deserted island away from the city. Won Golden ...
Dans le noir du temps
"In the Darkness of Time", filmed by the ideologue of the French "New Wave" Jean-Luc Godard, represents an essence of visual reflection of the Time. Godard shows the audience a real Pandora's box, which seems to be hidden all the horrors of the world: the last ...
One Moment
Poetic, affectionate, lyrical, and elegy for actor Rudolf Hrusinsky composed of a wordless montage of slowed film footage spanning Hrusinsky's entire career that embodies the human experience: toil, rest, education, romantic love, rejection, desire, aging, frailty. A recurring interstitial black screen with the words "ten ...
When it Will Be Silent
In the aftermath of an apocalypse, a man's tragic loss leads him to an unequivocal decision. Directed by Dan Sachar / Israel / 2009
Plastic Bag
This short film by American director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it. Along the way, it ...
Hostage
The Driver races to locate a kidnapped victim locked in the trunk of an abandoned car somewhere on the water's edge. Linked to her only by cell phone, the driver narrows in on her location in a desperate race against time and tide. A part of ...
Where is my Romeo
Women in the cinema watching a film "Romeo and Juliet".. Segment from "Chacun Son Cinéma" (To Each His Own Cinema) collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. Directed by Abbas Kiarostami / Iran / 2007
The Door
After stealing an old door, a man reflects on the desperate circumstances that led him to do so. Nominated for 2010 Oscar, another 4 wins. Directed by Juanita Wilson / Ireland, Ukraine / 2008
Powder Keg
January 13, 2001. Times war photographer Harvey Jacobs is wounded while witnessing a massacre at Nuevo Colon by terrorists. In a desperate effort, the United Nations sends a vehicle to get him out, a BMW driven by the mysterious Driver. A part of BMW "The Hire" ...
Mon Oeil!
Une histoire d'amour oculaire, pour les yeux seulement... Elegantly shot and constructed, Mon Oeil (My Eye) combines delusion and daydreams; its main character, a film student, obsesses over an eye peeping through a peephole. Won 2005 Cannes Short Film Corner "Silence, on court!" online competition. Directed by Anh Minh ...
The Follow
The Driver is hired by a nervous movie manager to spy on a paranoid actor's wife. During his tailing of the wife, the Driver describes the right way to tail someone. As he follows her he begins to fear what he might learn of her ...
Cutlass
When Robin's daughter Lacy wants to buy an expensive guitar, Robin reminisces about the days when she was a teenager, asking her dad for her first car, an Olds Cutlass Supreme. Directed by Kate Hudson / USA / 2007
The Cat’s Role in French Literature
Fear and loathing in a suburban sublet. Directed by Virág Zomborácz / Hungary / 2006
Roentgen
1896. The young doctor Georg believes to have found an all-round cure for his patients by using the recently discovered X-rays. He gets lost in his research and risks everything. His wife Charlotte wants to overcome the growing estrangement to her husband and is ready ...
200000 fantômes
In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. "Atomic Dome" - all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition - ...