Matt Houghton’s nine-minute short, currently winning plaudits at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto, recounts the crossword maestro’s announcement of terminal cancer in a puzzle in December 2012 Peter ...

Short films are often dismissed as just another stepping stone between leaving film school and launching a big-screen career, but the best among them deserve to be seen in their own right. Packed with ...

The 15 LGBT+ films shortlisted for the Iris Prize Best British Short Supported by Film4 will all be available for steaming at Film4 on All 4 from Sunday 11th October. For the first time in the Iris ...

The six shortlisted films for this year's LongShots film festival have been announced. Our LongShots festival partner curators explain why these films have been shortlisted. From an iconic band's ...

Long Story Short, seven exciting new short dramas land on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three from 1st February. All seven are written by alumni from our BBC Writers development groups. The seven scripts were ...

We all start somewhere. It takes a lot of practice and study to become competent at anything. This is especially true of filmmaking. You might look at Nolan or Spielberg as masters of their craft, ...

Making and distributing a short film is relatively less expensive than making a feature film, and sometimes it’s a director’s ticket to stardom in Hollywood. Here are 19 short films that were expanded ...

The 2026 Oscar nominations for live action short films unveil a world where social tension, period parodies, and dystopian laws collide in under forty minutes. This collection of global stories ...

Brighten up the dark days of winter with this collection of compelling one-a-day shorts – from big-name directors including Jane Campion, Wim Wenders, Beyoncé and Chris Ware January can feel like the ...