Short Films

Little Terrorist: A Big Film

Devang Ghia • August 13th, 2008 • Film Review, Highlights, Movies, Short Films, featured

In an era where just about anyone with a camera phone can make a film, or more likely a short film, it’s an achievement to make a film so good it gets nominated for the Oscars. And that too from a country whose poor Oscar record is second only to its current status at the Olympics!

The film is about a young Pakistani boy who strays onto Indian terrain. Mistaken for a possible terrorist, he is forced to take refuge in a neighboring village…..



Watch Award Winning Shorts on Mumbai: The City

DearCinema • March 20th, 2008 • Highlights, News, Short Films, Upcoming

[ March 25, 2008; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Award winning short films from digital filmmaking cometition section of 10th MAMI International Film Festival will be screened on March 25. Selected films from recently concluded 10th Mumbai International Film Festival of Documentaries and Short (MIFF) will also be showed on the day at Mumbai’s Y. B. Chavan centre.

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Chabi Wali Pocket Watch on CNBC TV18

DearCinema • December 29th, 2007 • Movies, Short Films, Student Film, featured

Click here to zoon inDearCinema in collaboration with Network18 is proud to present Vibhu Puri’s award winning short film “Chabi Wali Pocket Watch” today on CNBC TV18. It’s Vibhu’s diploma film at FTII that recieved a special mention by national film awards jury and was also screened at Cannes in the emerging directors section. The film […]



FilmClub Screening: Worms

DearCinema • October 21st, 2007 • FilmClub, Short Films, Videos

Today DearCinema FilmClub brings you a mesmerizing music video by renowned dutch digital artist Sil Van Der Woerd. This underground experimental video shows Lolly Blue Jane Blue on her way down the earth layers; a journey leading to a swirling underwater climax.
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Film Club Screening: Natural Dumb Killer

DearCinema • August 25th, 2007 • FilmClub, Movies, Short Films, Videos

Call it a tribute to Tarantino or the era of silent-caption card cinema, Natural Dumb Killer is quite an engaging film for more than a couple of reasons. In this digital age it brings back the nostalgia of whirring projectors, it’s shot in sepia tone and its dramatic lighting is inspired from the early German […]



Film Club Screening: The Officer And The Thug

DearCinema • August 19th, 2007 • FilmClub, Short Films, Videos

DearCinema Film Club today presents an animated adaptation of Ambrose Bierce’s short story An Officer and A Thug, “where everyone learns that all is not the way it seems to be”. It’s made by Michael Amundsen of New Mexico.
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Film Club Screening: Mr. Uncertain

DearCinema • August 10th, 2007 • FilmClub, Short Films, Videos

The interpretation of this short film is intended to be through association. The lyrics of the song, the song title and the visuals, can be interpreted individually. But when the sound is accompanied by the visuals the combined elements open up new associations that would not be there otherwise. A big thank you goes out […]



Film Club Screening: Don’t Speak

DearCinema • August 4th, 2007 • FilmClub, Short Films, Videos

DearCinema Film Club brings you this week, a short film about love and betrayal. Kris Galuska, a promising young filmmaker from Los Angeles has sent “Don’t Speak”. The film film made in “Noir-ish” style could also remind you of Sin City.
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