13 min · English · Drama · Romance
What do you hold on to when everything is changing? Try this for a teenager's search for meaning at the end of high school.
English short films
250 English short films in the cafe, running 2 to 40 minutes. Many are thought-provoking or bittersweet. Each is a complete standalone short film, chosen by the cafe and played through its original video provider.
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.
4 min · English · Comedy · Thriller
Alex Brooks's four-minute comedy-thriller: two criminals discover they've picked the same hiding place.
8 min · English · Horror · Thriller
Dylan Clark's eight-minute horror: a young woman giving a presentation on a religious painting starts to doubt what she can see in it.
4 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
A four-minute English sci-fi thriller in which an office worker's daily routine slowly becomes something unsettling.
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.
20 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
A selfish executive is trapped in a restroom time loop and has to face other versions of himself to get out. Twenty minutes of clever, funny sci-fi.
15 min · English · Comedy
A big Italian-American family keeps Sunday pasta night alive after their parents' passing, until Don announces he's gone vegan. Fourteen loud, loving, very funny minutes.
13 min · English · Comedy · Drama · Horror · Fantasy
For Owen, resisting a compulsion feels as if the world could end. This dark comedy takes that fear literally, mixing an everyday struggle with wildly escalating stakes.
11 min · English · Drama
Pull up a chair for “No More Wings”, a warm, bittersweet two-hander in which childhood friends Isaac and Jude catch up over fried chicken as their lives drift in different directions.
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.
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.
16 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller · Drama
An English sci-fi thriller: two estranged brothers caught in a repeating chain of events try to stop a tragedy. Fifteen tense, emotional minutes.
19 min · English · Drama
One night, a teenager with nowhere to sleep and a deafblind man waiting for his bus find their way to each other. Settle in for a warm, quietly moving drama about empathy.
17 min · English · Drama · Science fiction
During a lethal epidemic, a quarantined father faces an impossible choice when his daughter falls ill. A sixteen-minute English sci-fi drama that lands close to home.
7 min · English · Drama
Liam has six weeks to live and has told no one. Settle in for a quietly affecting British drama about keeping up appearances while time runs out.
22 min · English · Romance · Comedy
Joe Gillette's English romantic dramedy: a melancholy best man escapes the wedding crowd and meets Jessie. A sweet, witty twenty-two minutes about how strangers really connect.
23 min · English · Documentary
Meet Lusia Harris in her own words. A short introduction to a basketball life that deserves to be better known.
13 min · English · Drama
Sit with “Presentation”, a perceptive, empathetic teen drama about Holly, who has to stand up in front of her class while self-doubt and anxiety close in around her.
36 min · English · Science fiction
Jason Carman's ambitious sci-fi for DUST, set in the year 2730: a scientist proposes building an artificial habitable planet. Thirty-six minutes in the project's final century.
12 min · English · Comedy
Alexandra Robinson's dramatic comedy: Cece comes out to her traditional Italian-American family over Sunday dinner. Twelve warm, funny minutes.
35 min · English · Documentary
Take a short break with “The Barber of Little Rock” to see the world from another angle. A barber builds a nonprofit community bank to close the racial wealth gap.
12 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
Mark Slutsky's English sci-fi for DUST: a struggling lawyer wakes in a doorless room, chosen to negotiate for the whole human race. Eleven tense minutes.
18 min · English · Science fiction · Horror · Thriller
A missing body leads a physician to a secret experiment on the edge of life and death. A seventeen-minute English sci-fi horror.
13 min · English · Horror · Drama
A family dinner becomes impossible to separate from grief. Choose The Dinner After for a horror short where the feelings Angela tries to escape will not stay outside the room.
14 min · English · Animation · Documentary
Take a short break with “Ryan” to see the world from another angle.
6 min · English · Thriller · Drama
A game of chess between two strangers opens old wounds and becomes a struggle for power. A six-minute English thriller.
7 min · English · Horror · Thriller
A family has one rule: keep ignoring the dangerous presence in the house. A seven-minute English horror that tests your nerves.
13 min · English · Romance · Drama
Arthur is sure that love at first sight is real the moment he meets Ruth. Settle in with John Hurt and Phyllida Law for a tender British romance about love that refuses to run out of time.
14 min · English · Romance · Drama
A journey to recreate an old photograph becomes a chance to begin something new. Try Reappear for an English-language romantic short connecting a father's memory with a son's next chapter.
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.
14 min · English · Drama · Thriller
An ordinary school day becomes a child's fight for safety. Watch for a restrained, emotionally difficult perspective on the people at the centre of gun violence.
7 min · English · Science fiction · Drama
A grieving mother brings home a synthetic child to fill the silence, unaware of the robot's hidden purpose. A seven-minute English sci-fi drama.
16 min · English · Romance · Comedy
An arranged date is a meeting of expectations as much as people. Try this if you enjoy stories about belonging, family and finding a connection.
11 min · English · Romance · Drama
Two people nobody would have paired find themselves drawn together. Eleven minutes of sincere, small-scale romance.
21 min · English · Drama
Six-year-old Libby has lived in silence until a caring social worker opens up a way to communicate. Turn on the captions and settle in with this moving British drama about a deaf child being understood.
7 min · English · Science fiction
David Lea's sci-fi for DUST: every Sunday an old man and his dog walk to the Cornish clifftops, but this time they're not alone. Six quiet, wondrous minutes.
16 min · English · Comedy · Drama
An eight-year-old's crush on his teacher leads to a challenge with surprisingly serious stakes. A sixteen-minute Irish comedy-drama.
15 min · English · Drama · Thriller · Comedy
A parlour game becomes a test of belonging. Watch this dark comedy-mystery for sharp class satire and a family whose polished manners hide something troubling.
22 min · English · Drama
A quiet helpline shift turns into a conversation that reaches deep into two lonely lives. Settle in for a tender, unhurried story about grief, kindness and the power of simply listening.
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