Short Film Pleasure

Award-Winning Short Films

Foutaises
Foutaises
A masterpiece comedy starring Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen). Featuring muted colors with a sepia black and white, Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes". Won César Award for bes short film in 1989. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet / France / 1989
Little Man
Little Man
A touching story about a boy and his homework, and his attempt to understand girls. Directed by Esben Tønnesen / Denmark / 2006
Little Terrorist
Little Terrorist
Jamal, a 10-year-old Pakistani Muslim, mistakenly crosses the border between India and Pakistan and finds an unusual ally in a Hindu Brahmin, Bhola. Indian soldiers descend on Bhola's village searching for the so-called terrorist who crossed over. Bhola's neice, Rani, insists they can't let a ...
Ah, L’Amour
Ah, L’Amour
A guy keeps getting painfully rejected (bodily harm) when he asks girls out. Directed by Don Hertzfeldt / USA / 1995
The Parlor
The Parlor
A group of strangers pass the time in a waiting room and talk about strange things.. This short was simply cool beyond words. And the twisted ending was brilliant. Overall, more than worth spending the ten minutes or so to watch it. Its ...
Kitchen Sink
Kitchen Sink
Disturbing horror film. A woman is cleaning her kitchen sink. Just when she thinks it is spotless, she notices what appears to be a strand of hair near the drain. As she pulls on it, she realizes it is coming out of the drain...and is very ...
Spider
Spider
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Jill is annoyed with Jack, ignoring his attempts to get her to smile as she drives a city road. She stops for petrol, and while she's filling the tank, he goes into the station's mini-mart and ...
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A worker in a factory learns a lesson about life. When is enough? The Academy-Award® nominated animated short-film tells the story of a lonely inventor, whose colorless existence is brightened only by dreams of the carefree bliss of his youth. By day, he is trapped in a ...
Sniffer
Sniffer
In a society where everyone has the ability to fly, the citizens anchor themselves to the ground via "gravitation boots". Devoid of sunlight and the open sky, the members of society go about their routine without any hope of personal gratification. One day, however, a man decides ...
La Maison en Petits Cubes
La Maison en Petits Cubes
As his town is flooded by water, an old man is forced to add additional levels onto his home with bricks (cubes) in order to stay dry... Won Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2009. Until this day I've never wanted to post a comment even ...
Father and Daughter
Father and Daughter
A father says goodbye to his young daughter. In time the daughter grows old, but within her there is always a deep longing for her father. Won Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit / Belgium, UK, Netherlands / 2000
Security
Security
A security guard catches a young woman stealing in a supermarket, but something about her makes him do something he has never done before. Filmmaker Comments: Security is an absolutely no-budget film production, shoot on tree days in february 06 in Hamburg, Germany. All cast and crew ...
Mankind Is No Island
Mankind Is No Island
Sydney. New York. Two global cities with big hearts, broken. This Film was shot entirely on a cell phone, on the streets of New York, NY and Sydney, Australia. The film won the $20,000 top prize at Tropfest NY 2008. Directed by Jason van Genderen/ Australia / ...
Validation
Validation
A fable about a parking attendant who gives his customers REAL validation - dispensing both free parking and free compliments. Directed by Kurt Kuenne / USA / 2007
10 Minutes
10 Minutes
1994. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Rome, Italy. How many different things can happen for only 10 Minutes. The film won the award for the best European short film in 2002. Directed by Ahmed Imamovic / Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2002