Movieola: The Short Film Channel

In tune with today’s fast paced lifestyle, Movieola: The Short Film Channel provides viewers with an ever-changing stream of great films, on multiple platforms. Short is Good.™

Candy From Strangers

As a married couple struggle to make ends meet, the wife is tempted by someone else offering her an easy life. Stars Cobie Smulders (Robin from How I Met Your Mother). Directed by Smallville actor Eric Johnson.

A Good Day

Nils is ready to die but fortune and a farmer intervene.

The Tree Officer

Are the staff in your office as useless as this? Lets hope not.

Graceland

Graceland

Lillian and I

Lillian teaches her music students the same boring scales, until one day...

Magda

A man recalls his affair with a circus contortionist.

Music For One Apartment and Six Drummers

Six drummers participate in a well planned musical attack in the suburbs.

All is Well

A struggle we undertake together, everyday.

The Amazing Death of Mrs. Muller

The reason for the death of Mrs Muller can be found at her greatest and last bowling tournament.

Dragon Slayer

In a time when dragons threatened mankind, there was only one man who fought against them all. His name is Tarragon and riding on his brave battle horse Black Bull he is on his way to work. But things don't always turn out as they should… and one day... mhh....

My Beautiful Ugly Sweater

A loving and humorous tribute to one very feisty grandmother.

No Man's Land

Jeffrey, a young boy of seventeen, stumbles through the trenches during a World War I attack. An injured soldier collapses on top of him and they both fall to the ground. As Jeffrey fears for his life, Billy, another officer, reaches down to pull Jeffrey

Hock Hiap Leong

A humorous day in of life of an Asian restaurant. With choreography...

Gravity Boy

James is obsessed with comics and the limitless potential of heroes.

Rare Books and Manuscripts

Jess invents an unusual way of chatting up guys, can it actually work?

The Hill

A contemporary, revisionary fable about Jack and Jill and what really happened on the hill.

The Intervention

Steve's friends force him to confess the truth about a pressing issue.

Yellow Bird

An encounter with a little yellow bird turns a relationship between a husband and wife upside-down.

How To Cope With Rejection

A young man hires a ninja to deal with his ex-girlfriend's new man.

Bullox

Aliens, cows and a Bullox. Now that's an interesting combination.

All The Teachers I Have Known

Brian talks about the teachers he's had and the profound impact they made on him, including cinema legend Jean Oser.

Animal Grappler-Everglades

An adventure in the Flordia Everglades, wrestling with a big bull alligator!

Blue Beach

Richard gets to grips with his life when he realises he can't live in the past.

Broad Day

This true story deals with FEAR in the society, man's domination, the class system. Their unconcerned reaction against the heinous crime committed by one unarmed person witnessed by five co-passengers in a running train in BOMBAY.

Toy Soldiers

'Plagued by a bad conscience, Al is given the opportunity to put things right.'

The Little Match Girl

A poor young girl has a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Based on the Hans Christian Anderson tale.

Not Funny

A Yeti is in urgent need of a toilet…A yeti enjoys peeing and turning at the same time, but it's not funny!

Kuhfo

A herd of crazy cows standing on what seem to be steep pink hills, crunching grass doing nothing. An UFO, piloted by an udder shaped alien, appears and toys with the cows.

Lucia

Lucia discovers some x-ray pictures on her night trip through the hospital. An image of a head stimulates her fantasy – dream and reality dissolve into each other. Her illness takes her to a place of origin. After the return, hope prevails.

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Fuddlebe

Non-dialogue short about Mr.Fuddlebe, an old man who runs a funeral home in a small village. The village is mostly populated by elderly people who don't seem to die. Mr. Fuddlebe decides to kill them off to keep from going out of business.

On Special

A young dancer with a small facial disfigurement struggles to express her inner talent. It's what's inside that counts.

Last Stop

A mystery package causes panic on the tram but is it as deadly as everyone thinks?

Crocodile Journals

A crocodile disguised as a man, now that's a great costume

Sons

Seeking to reach out to his son, a father expresses his wish to fix a relationship that has become cold and distant.

A Lesson In Style

An octogenarian pickpocket teaches his grandson how to be a good pickpocket.

Hotel Torgo

An El Paso fertilizer salesman set out to make a commercial film, now regarded the worst film made.

Murmur

An animated thriller; a woman attempts to escape a psycho killer.

The End

What would you do if you had the world in your hands- literally?

Cheez Poofs

So close yet so far. How far would you go for your favorite snacks?

