The Paris Short Film Festival is running again in 2024 at the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Fondation and it will be a European hotspot for showcasing innovative cinema and new trends in short filmmaking. This year’s PSFF looks forward to screening a broad range of genres by international directors, and bringing the best of fresh filmmaking to film-loving audiences.
The Paris Short Film Festival discovers, supports and develops new talent in filmmaking, providing a platform for emerging and established filmmakers from around the world. Recognizing the important role independent films have in the history of filmmaking, storytelling, and culture, PSFF wants to help empower the next generation of artists. The Paris Short Film Festival is an annual event showcasing independent films with an edge.
PSFF 2024 ran March 23rd-24th at the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Fondation.
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Award Winners 2024
Best Short Film
I Haven’t Changed Address by Alexandre Roser
Best Short Feature
Vestiges by Jofre Carabén, Yoann De Montgrand
Best Short Short Film
Adam The Bearded Dragon Rises Above Military Threats by Kevin Jones
Best Experimental Short Film
Per Mamma by Renou Mathias
Best Dance Film
Mirage by Yu-Ming Huang, Haonan Ma
Best Sci-Fi Short Film
Esther And The Stardust Peddler by Alex Aymard
Best Horror Short Film
Alone by Andrea Hainaut
Best Animated Short Film
Love Bubbles by Marcel Hobi
Best LGBT Short Film
Marie S’Envole by Léa Sassi
Best Comedy Short Film
Hollywood Method: Breaking Into The Dream Factory by Rainer Lipski
Best Short Documentary
The Artist Of Western Sahara by Daniel Dart
Best Music Video
Surrender (Wedding Edition) by Corey Mayne
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Schedule 2024
March 23rd
7.30pm
Follow by Brent Owen Beauchamp
Splashdown by François Mahé, Maxence Pupillo
The Fantastic Flying Competition by John Croezen
Forgotten Dungeons by Raphaël Ulysse Ramain
Esther And The Stardust Peddler by Alex Aymard
Tout C’Qu’Il Me Faut by Landry Joel Aby
Per Mamma by Renou Mathias
9:00 PM
How Much Does A Memory Weigh? by Kathrin Hanga, Eugene Stuckless
Alone by Andrea Hainaut
Sunk In The Deep by Armando Avallone
Love Bubbles by Marcel Hobi
Hollywood Method: Breaking Into The Dream Factory by Rainer Lipski
In The Meantime by Floriane de Longvilliers, Anaïs Danjean
Marie S’Envole by Léa Sassi
March 24th
7.30pm
Adam The Bearded Dragon Rises Above Military Threats by Kevin Jones
The B of Bonheur by Marlene Veyriras
The Artist Of Western Sahara by Daniel Dart
I Haven’t Changed Address by Alexandre Roser
The Dark Guide: A Personal Odyssey Towards Resilience by Cédric Hémon
Ink and Gold: An Artist’s Journey to Olympic Glory by Zakea Page
The Rumor by Raphaël Ulysse Ramain
9:00 PM
Julio by Markus Miarka
Surrender (Wedding Edition) by Corey Mayne
Mirage by Yu-Ming Huang, Haonan Ma
Krampuss by Guðni Líndal Benediktsson
My 12-Foot Fiancé by Anthony DiMieri
Self Contrôle by Pierre Desgranges
Vestiges by Jofre Carabén, Yoann De Montgrand
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PSFF 2023 ran September 30th – October 1st at the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Fondation.
Autumn 2023 Award Winners
Best Short Film – Azat by Marianna Vardanyan
Best Short Short Film – Myth Taboo & Pleasure by Sophie Riffont
Best Experimental Short Film – Diamond Dream by Kuei-Pi Li
Best Sci-Fi Short Film – Wild by Nicolas Devienne
Best LGBT Short Film – Free Edge by Nicolas Gonzalez
Best Comedy Short Film – Smile! You’re Not On Camera by Emil Pabon
Best Short Documentary – Nick by Clotilde Gabrielle Nogues
Best Music Video – Zeph’ / Breath by Julien Rogue
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Autumn 2023 Screenings
September 30th
7:30pm
Black Out by Sidonie Morvan
Gnothi Seauton by Elodie Lorquet
The Take by Joshua Gwynne
Smile! You’re Not On Camera by Emil Pabon
The Sword In Hand by Rémi Cazenave
Sunday’s Child by Vanessa Nicholson
CUT! by Léo Holderbaum
9:00pm
L’Écharde (Splinter) by Amy Gibson
Azat by Marianna Vardanyan
L’Amour Est Temps De Reflets by Yann Richebourg
If by Jérémy Tignée
Duality by Yasaman Afsharfar
Mom-ery Lane by Adrien Boublil
Wild by Nicolas Devienne
October 1st
7:30pm
The Shoot by Alexandre Spieser
Kun Plezuro by Raphaël Ulysse Ramain
Zeph’ / Breath by Julien Rogue
Myth Taboo & Pleasure by Sophie Riffont
Diamond Dream by Kuei-Pi LI
Coming In by Romain Da Encarnação
Between The Words by Farid Ismail
When It’s Over by Bruno Chiecco
9:00pm
Visitant of Paris by Jérémy Strohm
Immaculate Deception by Emily Lucienne
Night Tale (Black Circe) by Azza Yousif
Nick by Clotilde Gabrielle Nogues
Hot Sauce by Yacine Saadi
Un Homme And A Lady by Mitch Yapko
Posing In Bondage by Bingxin Pu
Free Edge by Nicolas Gonzalez
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SPRING 2023 Screenings
Paris Shorts returned to Eventive, March 10th-15th, 2023.
