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Search 2017, Narrative Short films by title (37)
AERIS
Dir: Lukas Huffman, United States, 18 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Terra Madley is living her childhood dream. She is a breakout professional snowboard star on the competition tour. When she suffers a debilitating injury s ... more »
APP, THE
Dir: Julián Merino, Spain, 16 min, 2016, Narrative Short
'THE APP' is an application that gives to its customers the steps to achieve happiness. One day, Benito a fat and not very bright man, wakes up in his luxu ... more »
ASCENT, THE
Dir: Sorrel Brae, United States, 9 min, 2016, Narrative Short
A young woman returns to a centuries-old redwood grove -- the site of a long-ago environmental protest -- to face her past, 250 feet in the air. ... more »
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AN
Dir: Mari Mantela, Finland, 36 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Anja is a woman who knows everything about cars but nothing of herself. ... more »
BLONDES, THE
Dir: Carlota Martínez Pereda, Spain, 17 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Blonde, stunning, criminals, nothing gets between Marta and Pepa and their goal... Except another blonde. Based on a true story. ... more »
BORN WRONG
Dir: Kaisa El Ramly, Finland, 19 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Born Wrong depicts a moment in the lives of two adult sisters in which they have to face one another in a shared taxi ride. The interdependently addictive ... more »
CAT KILLER
Dir: Wes Jones, United States, 11 min, 2016, Narrative Short
A dark comedy about a dying cat and a desperate man. When conventional veterinary practice won't help, two old friends venture into the woods on a mission ... more »
CUL-DE-SAC
Dir: Nick Flügge, England, 12 min, 2016, Narrative Short
A private detective has a routine stake-out ruined by his sister intent on fixing his life. Official Selection for the London Short Film Festival 2017. ... more »
DOTS
Dir: Chen-wen Lo, Taiwan, 15 min, 2016, Narrative Short
A teenage girl whose vision is fading for an unknown cause struggles to learn Braille, while her strange behaviors of trying to 'see' things through her se ... more »
DRY DAYS
Dir: Will Welles, United States, 12 min, 2015, Narrative Short
Alex's upscale co-workers all think she's going on a pleasant vacation. Instead, she descends into New York in search of the vile. ... more »
ETERNAL JOURNEY, THE
Dir: Sunil Pandey, Nepal, 15 min, 2016, Narrative Short
An old woman in her 70s is stroke by an earthquake resulting her journey towards eternity. She arrives near a meadow by a riverbank. She needs a she calf ... more »
FABRIZIO'S INITIATION
Dir: Mariano Biasin, Argentina, 17 min, 2015, Narrative Short
A small town. Summer in all its splendor. Fabrizio is dating Nadia, they are experiencing the beginnings of adolescence and they're ready to have their fir ... more »
IT'S BEEN LIKE A YEAR
Dir: Cameron Fay, United States, 8 min, 2016, Narrative Short
A sexually stifled young man grows increasingly distracted during a rendezvous with an attractive young woman. ... more »
JIMBO
Dir: Rodrigo Zanforlin, United States, 15 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Jimbo, an young quiet and shy boy suffering for many years with his obsessive ruler dad, and his crazy girlfriend Loli. Realizes that actually his anarchis ... more »
JUST GO!
