Join us September 26 to October 6, 2024, when film lovers in over 500 cities across six continents gather for one purpose…to view and vote on the Finalists’ Films in the 27th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival.

Manhattan Short is the only film festival of its kind. The final selections screen simultaneously across the world during a one-week period and attendees vote for the festival award winners. Every short film selected automatically qualifies for the 2025 Academy Awards.

Screenings include an eight minute intermission.

This year’s selections are below:

• The Talent | Dir. Thomas May Bailey | Country: United Kingdom | 15 min. | On the set of a luxury car commercial, an overlooked assistant seizes his chance to get noticed by the star in this lyrical meditation on masculinity, desire and becoming.
• I’m Not a Robot | Dir. Victoria Warmerdam | Country: The Netherlands | 22 min. | A woman repeatedly fails a computer security test. Suddenly, her humanity is called into question.
• Mother | Dir. Mariia Felenko | Country: Ukraine | 8 min. | At the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Katya decides to leave her hometown and take her mother. But mother is getting her nails done.
• Dovecote | Dir. Marco Perego | Country: Italy | 17:30 min. | A small boat navigates the canals of Venice, Italy only to stop at a women’s prison where an inmate is poised to rediscover freedom.
• Pathological | Dir. Alison Rich | Country: United States | 17 min. | A pathological liar wakes up one day to discover her lies have become true.

• Alarms | Dir. Nicolas Panay | Country: France | 17 min. | Pierre is diligently overseeing the completion of the tumultuous construction site under his responsibility, ensuring that progress doesn’t come at the cost of safety.
• Favourites | Dir. Nick Russell | Country: Australia | 5:17 min. | Two parents face an impossible choice when their family camping trip goes terribly wrong.
• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent | Dir. Nebojša Slijepčević | Country: Croatia | 13 min. | Bosnia, 1993. Paramilitary forces stop a train in an ethnic cleansing operation. Only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them. A true story and winner of the 2024 Palme D’Or at Cannes.
• Room Taken | Dir. TJ O’Grady-Peyton | Country: Ireland | 18 min. | A homeless man moves in with a blind woman who doesn’t know he’s there. A strange bond develops.
• Jane Austen’s Period Drama | Dir. Julia Aks, Steve Pinder | Country: United States | 13 min. | In this period comedy, the sudden appearance of a blood stain stops a marriage proposal mid-sentence. Should the suitor be told the truth

The winners of Manhattan Short Film Festival will be announced on the home page at ManhattanShort.com on Monday October 7th, 2024.

About the festival:

Manhattan Short began in 1998, when founder Nicholas Mason gathered an audience of 200 people and showed 16 short films on a screen mounted to the side of a truck on Mulberry Street, Little Italy, New York City. A year later the Festival moved uptown to Union Square Park NYC, where audiences grew to love the annual event. From these humble beginnings, the festival has now transformed into a worldwide phenomenon.

Celebrating its 27th birthday in 2024, Manhattan Short is the only film festival on the planet to unfold simultaneously, in more than 500 cinemas on six continents, bringing over 100,000 film-lovers in all corners of the globe together for one week, via the next generation of filmmakers. Click here to read how it all began.

MAJOR SUPPORT
Ohio Arts Council
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Campus Partners
National Endowment for the Arts

WITH HELP FROM
G&J Pepsi
WOSU Public Media