For 10 years, the DC Shorts Film Festival and Screenplay Competition has screened the world’s top short films to audiences throughout the region. This year, we will showcase over 153 films from 23 nations — including the country’s largest collection of short films by emerging Russian filmmakers. Hundreds of filmmakers and thousands of audience members will gather to mix, mingle and explore the art of short cinema.

Explore the website, watch trailers, read about films — then join us for 11 days this September.

Documentary

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Performance

Genre: Documentary, Experimental  |  Director: Michel Kandinsky
Length: 4 min.  |  Country of Origin: Canada

The last minute of preparation before a performance/fight could change the lives of a dancer/boxer.

Something Novel

Genre: Documentary  |  Director: Xandra Clark, Antonio Cerruto
Length: 6 min.  |  Country of Origin: USA

Jasmine de Lung challenges those who try her baked goods to experience something novel with each bite.

Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity

Genre: Documentary  |  Director: Lew Keilar
Length: 4 min.  |  Country of Origin: Australia

Around 2045, technology will crescendo and there will be a quantum evolutionary shift in human existence.

Mile High Pie

Genre: Documentary  |  Director: Melanie Lynn Addington
Length: 4 min.  |  Country of Origin: USA

In Arkansas, everything is high — including the bouffants, oil rigs and meringue pies.

Chinatown

Genre: Documentary  |  Director: Yi Chen
Length: 15 min.  |  Country of Origin: USA

The District’s Chinatown has seen many changes over the past decade, challenging its established residents.

Legal Stranger

Genre: Documentary  |  Director: Amanda Lucidon
Length: 14 min.  |  Country of Origin: USA

A lesbian couple tries to create a normal life for their child in a state that refuses to recognize their marriage.

Visions of My Mother

Genre: Documentary  |  Director: Alex Budman
Length: 6 min.  |  Country of Origin: USA

With bittersweet memories, Pinchas cooks a dish his mother prepared before they were led to concentration camps.

Wyrzutki (Castaways)

Genre: Documentary  |  Director: Slawomir Grunberg and Tomasz Wisniewski
Length: 18 min.  |  Country of Origin: USA

On the train to the Treblinka death camps, dozens of Jewish children were thrown from the rail cars in hopes of survival.

Line of Sight

Genre: Documentary  |  Director: Stephen Menick
Length: 7 min.  |  Country of Origin: USA

John Bramblitt lost the his eyesight to epilepsy, but never his vision to paint.

People of Dogs

Genre: Documentary  |  Director: Richard Moos
Length: 9 min.  |  Country of Origin: USA

In South Africa, the CLAW project gives hope for many dog in the poverty-stricken townships.

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