Boston Short Film Festival

BOSTON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL IS BACK!
Join us in-person (FREE ENTRY!) at Capitol Theatre in Arlington (July 16-19, 2024), or check out our online program (streaming July 9-26). This year, we've selected 38 short films from around the USA and the globe for you to discover!
MORE INFO AND FREE TICKETS: www.bostonshortfilmfestival.org

Meet filmmaker Charles Jimenez. Their film Keratin was selected for this year's edition of our festival. iFilmFestival had an exclusive one-on-one with them on their experience as a filmmaker.

One-on-one with multi-disciplinary artist Charles Jimenez on their short film Keratin, and more. Charles Jimenez (They/Them) is a British filmmaker, artist, and performer based in England (London, UK) whose work revolves around the invisible worlds of memory, dreamscapes and spiritual experiences through liminal, surrealist, and metaphysical settings. Charles is in their second year of study at...

Meet filmmaker Graham Marvin. His film 'All Through The Night' was selected for at this year's edition of BSFF. iFilmFestival had an exclusive one-on-one with him on his experience as a filmmaker.

One-on-one with filmmaker Graham Marvin on his poignant short 'All Through The Night', and more. Filmmaker Graham Marvin grew up in Lexington, a small suburb of Boston, and majored in Film/TV at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He graduated with honors and a psychological horror thesis short, "Guard," which screened at local festivals. After college, Graham worked his way up the production assis...

Meet Jordanian filmmaker Ahmad Alyaseer. His film 'Our Males and Females' won the awards for Best Narrative Short Film and Best LGBTQ+ Film at our festival this year. iFilmFestival had an exclusive one-on-one with him on his experience as a filmmaker.

One-on-one with Filmmaker Ahmad Alyaseer on his powerful short 'Our Males and Females', and more. Ahmad Alyaseer is a Jordanian director, producer and writer. He recently directed the Emmy Award nominated kids show (Ahlan Simsim - Sesame Workshop). His Sci-Fi experimental feature (When Time Becomes a Woman, 2012) was screened at various film festivals including Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival. Ahmad...

Meet filmmaker Yann Les Jours. His music video 'For All We Know' was selected for BSFF's 2023 edition. iFilmFestival had an exclusive one-on-one with him on his experience as a filmmaker.

One-on-one with filmmaker Yann les Jours on his music video 'For All We Know', and more. Yann les Jours makes fiction and non-fiction films, and music videos. From 2011 to 2018 Yann les Jours directed documentation films for stage performances (for dance and theater). From 2020 he directed various music videos, films, and a series of reports for the Berlin-based Ukrainian NGO Vitsche, a...

BOSTON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL CLOSES ANOTHER GREAT EDITION, ANNOUNCES AWARDS WINNERS OF 2023!

“The 2023 Boston Short Film Festival was a major success,” says festival host and manager Maarten Cornelis. “The 8th edition of the festival took place for the first time at The Capitol Theater, and we had a great turnout of not only filmmakers but also an attentive and excited audience. It’s always amazing to see the films that come out of the festival. Boston has a great cultural history and scene and our festival is happy to be part of what makes this city so special!”

Cherrypicked from almost 2000 entries, this year’s edition of the Boston Short Film Festival featured a great selection of 62 short films originating from the U.S. and around the world. (The festival’s newest online section, the OFF ON Selection, remains available for streaming until July 21, more info on the website: www.bostonshortfilmfestival.com.)

With this year's panel of jury members having cast their final votes, the Boston Short Film Festival is delighted to announce to you today the award winners for its 2023 edition:

Best Narrative Short Film: Our Males And Females (Jordan) by Ahmad Alyaseer.

Best Documentary Short Film: Before Pandemic And War, There Were Bed Bugs And Love! (Lithuania) by Nuruzzaman Khan.

Best Animated Short Film: Under A Shooting Contrail (USA) by Rika Nakayama.

Best Underground Short Film: Disappearing Acts (USA) by Sarah E. Jenkins.

Best Experimental Short Film: Limits (Switzerland) by Simon De Diesbach.

Best LGBTQ+ Film: Our Males And Females (Jordan) by Ahmad Alyaseer.