AWARD WINNERS 2023
Best Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Can You Hurry by Igor Lewicki
Best Short Film: Jury Award
Price Is Right by Grigory Shakhanov
Best Short Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
The Water Has Memory by Yanguo Hou
Best Short Short Film: Jury Award
Nothing Serious by Alex Berg
Best Experimental Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Dream Of A Sedentary Traveler by Hans Werner Wuest
Best Experimental Short Film: Jury Award
3 Muses by Marcia Haufrecht
Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Pleroma by Chris Browne
Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Jury Award
Perfect Way To Die by Xingsheng Sun
Best Horror Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Hellwire by Dan Hawkes
Best Horror Short Film: Jury Award
When The Time Comes by Jondaniel Cornett, Jonathan Frey
Best Animated Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Tipsy by Rolland Miskolci
Best Animated Short Film: Jury Award
Interrupted Dream by Giles Timms
Best LGBT Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Mooncake by Rraine Hanson
Best LGBT Short Film: Jury Award
In Dreams Begin by Bruce Morrow
Best Comedy Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
The Librarians: Director’s Cut by Martina Reese
Best Comedy Short Film: Jury Award
Not A-Muse-D by Sammy Ray Welch
Best Short Documentary: Festival Director’s Award
Sean Dorsey Dance: Dreaming Trans and Queer Futures by Lindsay Gauthier
Best Short Documentary: Jury Award
Young In Aleppo by Issa Touma
Best Music Video: Festival Director’s Award
The Revolution by Jonathan Verleysen
Best Music Video: Jury Award
Intuition by Sadé Awele, Bruna Arbex, Marginal Factory Production
Audience Awards
Nothing Serious by Alex Berg
The Librarians: Director’s Cut by Martina Reese
Back In The Saddle by Ronda Suder
The Water Has Memory by Yanguo Hou
In Dreams Begin by Bruce Morrow
SCHEDULE 2023
Shorts 1
Relationship Cultivation by Geoffrey Class
The Water Has Memory by Yanguo Hou
Olivia! by Rachel Maffucci
The Librarians: Director’s Cut by Martina Reese
Price Is Right by Grigory Shakhanov
Reading Her by Alyssa Owsiany
Mylene by Leon-Clemence Gauthier
Documentaries 1
The Nod: Tell Me You Got Me by Richard Ampeh
Bee The Solution by Charlotte Quintanar
The Hustle by Olivia Rutherford
Dry Bones by Jeremey Lavoi
Inside The Grand Canyon by Denny Rauen
Young In Aleppo by Issa Touma
Experimental Shorts
1 Night Four Me by Jason Riker
Eve by Meghann Plunkett
Self-Portrait by Casey Puhr
The Miserable Existence Of Two Scorpions by Fabio Colonna
Alone by Victor Badreau
Often We Connect Through Our Wounds by Jess Levey
Moth by Kate Weare, Jack Flame Sorokin
Dwinelle Film by Miryam Sas
Steps To Valhalla, Or, Who Tends The Sheep by Oleksii Rebrov
Dream Of A Sedentary Traveler by Hans Werner Wuest
Mooncake by Rraine Hanson
3 Muses by Marcia Haufrecht
Shorts 2
Still Here by Anya Raza
First Love by Chad Michael Smith
Gene’s 6th Symphony by Jordi Garcia
Back In The Saddle by Ronda Suder
The Things We Can’t Forgive by Zach Cox, Jeff DuJardin
To The Moon by Ted de Rover
Show Me Everyone by Guy Hamiel
Can You Hurry by Igor Lewicki
Sci-Fi and Horror Shorts
Hellwire by Dan Hawkes
Nothing Serious by Alex Berg
Old Flames by Fugitives
Pleroma by Chris Browne
Yuri by Baky DIA
The Wacko Worms Tragedy: NFT Update by Ben Klein
Perfect Way To Die by Xingsheng Sun
When The Time Comes by Jondaniel Cornett, Jonathan Frey
Wirnitj by Karla Hart
Music Videos
In Dreams Begin by Bruce Morrow
The Revolution by Jonathan Verleysen
Together by Alicia Maye
Delores Galore: Drop by Jeremey Lavoi
A Name In Your Book by Elizabeth Mantia
Intuition by Sadé Awele, Bruna Arbex, Marginal Factory Production
I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain by Far From Your Sun
The 1 Oz Jig: Gratis by Benjamin Giroam Meade
Documentaries 2
Ruffian by Carlo Mole
Facial Makeup In Beijing Opera by Xiaoqian Sun
Rise Of The Clambassador by Alexander Davidowski
Arab-American Day USA by Erik Friedl
Sean Dorsey Dance: Dreaming Trans and Queer Futures by Lindsay Gauthier
Vwé Kafé (Real Coffee) by Cassandra Joseph, Vincent Lopez
Shorts 3
Interrupted Dream by Giles Timms
Answers Your Therapist Will Never Hear by Niranjan R Bharati
Tipsy by Rolland Miskolci
Not A-Muse-D by Sammy Ray Welch
Office Ghost by Kat Ahn
The Return by Bo Tanas
Prom Car ’91 by Brian Otting
Vers by Zhou Ye
Joe Eats A Tiger by Salieu Sidique
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FESTIVAL 2022
Paris Shorts returned to Eventive, September 24th-30th.
