How do filmmakers tell a story in under six minutes?

We found out at the 12th annual Short Short Story Film 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.

The festival has taken place every November since 2007, in Providence and other cities in the northeastern United States.

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

Festival Details

A record thirty countries from six continents were represented for the 12th edition, with over two-thirds making their U.S. premieres, including several world premieres.

Culled from hundreds of submissions, two programs, Heartstrings and Headtrip, each showcased eighteen films, tightly sequenced in under ninety minutes, with each of the programs having a distinctive tone yet wide-ranging styles and topics.