Short Film Pleasure

Award-Winning Short Films

Mermaid
Mermaid
An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself. Nominated for Oscar in 1997 Directed by Aleksandr Petrov / Russia / 1997
The Last Farm
The Last Farm
An Icelandic short film about an old man who might leave his farm keeps a secret. In a remote corner of Iceland, winter is coming on. An aging farmer named Hrafn is doing has last chores before leaving with his wife Gróa for a retirement home ...
Doll No. 639
Doll No. 639
A lonely man lives in his cozy apartment, disturbed only by an endless train rattling in front of his window. He spends the days in his workplace, and gets everything he may need in the night. Until some strange incidents derail the routine. The story ...
The Waiting Room
The Waiting Room
An erotic and humorous story about a man who is sitting in a waiting room. The man spots a beautiful young girl. The girl notices the man's hungry eyes... Stelling visually shows that it is sexual motives govern human behavior. In his film is not a ...
An Créatúr
An Créatúr
"The Helpless Creature" is an extraordinary story of two brothers, born and growing up in an ordinary Irish family. This peculiar little subtitled tale presents an early performance by a now increasingly popular Irish actor, Robert Sheehan (born 1988). It takes us on a young life ...
Chienne d’Histoire
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 ...
The Door
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
Mon Oeil!
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 ...
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
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 - ...
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 ...
The Heart of the World
The Heart of the World
Maddin pulls out all the stops in this dreamlike, hyperkinetic tribute to silent films. 'The Heart of the World" could easily have been a throwaway film, given the circumstance of its origin. The Toronto Film Festival commissioned Maddin to make a brief film to fill a ...