Meanings
nounshort film (plural short films)
plural short films
- Any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.
Translations
Catalan curtmetratge, curt
- curtmetratgemotion picture
- curtmotion picture
Chinese Mandarin 短片
- 短片 (duǎnpiàn)motion picture
Danish kortfilm
- kortfilmmotion picture
Esperanto filmeto
- filmetomotion picture
Finnish lyhytelokuva, lyhytfilmi
- lyhytelokuvamotion picture
- lyhytfilmimotion picture
- lyhärimotion picture
French court métrage
- court métragemotion picture
German Kurzfilm
- Kurzfilmmotion picture
Greek ταινία μικρού μήκους
- ταινία μικρού μήκους (tainía mikroú míkous)motion picture
Hungarian kisfilm
- kisfilmmotion picture
Indonesian film pendek
- film pendekmotion picture
Irish gearrscannán
- gearrscannánmotion picture
Italian cortometraggio
- cortometraggiomotion picture
Japanese 短編映画, ショートフィルム
- 短編映画 (tanpen eiɡa)motion picture
- ショートフィルム (shōto firumu)motion picture
Korean 단편 영화, 쇼트 필름
- 단편 영화 (danpyeon yeonghwa)motion picture
- 쇼트 필름 (syoteu pilleum)motion picture
Malay filem pendek, filpen
- filem pendekmotion picture
- filpenmotion picture
Norwegian Bokmål kortfilm
- kortfilmmotion picture
Polish film krótkometrażowy
- film krótkometrażowymotion picture
Portuguese curta-metragem, curta
- curta-metragemmotion picture
- curtamotion picture
Romanian scurt metraj, film de scurt metraj
- scurt metrajmotion picture
- film de scurt metrajmotion picture
Russian короткометра́жный фильм
- короткометра́жный фильм (korotkometrážnyj filʹm)motion picture
Spanish cortometraje, corto
- cortometrajemotion picture
- cortomotion picture
Swedish kortfilm
- kortfilmmotion picture
Tamil குறும்படம்
- குறும்படம் (kuṟumpaṭam)motion picture
Vietnamese phim ngắn
- phim ngắnmotion picture
Welsh ffilm fer
- ffilm fermotion picture
Cite this entry
APA
short film. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/short%20film
MLA
“short film.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/short%20film. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “short film,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/short%20film.
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