CAPFILM: MANHATTAN SHORT 2025
CAPFILM: MANHATTAN SHORT 2025
MANHATTAN SHORT 2025…You Be the Judge!
Beginning September 25 to October 5, 2025, over 100,000 film lovers in over 500 cities across six continents will gather for one reason…to view and vote on the Finalists’ Films in the 28th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival.
Discover your inner film critic by casting your vote for Best Film and Best Actor in the 28th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival screening in the Capitol Theatre September 27-28, 2025. Every film selected for MANHATTAN SHORT 2025 will be automatically qualified for the Oscars of 2026. 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. In 2024, four of our Finalists were short-listed for the Oscars of 2025, with two films being nominated, including the eventual winner: I’m Not a Robot.
More about the MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
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 28th birthday in 2025, 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.
