Featured collection
Short frights, none longer than half an hour.
For you
Editor’s picks
Standout live action shorts, from Skin with Tom Sturridge to Denzel.
Love stories, from Requiem with Bella Ramsey to The Night We Called It A Day.
True stories in short form. Real lives, real places, nothing invented.
Mystery shorts that hand you a question and let you sit with it.
Comedies that stay in the room a little too long. The laugh comes from the silence after.
Crime and thriller shorts that turn on a single choice. Once it’s made, there’s no way back.
New to short films? Start here. A hand-picked set with the runtime of a feature.
Films that slipped under the radar and deserve a second life. No stars, no hype, just craft.
Short films drawn from real lives: survival, courage and forgiveness.
A funny as hell collection of short films under 10 minutes.
Stories across genres
By theme
First loves, last summers and the messy in-between. Films about becoming who you are.
Must-watch shorts by women directors, from motherhood to refusing to be afraid.
Queer short films about identity, belonging, letting go and simply love.
Dark comedies with teeth: flat-share hell, supernatural trouble and one very bad day.
Mothers, fathers, siblings and everything unsaid between them. Films about family.
Friendships that carry us, test us and sometimes ruin a perfectly good evening.
It's okay not to be okay. Films that take feelings seriously, ending on a hopeful note.
Underdog stories about overcoming prejudice and standing up for yourself.
A playlist that celebrates the strength, resilience, and compassion of women.
Where the films come from
By origin
Independent American shorts, coast to coast.
German and Swiss German short films, from Swiss competition winners to Berlin black comedy.
British shorts, from deadpan comedy to kitchen-sink drama.
Top short films with Korean subtitles, translated by Guseok.
Klipist proudly presents all the winners from the 2025 Swiss Short Film Competition by Schweizer AG.
Spanish-language shorts from both sides of the Atlantic.
French-language short films, from intimate drama to sharp comedy.
Italian-language short films from emerging filmmakers.
Time of year
Seasonal
Slow-burn horror shorts. No jump scares, just dread that settles in and stays.
Coming home, family tables and one legendary lost weekend. Films to watch when the tree is up.
Films about beginning again, for the first week of January and any other week you need it.
Romances: sweet, strange and everything in between.
Sunshine comedies and warm-weather capers for long evenings.