Instagram now is TikTok. Everything is a reel, a live, a funny video (but funny for who, for what?). It’s all these very invasive tunes, it’s all horrendous colours, horrendous graphics. I repeat: it’s all TikTok. But, as TikTok, it is also an extraordinary festival of short films.

The submissions for MAX3MIN 2023 - International Short Film Competition, NEXT GEN and Blackball professional section - are now closed.

And if the collections of essays so much in fashion now were nothing but small involuntary seasons of short films?

Extended deadline

International Competition & NEXT GEN

15th May 2023

It was a very long job - of production, of reservation, of reinterpretation - to arrive at the (very) short film which, in three minutes, explains everything to us.

Late deadline

International Competition & NEXT GEN

15th April 2023

MAX3MIN
Very Short Film Festival
3rd edition | 11th – 17th September 2023
Online and in Milan for three days open to the whole city

Press release

And if now that everything is short, or very short (we’re always saying that on these pages), short films had suddenly become long? I’m saying short art-house films, the ones that are worth as much as feature films to all effects – I’m saying this so that we understand one another; I know that shorts are films to all effects.

Do you want to submit more than 2 films? And to participate to the Blackball professional section? Do you need 2 more months free of charge to submit your film?

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Legend (exactly) has it that Ernest Hemingway – was he at Harry’s Bar? or at Luchow’s? – made a bet with some friends. “You’ll never be able to write a story in six words,” they said to him, but he was Hemingway, so he picked up a pen and a paper serviette and here are the six words, here is the perfect story: “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn”.

A special section, in collaboration with Blackball, an Italian production company which uses the most innovative techniques in the creation of films and advertising.

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