Short Film Pleasure

10 Minute Short Films

De L’air
De L’air
A woman goes to the swimming pool. But nothing seems to be easy for her. All she wants is some fresh air. Directed by Alexis Mallet / France / 2004
Cutlass
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
The Cat’s Role in French Literature
Fear and loathing in a suburban sublet. Directed by Virág Zomborácz / Hungary / 2006
Rejected
Rejected
An animator's commissioned works, rejected because of their increasingly absurd and violent tone, eventually find their entire animated world collapsing in upon itself.. In the spring of 1999, the Family Learning Channel commissioned animator Don Hertzfeldt to produce promotional segments for their network. The cartoons were ...
Logorama
Logorama
Police chase an armed criminal in a version of Los Angeles comprised entirely of corporate logos. Won 2010 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Another 2 wins. Directed by François Alaux, Herve de Crecy and Ludovic Houplain / France / 2009
Sans Titre
Sans Titre
In 1997, for its fiftieth anniversary, the Cannes Film Festival asked director Leos Carax for a short film; a visual postcard addressed to the festival in which the director could give news of himself and of his current project, Pola X. This official explanation almost suggests ...
200000 fantômes
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 - ...
I Miss Sonia Henie
I Miss Sonia Henie
During 1971 Belgrade Film festival Karpo Godina recruited seven masters to direct a segment of the film, intercepted them at the hotel and handed them a 1-page set of instructions.. The rules for this film were simple. Each director would make a 3 minute film. The ...
Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not)
Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not)
A Beirut-ish tribute to Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amelie Poulain, about (fleeting) love & the little pleasures in life, all set and in relation with the very inspiring city of Beirut. Directed by Mounia Akl & Cyril Aris / Lebanon / 2009
Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job
Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job
A parody on a safety instruction video for forklift drivers follows young Klaus as he begins his first day on the job as a qualified forklift truck driver. The film spoofs the original genre very effectively, notably through employing the best-known German narrator of instructional ...
Géraldine
Géraldine
One morning Gerald wakes up as a woman… The adventures of a man transformed into woman and who discovers a new life in a new body. The film begins with a man waking up to discover that he's magically turned into a lady! He has no ...
Skhizein
Skhizein
Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself. An animated short that runs for only 13 minutes, this tells the rather comical and yet sad story of a man affected by a meteorite in a most ...
Who Wants To Be An Amerikan
Who Wants To Be An Amerikan
The film is a retro look at a fantasy Soviet-era game show where contestants compete to see who really deserves to get the big prize – a lifetime vacation in the land that begat Mark Twain, Thomas Edison and Britney Spears. Despite it’s short length, ...
Medium Rare
Medium Rare
Carl is running for his life. When a beautiful woman offers him an unexpected hiding place, his luck seems to change. But desire is about to lay its own subtle trap. Based on "zwei bei tisch" by Hans Herbst. Directed by Stefan Stuckert / UK / 2007
Hedgehog in the Fog
Hedgehog in the Fog
Classic Russian animated short film from 1975. A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect... This is a story about a little hedgehog and his ...