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The Paris Short Film Festival ran again in 2025 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 2025 will run April 5th and 6th at the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Fondation.  

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Award Winners 2025

Best Short Film: Jury Award
Kids See Ghosts by Daniel Thalmas

Best Short Film: Director’s Choice Award
Le Drome by Tixier Florent

Best Comedy Short Film
Atchikutu by Jourdan Lucente

Best Experimental Short Film
The Walk by Miluum

Best Sci-Fi Short Film
Immersion by Raphaël Ramain

Best Animated Short Film
Moonlit Bamboo Forest by David Pagaille

Best LGBTQ+ Short Film
Just Let Me Dance by Lou Zidi

Best Short Short Film
Aspiration by Stéphane Mandelkern

Best Music Video
I Don’t Love My Mother by Gerard Cuq

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Festival 2025 

April 5th
7:30 PM
Love On The Beach by Anne Barbier
Shh! by Alice Vacheron
Infinitesimal by Luis Costa
Dernier Tunnel by Paul Morinière
The Accident by Thierry Obadia
Elles by Philippe et Baptiste Morand

9:00 PM
The Walk by Miluum
Leak by Lila Calame
Sober Blue by Ringo Yu
Kids See Ghosts by Daniel Thalmas
The Mistake by Pascale Louange
Just Let Me Dance by Lou Zidi

April 6th
7:30 PM
I Don’t Love My Mother by Gerard Cuq
Rosalie by Jevan Chowdhury
Sleepless Night by Hugo Martinez, Stéphane Pinero
Atchikutu by Jourdan Lucente
Immersion by Raphaël Ramain
The Kids Will Be Alright by Sigi Van Roy

9:00 PM
Aspiration by Stéphane Mandelkern
Le Drome by Tixier Florent
Au Bout Des Lèvres by Rick Carl Chris Silvain Van Oss
Moonlit Bamboo Forest by David Pagaille
First Therapy by Quentin Muteau

Festival 2024

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

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

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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

WINNERS FESTIVAL 2022
Best Short Film (Audience Award)
Papers by Nano Alvarado

Best Short Film (Jury Award)
The Coronation by Emily Penick

Best Short Feature
Bolly by Ashok P

Best Short Short Film
Fix it All by Jaime Turner

Best Experimental Short Film
Landfall by Kate Weare & Jack Flame Sorokin

Best Sci-Fi Short Film
Byte Bites by Zane Purell

Best Horror Short Film
Red Mangrove by Johana Botero

Best Animated Short Film
A Song of Springtime by Oleg Stureson

Best LGBT Short Film
Flirting, With Possibilities by Garrett Zuercher

Best Comedy Short Film
The Oh Gees by Shira-Lee Shalit

Best Short Documentary
Send Nudes by Jonny Kapps

Best Music Video
Hooks by Ashley Taylor

2022 Schedule

March 12 – 18

PSFF ran March 12th-18th on Eventive: Buy tickets here