The Cart

A supermarket cart on the loose gives a star employee a run for his money, in this stunt-filled romp.

Stunt Baby

A woman walking her dog comes across a lady with her baby. The two of them start tossing the baby.

Flesh

The Empire reveals all but sees nothing. Its enemies idealize everything but tolerate nothing. Eternal orgasm of seventy heavenly virgins for others. And what if flesh were alone in the world?

Collision

Islamic patterns and American quilts and the colours and geometry of flags as an abstract field of reflection.

Moron

George Green is given a new lease of life when he is visited by a mysterious moth.

Cutting Edge

The tale of a robber who decides to break in to the wrong house...

Watchmen

A night watchman at a furniture store battles paranoia and distress.

Chemistry

A new kind of marriage counselling- a complete personality change!

Circumference

Need a shoulder to cry on. The radio Doctor's here to help!

Fool's Gold

A long term friendship changes when the guy reveals his true feelings. He may not get the reaction he was hoping for.

My Date From Hell

If you think the devil has to been an evil, sinister and scary guy… you will surely change your mind after you joined him on his search for the girl of his dreams! Because when it comes down to love, even the devil has a soul…

Notes from the Space Time Continum

A man's monotonous life takes an interesting turn but it is for better or the worse?

Meeting Me

A short story about the discovery of the world. I am a human being and a bird and a worm. And I am...

I Always Wanted to Work in a Factory

Paco and Ana dream of running away together, but it's not as simple as it seems…

The Edge

Can this teenager talk you over the edge with his rhymes?

The Final Gift

The Final Gift features a short story written and performed by the filmmakers grandmother, based on a true story from her life. Filmed in one continuous 5 minute-take in the small prairie town of Maryfield, Saskatchewan.

Eulogy/Obverse

This natural depiction of a city and some of the things we wouldn't normally notice.

Roads (Des Routes)

During an electoral campaign, Georges Saint-Yves, a political leader, experiences a car breakdown. He walks, jerry can in a hand, along the road, looking for a gas station. Further down the road, someone is dying. Someone Georges couldn't help.

Kontrol-Eskape

In a mesmerizing future universe, a crowd of small bits of paper slowly wander, like zombies, under the control of a solitary hand.

D.I.Y.

In D.I.Y., the squeak of dirty plates, the tap of a finger against a seafood restaurant aquarium, the thump of feet inside a cargo lift, and many other disparate sounds, all come together into a quirky and funky piece of beat science, a human - and humane

Mother

After 10 years of wondering through his life, a son returns home to reconcile his relationship with his mother. Infused with an ironic mix of nostalgic sentimentality and contempt, Mother explores the love/hate relationship between a mother and son.

3 Feet Apart

Set in the near future, this is a charming tale about Han, a boy who is born with a handphone inside his head. He is in love with Pepper, a girl who is born with two small speakers inside her head and a small TV inside her right palm. Han and Pepper are a

The Fastlane

In this unique animation, one girl shows her coach what she's made of when she triumphs over her fear.

Zoom Out

A young film student stands at the interest of stark reality and hyper-violent, sensually charged fantasy. To some viewers of this short subject film, this may appear to be the main character's subconscious reaction to feelings of powerlessness. These fee

Safe

There is a mysterious safe locked tight in the corner of Bobby's new apartment. He discovers the secret to unlocking his true dreams.

Chicle

A film addressing the innocence and incorruptibility of a young boy in an impoverished third-world.

Colourbars

Combining live action & traditional cell animation to depict a typical day of the SMPTE colour bars.

Do Not Open

A woman receives a mysterious package with the message `do not open` written atop. However against her best judgment she opens the package...

Give Up Yer Aul Sins: Birth of Johnthe Baptist

A film crew arrives at a Dublin School to record a child telling of the birth of John the Baptist

My Last Confession

Set in a Catholic Church in the late 1960's, this darkly comic short film tells the story of a young boy who dreads confessing the most grievous of all sins- `impure thoughts and deeds.`

Non Fat

Customer service gets an extreme makeover in this hilarious cautionary tale

Sheep N'Dale

A shepherd learns that one of his sheep has a special talent & sees an opportuìnity for profit.

Taxi: Teddy

1 of 8: A passsenger deals with a cab driver in a teddy suit.

The Unwanted Gift

This credit company gives out more than loans, just don't open the box whatever you do!

Ester

The underwater world transforms to a weightless paradise for Ester.

Pinata

Piñata is a classic story about a stuffed donkey's search for respect.