Phrase guide

short film

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈʃɔːt ˈfɪlm/
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noun

Meaning 1

Any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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History

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Across languages

Translations

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: կարճամետրաժ ֆիլմ (karčametraž film) — motion picture
  • Catalan: curtmetratge — motion picture
  • Catalan: curt — motion picture
  • Chinese Mandarin: 短片 (duǎnpiàn) — motion picture
  • Danish: kortfilm — motion picture
  • Esperanto: filmeto — motion picture
  • Finnish: lyhytelokuva — motion picture
  • Finnish: lyhytfilmi — motion picture
  • Finnish: lyhäri — motion picture
  • French: court métrage — motion picture
  • Galician: curtametraxe — motion picture
  • Galician: curta — motion picture
  • Georgian: მოკლემეტრაჟიანი ფილმი (moḳlemeṭražiani pilmi) — motion picture
  • German: Kurzfilm — motion picture
  • Greek: ταινία μικρού μήκους (tainía mikroú míkous) — motion picture
  • Hungarian: kisfilm — motion picture
  • Indonesian: film pendek — motion picture
  • Irish: gearrscannán — motion picture
  • Italian: cortometraggio — motion picture
  • Japanese: 短編映画 (tanpen eiɡa) — motion picture
  • Japanese: ショートフィルム (shōto firumu) — motion picture
  • Korean: 단편 영화 (danpyeon yeonghwa) — motion picture
  • Korean: 쇼트 필름 (syoteu pilleum) — motion picture
  • Malay: filem pendek — motion picture
  • Malay: filpen — motion picture
  • Marathi: लघुपट (laghupaṭ) — motion picture
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kortfilm — motion picture
  • Polish: film krótkometrażowy — motion picture
  • Portuguese: curta-metragem — motion picture
  • Portuguese: curta — motion picture
  • Romanian: scurt metraj — motion picture
  • Romanian: film de scurt metraj — motion picture
  • Russian: короткометра́жный фильм (korotkometrážnyj filʹm) — motion picture
  • Spanish: cortometraje — motion picture
  • Spanish: corto — motion picture
  • Swedish: kortfilm — motion picture
  • Tamil: குறும்படம் (kuṟumpaṭam) — motion picture
  • Vietnamese: phim ngắn — motion picture
  • Welsh: ffilm fer — motion picture