13 min · English · Comedy
What if your harshest inner critic could follow you around? Try this dark comedy for an unusual look at self-doubt and the voice we learn to live with.
Short of the Week
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16 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller · Action · Fantasy
A rescue mission crosses into the spirit world. Try Kodama for an action-fantasy short about a samurai SWAT officer fighting to bring his father home.
13 min · English · Animation · Fantasy · Drama
A boy and an unusual creature find friendship in the dark. Watch for a fairy tale brought to life through distinctive pinscreen animation.
8 min · No dialogue · Animation · Science fiction
One astronaut reaches out across the distance. Watch for a wordless animation about loneliness and our need for contact.
21 min · English · Documentary
Take a short break with “Our Neighbors, The Peacocks” to see the world from another angle.
8 min · English · Comedy
A Short of the Week selection: an irreverent alt-history of the lazy susan, the spinning table at Chinese restaurants, and the spectacularly lazy woman who invented it. Seven very funny minutes.
6 min · English · Comedy
Tom Noakes's AACTA-nominated single-take Australian short: why is a metalhead singing Old MacDonald by a rural highway? Five minutes that flip every first impression.
10 min · No dialogue · Animation · Fantasy · Romance
A lonely iceberg is an unlikely place to make a friend. Try this wordless stop-motion fairytale for a prickly witch and a determined visitor.
10 min · English · Animation · Comedy
A bird too frightened to fly south makes an unusual starting point for a winter journey. Watch if you like small stories about facing a big fear.
8 min · English · Drama
A Short of the Week selection by Julian Doan: as a father dies at home, his youngest son sits by the doorway, unable to say goodbye. Seven raw minutes.
6 min · English · Animation
Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter's Oscar-nominated stop-motion, adapted from Ron Koertge's poem: a son remembers his father through the art of packing a suitcase. Five perfect minutes.
11 min · Mandarin · Animation · Comedy
Even a robot vacuum can need a change of direction. Try Tennis, Oranges for an unusual stop-motion story about loneliness, routine and finding a place with others.
10 min · No dialogue · Horror · Thriller
A wordless ten-minute horror: a woman wakes on a curved slope above an endless drop and has to hold on. Simple, vertiginous and hugely watched.
8 min · No dialogue · Animation · Romance · Drama
Make room for “Lost & Found”, a tender Australian stop-motion tale in which a knitted dinosaur gives everything, stitch by stitch, for the fox he loves.
16 min · English · Horror · Thriller
A couple receive a mysterious box with instructions that make looking away dangerous. A sixteen-minute English horror that plays with what you can't see.
14 min · English · Horror · Comedy · Thriller
A locksmith desperate for a good review finds something alarming behind a wardrobe door. A fourteen-minute English horror-comedy.