Manhattan Short Film Festival

Manhattan Short - Short Film Festival
A global film contest where YOU help pick the winner!

The internationally-acclaimed short film festival MANHATTAN SHORT returns to the Columbus Public Library. This global festival allows audiences to vote for Best Picture and Best Performance.

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 26th birthday in 2023, 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. Click here to read how it all began.

Location: Auditorium