Viewing free films online without being a pirate? It’s possible!

You can now watch short films or features films for free and legally! It’s best to have a high-speed or a very high-speed connection (optical fiber). No need to pirate: you can spend hours on these 7 sites chosen for you.

If that’s not enough, take a look at our list of legal sites for the distribution of films: http://tinyurl.com/frenchvod

6NEMA.COM

More than 355 short films sorted in alphabetical order as well as by director or producer.

Short films by Aure Atika, Rémi Bezançon, Romane Bohringer, Jérôme Boulbès, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Marina de Van, Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Serge Hazanavicius, Maurice Pialat, Erick Zonca, etc.

+ click on the button “At random” to get short film festivals.

http://www.6nema.com/

EUROPA FILM TREASURES

More than 123 short films or full-length films.

The gems of the European cinema heritage: from comedy to science fiction; from the western to cartoons; from the erotic to the ethnological and more… coming straight from the largest film archives.

+ sites in five languages; the Sound Workshop: a workshop for making sound tracks for silent films.

http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/

ARTE PLUS 7

The Franco-German television station Arte offers high-quality documentaries, series, short films and full-length films available for one week after their broadcast.

+ playlist you can make yourself, sorting by keywords (tags).

http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos

COLLECTIF JEUNE CINÉMA

More than 95 “different and experimental” films, the oldest of which go back to 1973.

+ “With backing from the Ministry of Culture – Digitization plan 2008”.

http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/catalogue_en_ligne.php

The Createurs



Interview:with Christophe Bichot et Guillaume ColbocWebsite: http://www.thecreateurs.com
UBU.COM (USA)

Archives of an American university association. With at least one film or documentary by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Agnès Varda, Jean Epstein, Philippe Garrel, Peter Greenaway, Chris Marker, Arnaud des Pallières, etc.

The plus: “avant-garde” or “poetic” films, difficult of access elsewhere.

Attention: some titles may be withdrawn in order to respect copyright.

http://www.ubu.com/film/

ONF.CA (Canada)

ONF.ca, published by the Canadian National Film Office offers, a collection of hundreds of films on line: documentaries, animated films, fiction, etc. Discover the Canadian cinema heritage.

At present, this site appears to be very rich, especially in short film formats.

+ Exploration by genre/language/title/year/filmmaker/keywords
http://www.onf.ca/


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