Showcase
Here’s our showcase of films shot with smartphones, from acclaimed features to DIY no budget shorts
Features
Tangerine
Tangerine is a critically acclaimed 2015 independent comedy-drama film directed by Sean Baker. It’s one of the first features to be shot exclusively on the iPhone 5
MOTHERBOARD
MOTHERBOARD is a smartphone feature exploring motherhood, filmed over 20 years on 5 generations of smartphones by BAFTA award-winning director Victoria Mapplebeck. It charts the joy, pain and comedy of raising a child alone.
LEFT – HANDED GIRL
When Shu-Fen and her two daughters move to Taipei to start a new life running a noodle stall in the city's bustling night markets, old tensions and family secrets begin to surface. Co-written with Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou's acclaimed debut feature was shot on an iPhone 13
Shorts
Cracked Screen
Cracked Screen – Directed by Trim Lamba. Told entirely through Snapchat, this smartphone short was celebrated for its groundbreaking format, pioneering a new of cinematic storytelling.
Missed Call
Missed Call - Directed by Victoria Mapplebeck
‘Missed Call’ explores the relationship between the filmmaker and her teenage son as they work out how to reconnect with his father who’s been absent for a decade.
Shot on an iPhone X, it explores the many ways in which our lives are lived and captured through the phones we hold so close.
Dawn Heist
Director: Neil Walshe
Two toddlers get up early in order to raid the kitchen.
Swan Lake Bath Ballet
Director: Corey Baker
27 elite dancers from around the world perform a new take on ‘Swan Lake’ from their own (filled) bath tubs. Filmed entirely remotely during COVID-19.
In the Depths of the City
Director: José Rocha Pinto
Lockdown Living
Director: Kyle Mcleod & Matthias Klajzyngier
A short film showing what it's like for a young adult at university but still having to live under the rules and roof of his parents due to coronavirus.
The Lost Pen
Director: Beraat Gokkus
Karam is a Syrian poet and journalist in exile in France. He searches for his missing pen in the Maison des Journalistes to be able to write again.
Home Stream
Director: Giulia Gandini & Lily Blackham
Lily has been homeless for a year and a half. She used a phone to tell us her story.