Best Super Short Film: Writing Of Ape (Sweden) by Gustav Hugo Olsson.

Best Actor (F/M/X) : Camille Wormser In Just Right (USA) by Camille Wormser.

Best Boston Film: Jerome (USA) by Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz.

Congratulations to al filmmakers! And finally, a big thank you to all guests for coming out to enjoy four evenings of short film cinema, we hope to see you all back next year.

A new Call for Entries for Boston Short Film Festival 2024 has been launched on FilmFreeway, submit your film now: https://filmfreeway.com/BostonShortFilmFestival.

Supurbia (Norway) by Alexander Gudmestad, get your free tickets to see this film this Friday July 14th at 7pm.
Synopsis: While his neighbors, friends and family all prepare for an emission-free Constitution Day celebration, Gunnar struggles to cope with life in the materialistic suburbs of Norway. “Supurbia” is a satirical slice of Norway’s new-wealth middle class and their unspoken rules for achieving the perfect life.

Just Right (USA) by Camille Wormser, get your free tickets to see this film this Friday July 14th at 7pm.
Synopsis: A peek inside the absurd and whimsical mind of Mel, a woman with severe OCD trying to do something new with her day.

Love is the monster (Costa Rica) by Neto Villalobos Brenes, get your free tickets to see this film this Friday July 14th at 7pm.
Synopsis: In a dystopian society a grandmother wants to spend more time with her granddaughter, but a series of events turns what seems to be a perfect afternoon into something else

RIPS (USA) by Major Dorfman, get your free tickets to see this film this Friday July 14th at 7pm.
Synopsis: A 9-year-old girl discovers that her favorite sweatshirt is a hand-me-down.

The Chromakey Man (Belgium) by William Samaha, get your free tickets to see this film this Friday July 14th at 7pm.
Synopsis: Dan always wanted to be an actor, but instead of achieving his dreams, he ends up a chromakey technician on movie sets. Covered in a bright green suit from head to toe, he is stuck in a rut until he gets offered an audition and the possibility to step into the limelight. The opportunity is potentially life-changing, and this absolutely terrifies him. Dan is portrayed by Alexander Arnold (Skins, Yesterday, Pistols, The Outpost).

Our Males and Females (Jordan) by Ahmad Alyaseer, get your free tickets to see this film this Friday July 14th at 7pm.
Synopsis: A father and mother are faced with the painful task of washing and shrouding their deceased transgender daughter. Shrouding is an Islamic religious practice that is deemed obligatory to carry out upon death. But when no one agrees to wash her and shame falls onto the family, how far is the father willing to go to make sure his "son" is washed?

Emergence (USA) by Nick Pascoal, get your free tickets to see this film this Friday July 14th at 7pm.
Synopsis: The serenity and calm of the peaceful countryside is brought to an abrupt halt when a mysterious colossal nemesis invades. The only person who lives there is an isolated man in his home, whose anxiety and paranoia are about to be pushed to its limits.

Writing of Ape (Sweden) by Gustav Hugo Olsson, get your free tickets to see this film this Friday July 14th at 7pm.
Synopsis: A poetic one-minute short film that delves into the experience of digital seclusion and the sensation of losing touch with reality. As the lines between dreams, memories and actuality blur, viewers are left contemplating the nature of existence as well as what it means to be grounded in a world dominated by technology.

Jerome (USA) by Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz, get your free tickets to see this film this Thursday July 13th at 7pm.
Synopsis: Basketball connects Jerome to his long-absent father, though not in the ways he wishes. As he struggles to accept his family’s shortcomings, Jerome questions who he and who he'll become.

Late Summer (USA) by Elizabeth Rao, get your free tickets to see this film this Thursday July 13th at 7pm.
Synopsis: On the last day of summer, a skateboarder packs to leave Brooklyn but is interrupted.

Together, Laughing (USA) by Claire Maske, get your free tickets to see this film this Thursday July 13th at 7pm.
Synopsis: Using 16mm imagery of wilt and decay and archival audio of sick or deceased members of my family, “Together, Laughing” is a meditation on transience, memory, and the failure of the archive to truly preserve anything at all.

