DRAMA SHORT FILMS

DRAMA SHORT FILMS

A collection of the best drama short films from around the world today.

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DRAMA SHORT FILMS
  • the other land / l'altra terra, 13min., Italy, Drama/Environmental

    Sofia, the young owner of an important avant-garde farm in Salento, recalls during an interview how it all began with the scent of bread that her peasant grandparents made with their own hands and offered her when she went to visit them as a child. A simple gesture of love that remained in her he...

  • IN THE SILENCE OF THE HEART, 20min., Sci-Fi/Drama

    Sabie lives with Valentín. After years of abuse and prolonged depression, Sabie is waiting for a sign from God that would grant her permission to take her husband’s life, and then her own.

    https://www.instagram.com/realizador.audiovisual

    Directed by Fernando Lazzarini

  • VULPES, 7min., USA, Drama

    After many years of conjuring the idea of 'man' and what it means to be human, a sly nimble fox spirit becomes a human to learn their ways.​

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    Directed by Laura Hoffheimer

    Director Statement
    Vulpes is one of the fi...

  • GIFT, 8min., USA, Drama

    A jaded alcoholic has his world view challenged by an unexpected act.

    Directed by Vince Eisenson

    Writer & Producer: Al Julian

    Director Statement
    This film was based on a real experience our screenwriter (Al Julian) had while leading group therapy sessions several years ago. The project went th...

  • ANTISEMITE, 13min., USA, Drama

    Seth, a college senior, is home for winter break. He’s spending a day relaxing and shopping on Fairfax Avenue when he’s suddenly confronted by an Orthodox Jewish man asking Seth if he’s Jewish. Seth’s chance encounter leads to a profound spiritual experience with life-changing implications.

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  • YOU CAN'T BE HERE, 16min., USA, Sci-Fi/Drama

    After humanity's destruction, one man wanders the wasteland in search of a safe place to settle down, until one day he is confronted by a group of people who don't belong.

    https://www.instagram.com/zac_pope/

    Directed by Zachary Pope

    Cast: Tanner Thomason, Ketta Kachemov, Alvin Heng, Lauren Tay...

  • ZARDA, 17min., Pakistan, Drama/Family

    ARDA (Sweet-rice, a local desert in Pakistan) is a slice-of-life, Docufiction film.
    We peek into the life of a young Pakistani teenage girl Shella who comes from a conservative, lower middle-class family but dreams with an open heart. Slowly stepping out into the real world, Shella is fascinated ...

  • A STATE OF BLISS, 17min., USA, Romance/LGBTQ+/Drama

    A user goes on a virtual, blind date to meet an individual that challenges their process of life and death.

    Directed by Abriana Blount

    https://blountabriana.wixsite.com/filmfruit

  • HER SWEATER, 25min., USA, Drama/Romance

    After Desmond spends a surreal post-graveyard shift day with his enchanting co-worker Freya, he has to choose between following his heart and his own advice.

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    Directed by Jannik Ehret

    Director Statement
    This project is based on a surreal first hand exp...

  • (DIS) CONNECTION, 4min., Spain, Drama/Romance

    Do you know the legend of the red thread? This is a story of two people that weren't afraid of playing, burning, or breaking themselves in a hundred pieces. They just press the PLAY button without knowing if there were a second part of the film on...or if it had to be written.

    Directed by Andrea...

  • FIRST MEMORY, 1min., USA, Comedy/Drama

    Memory's a funny thing.

    Directed by Chip Hackler

    Cast: Nicholas Pryor, Jana Allen, Paul Teal, Emmett Moss, Anthony Police, Fracaswell Hyman

    Director Statement
    FIRST MEMORY is a micro-budget collaboration between film students, educators and professionals.

    The character with the rake is actor...

  • SWISH, 5min., USA, Drama/Sports

    A half court requiem.
    Two brothers grow up in the sport of basketball, pushing and challenging one another. Until one day, one gets killed. Years after grieving, it drives the remaining brother to keep the standard and work ethic that he and his brother shared.