AWARD WINNERS 2022
Best Short Film
No Kidding by Hans Henning Borgelt
Best Short Short Film
Best Student by Rebs Fisher-Jackson
Best Experimental Short Film
Temporary Contemporary by Oliver David Brand
Best Sci-Fi Short Film
D.A.Y.F.L.Y: I Think, Therefore I Am by Jan-Gero Alexander Hannemann
Best Horror Short Film
Objet D’art Goetia by Eddy Hal
Best Animated Short Film
Runelight by Matt O’Donnell
Best LGBT Short Film
Me and Her by Romi Hasegawa
Best Comedy Short Film
No Kidding by Hans Henning Borgelt
Best Short Documentary
Taonga An Artist Activist by Glenda Tuaine
Best Music Video
Modern Life by Antoine Svolanek
Audience Awards
Runelight by Matt O’Donnell
Taonga An Artist Activist by Glenda Tuaine
The Dove of Lochs by déirdre ní mhathúna
No Kidding by Hans Henning Borgelt
Best Student by Rebs Fisher-Jackson
SCHEDULE 2022
SHORTS BLOCK 1
Best Student by Rebs Fisher-Jackson
Prince Ivan and the Clockwork Heart by X. K. Balashov
Traces of You by Stella Sophia Ruud Zwart
At The Sea by Wenxiao Li
No Kidding by Hans Henning Borgelt
A Future Perfect by Blioux
DOCUMENTARIES 1
Unforgotten: Ellis Island by Aaron Asis
A Breach to Anxiety by Émile Roy
Our Culture is Our Strength by Edgy J. Lee
Woke: Choice Words From My Mother by Patricia Mooney
Resistance – The Journey of Refugees in Rio’s Carnival by Betânia Furtado
The Dove of Lochs by déirdre ní mhathúna
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
Estuary by Warren Bass
Kaamos by Ryosuke Watanabe
Mystery of Art by Mateo Padula
Halcyon Days by Ben Soto
Women’s Work is (Screen) Saved by xtine burrough
Shattered Ripples by Siye Tao
Temporary Contemporary by Oliver David Brand
K2 TOG by Ari Veach
Cartography in Three Movements by Mário Jerónimo Negrão
SHORTS 2
Timeless (Orchestral Version) by Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia
Runelight by Matt O’Donnell
《WANDERLUST》 by Yudi Wu
The Fantastic Flying Competition by John Croezen
Brigitte by Ningyue Hao
The Model by Shira Cohen Elias
Flights by Jon Tengs Engebretsen
tHE aGe oF aNXieTy by Stephen Donovan, Mark Dendy
SCI-FI AND HORROR SHORTS
Doppelganger by Nicolò Riboni
Steeplechase by Andrey Kezzyn
Objet D’art Goetia by Eddy Hal
Voices from the Void by Theo Burtis
Chatsworth by Joseph Junod
Don’t Vanish by Z. W. Amundson
D.A.Y.F.L.Y: I Think, Therefore I Am by Jan-Gero Alexander Hannemann
MUSIC VIDEOS
For Sure by Lawrence Alexander, Johathan Atkin
Drifting by Eugène Later
Butterfly’s Aria by Catherine Mouttet
Walk Into the Water by Aric Johnson
Vanishing Act: A Fantasy on Extinction by Judith Lynn Stillman
Heaven In Hell by Len Rosen
Malagueña Salerosa by Dora Paszuk
Modern Life by Antoine Svolanek
DOCUMENTARIES 2
After The Storm by Han-Su Kim
Captives On The Frontlines: Yezidi Former Child Soldiers Who Survived ISIS by Gemma Atkinson
Taonga An Artist Activist by Glenda Tuaine
The Day After by Feng Nanxiang
SHORTS BLOCK 3
Payraise by Régis Granet
The Gig by Danny Pineros
There’s A Spot by Joey Hamburger
The Holiday Maker by Harry Mead
Wireless by Brian Benjamin Dwyer
Beyond the Lake by Simon Constantine
City of Ghosts by Elle Ginter, Christian Elliot
Me and Her by Romi Hasegawa
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SPRING PSFF: MARCH 12-18, 2022