Manhattan Short Film Festival 2024

The 27th Annual

MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival.

ONE WORLD – ONE WEEK – ONE FESTIVAL

Join us, when over 100,000 film lovers in over 500 cities across six continents gather for one reason…to view and vote on the Finalists’ Films in the 27th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival.

Upon entry at all participating venues, festival attendees are handed a Voting Card and an Official Program and asked to vote for the ONE Film and Actor they feel should win. Votes are tallied by each host venue then emailed to our NYC headquarters.

Finalists will become eligible to enter the Oscars 2025
Every Film Selected for MANHATTAN SHORT 2024 will be Automatically Qualified for the Oscars of 2025. MANHATTAN SHORT does a full week’s run at a cinema in Hollywood which is advertised in the LA Weekly. This advertised run automatically qualifies each film for the Oscars.

The MANHATTAN SHORT Final Ten are:

THE TALENT

Director: Thomas May Bailey
Country: United Kingdom
Running Time: 15:00
Synopsis: 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.

ALARMS

Director: Nicolas Panay
Country: France
Running Time: 17:00
Synopsis: 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.

I’M NOT A ROBOT

Director: Victoria Warmerdam
Country: The Netherlands
Running Time: 22:00
Synopsis: A woman repeatedly fails a computer security test. Suddenly, her humanity is called into question.

FAVOURITES

Director: Nick Russell
Country: Australia
Running Time: 5:00
Synopsis: Two parents face an impossible choice when their family camping trip goes terribly wrong.

MOTHER

Director: Mariia Felenko
Country: Ukraine
Running Time: 8:00
Synopsis: 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.

THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT

Director: Nebojša Slijepčević
Country: Croatia, Bulgaria, France
Running Time: 13:00
Synopsis: Bosnia, 1993: A rogue paramilitary force stops a passenger train. One man stands up to them. Winner of the 2024 Palme D’Or at Cannes.

DOVECOTE

Director: Marco Perego
Country: Italy
Running Time: 17:30
Synopsis: A small boat navigates the canals of Venice, Italy, stopping at a place where no tourist would tour, and here we find a woman who is poised to rediscover freedom.

ROOM TAKEN

Director: TJ O’Grady-Peyton
Country: Ireland
Running Time: 13:00
Synopsis: A homeless man moves in with a blind woman who doesn’t know he’s there. A strange bond develops.

PATHOLOGICAL

Director: Alison Rich
Country: USA
Running Time: 17:00
Synopsis: A pathological liar wakes up one day to discover her lies have become true.

JANE AUSTEN’S PERIOD DRAMA

Director: Julia Aks, Steve Pinder
Country: USA
Running Time: 13:00
Synopsis: In this period comedy, the sudden appearance of a blood stain stops a marriage proposal mid-sentence.

“It’s the Public that Creates Stars”

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, MANHATTAN SHORT has now transformed into a worldwide phenomenon. Celebrating its 26th birthday in 2023, 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.