How do filmmakers tell a story in under six minutes?

Find out at the 16th annual Short Short Story Film Festival.

The festival returns to Connecticut at Cinestudio on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford.

The 2023 festival takes place Saturday, 25th November.

About the Festival

The Short Short Story Film Festival is a competitive international festival of films that tell a story in under six minutes, celebrating brevity in filmmaking with both live-action and animated films.

Two programs, Heartstrings and Headtrip, both showcase dozens of films tightly sequenced in under ninety minutes, each with a distinctive tone yet wide-ranging styles and topics.

The festival has taken place every November since 2007 (except for a Covid hiatus in 2020), in cities and towns throughout the northeastern United States.

To learn more about the festival concept and history, click here.

If you would like to submit a film to this year's edition of the festival, click here to learn about the requirements and process.