The Smile Man (2013)

Directed by Anton Lanshakov, The Smile Man is a short film about a man (Willem Dafoe) forced to live with a permanent rictus s

Clearwater (2020)

Clearwater is a short film created by Rob Jabbaz starring Joan Loluo in the lead role. A young girl heads to a spot surrounded

Carousel (2023)

‘Carousel’ by music artist Matt B is a very creative piece of music video, assembled using footage from Sci-fi cla

Happiness (2017)

Happiness, created by Steve Cutts, is a beautifully animated short film showing us, in various ways, the human condition in mo

A Troubleshooting Story (2021)

A Troubleshooting Story is a charming little animated short about a robot whose job it is to guard an unmanned data centre. Ag

Room 8 (2014)

An Englishman is thrown into a tiny Russian prison cell, where his cellmate, a long term prisoner, warns him to stay away from

Gap (2022)

Gap, written, directed by and starring Monica Pokorna, is a quirky, entertaining short about a girl who turns 30 and decides t

Step-Grandma (2021)

Step-Grandma is a music video featuring music by and starring techno music producer and DJ Salvatore Ganacci. Despite the Ital

Zoom Parties Suck (2020)

Zoom Parties Suck by Lachie Ross is a humorous and suitably surreal take on a situation we’re all finding ourselves in l

Dinner with Mum (2020)

Can you imagine your known world and even sense of time fragmenting around you? Written and directed by Daniel Harding, Dinner

Traction (2017)

A man, Jake and a woman, Andy go on a dinner date. At first they seem to be getting on well – joking, laughing and shari

Thanks Smokey (2013)

A quirky little short that has been doing the rounds for a while but only recently came to the attention of the SFW team. With

The Big Picture (2018)

The second shortest short on Shortfilmweb (after this one), The Big Picture is a charming and accomplished animated short dire

Garbage Man (2017)

Sam, a refuse collector, decides in an apparent existential crisis that his job is beneath him.  After being cursed by a racc

5 mètres 80 (2013)

5 mètres 80 is the creation of French animator Nicolas Deveux. Known for his skill in creating realistic and lifelike animati

Steam (1992)

The music video for Peter Gabriel’s hit single Steam (1992) was made by Stephen R. Johnson, a director of immense creati

Time Bleeds (2013)

Written and directed by Samuel Supple. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 saw millions of young British men (over 8

Madame Tutli-Putli (2007)

Created by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski (Clyde Henry Productions). Madame Tutli-Putli is a 17-minute stop-motion

Metachaos (2011)

Created by Alessandro Bavari, nusic by Jeff Ensign aka Evolution Noise Slave. Metachaos, by ‘Digital Artist’ Ales

Cashback (2004)

Directed by Sean Ellis Produced by Lene Bausager Music by Rick Astley Cashback is a comic short film following narrator Ben, a

This Land is Mine (2014)

This Land is Mine is a remarkable animation set to a song in the style of a musical by artist Nina Paley. Beginning with the v

Bare Knuckle (2014)

Bare Knuckle is a documentary from VICE magazine about the underground sport of bare knuckle boxing in the UK. Clive Martin in

The Accidental Sea (2011)

Written & directed by Ransom Riggs Music by Michael Picton The Accidental Sea is a short documentary about the Salton Sea,

The Machine (2010)

Directed by Rob Shaw Animated by Rob Shaw and Sarah Hulin (Bent Image Lab animation studio) The Machine is a story about a mec

Jacked (2012)

Director – Aaron Kheifets Written by Lenny Platt, Jamie Falkowski and Aaron Kheifets Jacked is a comedy short film about

Brown Paper Bag (2003)

Written by Geoff Thompson Directed by Michael Baig Clifford Produced by Natasha Carlish Brown Paper Bag follows Reggie, an al

Our Time Is Up (2006)

Written and directed by Rob Pearlstein Produced by Pia Clemente and Loren Mendell Kevin Pollak stars as Doctor Leonard Stern

Gibberish (2011)

Written by Benjamin Hodge Directed by Felix Harber Produced by Christopher Bevan Gibberish is a short, low-budget comedy film

Vasily (2013)

Directed, shot and edited by Alexander Khudokon Produced by Lev Maslov Based on an idea by Dmitry Golubovsky and Maxim Nikanor

Changeover (2014)

Directed by Connor Lynch & David Ketterer Changeover is a short documentary about a Pennsylvanian 35mm cinema film project