@mondosalvo wrote:

Hello,

Hello!

could someone explain why these two shorts were deleted within the past few days?

I can't give you the exact reason right now, but I can ask the other moderators about it.

I can't think of any content guidelines that would have prompted them to be deleted.

Well, there's one obvious reason - these 2 short films are ads, produced for the magazine vogue and released on vogue.com.
And when you take a look into the contribution bible, you can find that ads are not supported - with this important note:

"rare exception (mod call): a few long-form ads that do not "feel" like an ad, have a famous director and/or cast and typically a film festival screening or similar release. Example: Castello Cavalcanti by Wes Anderson."
https://www.themoviedb.org/bible/new_content/59f792cd9251413e93000004#59f7933c9251413e93000005

I assume that happened here: A moderator looked at both and decided that they don't fall under this exception.

But - that's just my speculation.
As I wrote, I don't know the exact reason right now.

They're proper short films, each debuting at a festival and both of them winning prizes at those festivals

Do you remember the exact festivals?
I did a bit of searching, but I couldn't find it right now.
And I don't have more time.
Do you remember?

There's plenty of stuff on here with less pedigree than these two shorts.

That's never a good reason, because many users create entries for all kinds of stuff that doesn't belong on TMDb.
And we don't judge by less or more pedigree - we just look if it was released professionally based on our rules.
Here in this case, it seems to be a mod call.

Hi, Janar is correct. Both are internal promos made as content for the Vogue website. Also released on YouTube (not a supported streaming service) and director lists it as commercial work for Vogue.

As for the festivals, fashion film festivals (where the first one was screened) are normally outside of what we consider relevant since so much sponsored content / ad content are released there. From one such festival, it's also clear that it's a sponsored short and not a regular movie: "In this Vogue.com Original Short, directed by Niclas Larsson ...". For the second promo, no festival screenings were found.