Before Pandemic and War, There Were Bed Bugs and Love! (Lithuania) by Nuruzzaman Khan, get your free tickets to see this film this Thursday July 13th at 7pm.
Synopsis: He was filming her. They were dreaming of living together between Bangladesh and Lithuania. They were dreaming to make films together, to open a 5 meals restaurant and to adopt orphans. Now he looks back at his life and his broken love relationship.

Turnstile (USA) by Max Bogen, get your free tickets to see this film this Thursday July 13th at 7pm.
Synopsis: New York City is unforgiving when eighteen year old Jack neglects the responsibility that comes with being an older brother.

The Dream Machine (France) by Michael William West, get your free tickets to see this film this Thursday July 13th at 7pm.
Synopsis: A woman experiments with a Dream Machine, hoping to escape trouble. Within the light and dark of the machine, violent emotions awaken.

Molten (USA) by Matt Andrew, Hillary Federico, get your free tickets to see this film this Thursday July 13th at 7pm.
Synopsis: Molten is a deeply personal exploration of loss and grief. After the unexplained death of her father, Hillary is plunged into an unknown world. She is met by blooming darkness that forces her to confront questions about the people we lose, the things they leave behind and how we, as the survivors, can learn to live on

Heat Wave Hallucination (USA) by Jil Guyon, get your free tickets to see this film this Thursday July 13th at 7pm.
Synopsis: “Heat Wave Hallucination” is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait that transports the viewer into a psychedelic world of vibrant color and dramatic, hypnotic sound.

Most of the Time We Are Just Waiting (Canada) by Molly Shears, get your free tickets to see this film Wednesday July 12th at 7pm.
Synopsis: Set to the backdrop of her suburban town’s evacuation, Thirteen-year old Nora enlists the help of the boy next door to search for her apathetic big sister, who has snuck out to party with an older boy with questionable intentions.

Limits (Switzerland) by Simon de Diesbach, get your free tickets to see this film Wednesday July 12th at 7pm.
Synopsis: In a forest he digitized, Simon runs. Within an autobiographical narrative where the images were entirely captured in the forest of Chaney in Switzerland, running embodies the intimate link between the protagonist and the forest, a forest that has witnessed a multitude of personal events and that is now being destroyed by a gravel pit. Immersed in a fragmented world, Simon questions the reasons that pushed him to 3D scan his forest. He questions his relationship with the living world, with the limits of matter, and with the limits of digital representations of nature.

Sheephead (USA) by Spencer Creigh, get your free tickets to see this film Wednesday July 12th at 7pm.
Synopsis: Having lived in a tourist town his entire life, Frankie plays the role of both brash local celebrity and recluse. But when he discovers that a long-time acquaintance has possibly died, it upends his salesman persona. Fixating on an unfinished transaction with the man, Frankie wrestles with the news. His obsession feels duplicitous at first, until it reveals a man who’s grappling with his own mortality and status in a place made for living in the moment

Beef (USA) by Brendon Kingsbury, Sean Webley, get your free tickets to see this film Wednesday July 12th at 7pm.
Synopsis: Some cows don't need to jump to make it over the moon.

The Coral Reef Chronicles (USA) by Zhuo Yin He, get your free tickets to see this film Wednesday July 12th at 7pm.
Synopsis: By Artist Popil. A stop-motion animation about a diving girl's adventure. She's passionate about the ocean and during one of her dives, she encounters a peculiar multi-eyed shark. Intrigued by the shark's strange noises and the gray notes flowing from its mouth, she decides to venture inside the shark to explore.

Text me when you get home xx (Germany) by Niklas Bauer, get your free tickets to see this film Wednesday July 12th at 7pm.
Synopsis: At night, a woman enters a stranger’s car, casually and voluntarily. But soon she begins to sense the dangerous situation she might be in.

For All We Know (France) by Yann les Jours, get your free tickets to see this film Wednesday July 12th at 7pm.
Synopsis: Music video for a song by Mary Ocher (to be released on an upcoming album). This music video has been developed around the idea of bridge between the loss and the vivid memories of what is missing. A bridge linking the archipel context/subject-filming-viewing. It's about perceiving those shifts we operate, sometimes unconsciously. Those essential in-betweens merging our existences with others.