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  • SHAPE OF CLAY, 13min., Romania, Drama/Romance

    Romanian actress Sara and American director Andrew are perfect partners in life and art until Sara starts to see parallels between their love and their latest play: a stage adaptation of "The Evening Star" by Mihai Eminescu. As the two engage in a contest of creative wills, Sara is forced to reck...

  • THE GIRLS OF BATHROOM B short film, 5min., Canada

    Tensions ebb and flow during a busy morning in 1980 as impatient teenagers wait to use the girls' bathroom.

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    Director/Writer: Sal Eigh

  • LILI, 15min., Puerto Rico, Drama/Thriller/Political

    Directed by Brian Rios

    A father and daughter must cross the border in order to find a better life, but the daughter cannot speak.

    https://www.instagram.com/lilishortfilm/

    WILDsound Podcast: https://www.wildsoundpodcast.com/the-film-podcast-by-wildsound/2022/11/24/november-22-2022-filmmaker-bri...

  • Watch GIN RUMMY short film. 17min., USA, Drama

    Three best friends have been playing Gin Rummy every week for over 50 years. On this Gin Rummy night they have made other plans as a final bonding of the trio.

    Director Statement

    I am excited and humbled to have reached this point in my creative career. I have been wanting to direct and write a...

  • MOB FAMILY TIES short film watch, Student short film

    After grandpa Michael begins to unintentionally rat on old associates due to his mental decline, the Leslie's, a mob family, face a moral dilemma whether they need to whack grandpa or not as they host his possible final meal in this send up of traditional TV sitcoms.

    Writer/Director: Britt Dally...

  • SIGNALS - Timothy Connon and the pier short film watch, Sci-Fi/Road Movie

    Timothy Connor died on a spring break weekend in a car crash in 1967.
    56 years later, he finally gets to the pier.

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    Directed by Rod Saez Chavez

    Director Statement
    My intention wa...

  • LOST ON THE BEACH short film watch, 3min., USA

    An older man reflects on his loses.

    Directed by Vince Eisenson
    https://www.instagram.com/vinceeisenson

    Cast: Milo Eisenson, Alexander Julian, Matt Amick

  • WEDNESDAY short film watch, 4min., Hungary, Comedy

    When a Jewish woman (30) makes her son (5) pee on the wharf of Danube river in the night of mid-fourties Budapest, we don’t know yet that this is their last moment together. Because the facist Arrow Cross party officer plays with them with particular cruelty. Because they are the members of that ...

  • FLAWLESS 2 short film watch, 9min., Romance

    THREE YEARS AFTER A INONCLUSIVE FIRST DATE, TWO YOUNG PEOPLE MEET AGAIN. THE REUNION WILL HARDLY BE RESTFUL, AS THEY WILL HAVE TO PLAY A GAME OF TRUTH-TELLING.

    https://www.facebook.com/100rancunes/

  • FLAWLESS short film watch, 7min., France, Romance

    A young man is going on a first date with a young lady, but things will take an unexpected turn because of a new mobile app

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    Director Biography - LEVY CLAUDE
    Levy Claude, a photographer, then trains to do video editing. He starts with making films for individ...

  • BRUEHM'S CLOSET short film watch, 15min., Black & White

    Milton Bruehm is more than a janitor, and he has a precious secret hidden in his closet.

    Written & Directed by Ramona Taylor

    Ms. Taylor, a graduate of Duke University and the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law, is a principal and co-founder of Shockoe Productions and founder of ...

  • THE LAST ZOMBIE short film watch, 16min., Drama/Horror

    At the conclusion of a zombie apocalypse, a lone zombie wanders the planet, isolated and threatened by every human in sight. When Nova, the last zombie, comes across a little girl who knows no fear, the two form an unlikely - and tragically short lived - friendship.

    Directed by Adam J. Vaughn
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