Dir: Pavel Gumennikov, Latvia, 11 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Inspired by the incredible true story about a young man Just (24), who lost both of his legs in childhood accident and who is in love with the girl next do ... more »
KILL JAR
Dir: Brian K. Landis, United States, 10 min, 2016, Narrative Short
On a sweltering Summer afternoon while searching for a prize insect, HENRY, an amateur entomologist, comes face to face with his neighbor, WAYLAND, a pathe ... more »
LES MISERABLES
Dir: Ladj Ly Ly, France, 15 min, 2017, Narrative Short
With a gun at his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento has just joined the Seine-Saint-Denis anti-crime brigade. With his teammates, he develops specifi ... more »
MANNERS OF DYING
Dir: Bo-You Niou, United States, 22 min, 2016, Narrative Short
A death row warden, who has emotionally distanced himself from the inmates whose executions he oversees, bonds with an inmate when the burden of his duties ... more »
NOT YET
Dir: Arian Vazirdaftair, Iran, 14 min, 2016, Narrative Short
It's Hasti (a 21 year old girl)'s Birthday. She studies abroad and her parents in Iran want to congratulate her via Skype. ... more »
ON THE ROOF
Dir: Amirhossein Kotobzadeh, Iran, 10 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Leila, a beautiful Iranian traditional woman, wants to gather her clothes from a clothes line on the roof of a building in Tehran when an encounter with a ... more »
ONCE ALWAYS
Dir: Susanne Boeing, Germany, 21 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Only when a young mother fears her child is in danger is she able to take the first step away from codependency with her own alcoholic mother. ... more »
OSTOJA WILL MOVE YOUR PIANO
Dir: Sandra Mitrovic, Serbia, 15 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Today is a day when Ostoja, legendary piano mover from Belgrade, gets a special delivery. ... more »
PARTNER
Dir: Giorgini Antoine, France, 19 min, 2015, Narrative Short
Today, Tony is supposed to audition for a drama school. But Steven, his best friend and reading partner, doesn't show up. After having failed to find anoth ... more »
PRIVATES, THE
Dir: Dylan Allen, United States, 12 min, 2016, Narrative Short
A band struggles with a radioactive energy in their music they can't control. ... more »
PUNCHLINE
Dir: Christophe Saber, Switzerland, 8 min, 1970, Narrative Short
Two wannabe gangsters can't decide on the coolest thing to say before shooting Michel. ... more »
RHONNA & DONNA
Dir: Daina Oniunas-Pusic, England, 15 min, 2016, Narrative Short
How are you supposed to act when you are conjoined at the hip? ... more »
ROGER
Dir: Brendan Cleaves, England, 8 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Stephen (Seann Walsh) arrives home after six months in Mongolia to discover his best friend Roy (John Bradley) has replaced him with a ventriloquist's dumm ... more »
SENGATAN
Dir: Frank Magree, Australia, 11 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Based on true events. An Australian traveler cleverly befriends tourists in Indonesia for his own benefit. Through self-narration, Drew takes us on an unfo ... more »
SLEEPOVER
Dir: Susana Casares, Spain, 14 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Pushed by the fear of losing her friends, Silvia (10) has invited them to a sleepover... but things can be complicated when your home is not exactly what y ... more »
SOLATIUM
Dir: Christina Tynkevych, Ukraine, 11 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Anna, an ambulance doctor, arrives at a night call which brings back her painful past and challenges her moral compass. ... more »
SOMETHING MORE BANAL
Dir: Shalini Adnani, England, 15 min, 2016, Narrative Short
In an unusual working morning, people sit and wait, contemplating life, and the dead man hanging in front of them in a Mexican factory. ... more »
SPILT MILK
Dir: James Dunstan, United States, 22 min, 2016, Narrative Short
An unrequited love story between two teens leading up to the night of their prom as they begin to understand the differences and similarities of love, sex ... more »
TURNINGS
Dir: Robert Herzog, United States, 9 min, 2016, Narrative Short
When Kenny is passed over for a promotion, he makes a decisive choice that puts a co-worker into the hospital and leaves him to suffer with the moral conse ... more »
TWO
Dir: Julia McGill & Rodrigo Freitas, Brazil, 7 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Nora spends her day preparing a surprise anniversary dinner. Gabriel, her boyfriend, arrives from work tired and annoyed; completely forgetting the special ... more »
VALENTINA
Dir: André Félix & Estevão Meneguzzo, Brazil, 16 min, 2017, Narrative Short
Valentina needs to make an important decision in her life while working with film preservation at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Ja ... more »
WASTE
Dir: Justine Raczkiewicz, United States, 15 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Roger lives a grim and detached life, picking up medical waste for a living, but looks forward to his evening conversations with his quirky roommate and fo ... more »
WATU WOTE: ALL OF US
Dir: Katja Benrath, Kenya, 22 min, 2017, Narrative Short
For almost a decade Kenya has been targeted by terrorist attacks of the Al-Shabaab. An atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust between Muslims and Christians is ... more »