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Sally Roberts
Sep 21, 2020
Merry Christmas [Yang Kai, China, 2019]
After leaving school or university, many young people dream of living it up in the big city.
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Sally Roberts
Sep 21, 2020
The Rise of Whore Betsy [Simon King, USA, 2019]
A tale of wrongdoing and revenge with a mysterious twist, Simon King’s short does well to wrestle an out-dated genre into new territory.
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Sally Roberts
Sep 21, 2020
Pyramis [Liam Taylor, UK, 2019]
Since the raiding of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the early 1920s, pyramids have been a source of constant fascination for archaeologists, novelist
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Sally Roberts
Sep 21, 2020
Le Miroir [Leila Murton Poole, Australia, 2020]
Le Miroir is a tale woven around this belief that encompasses love, loss and fate.
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Sally Roberts
Sep 19, 2020
Take 3 [Alex Igbanoi, UK, 2020]
Suicide is a heavy subject. One common critique of many short films is that they try to squeeze too much emotional heft into too small a...
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Sally Roberts
Sep 17, 2020
The Orca [Diego Rossi, Brazil, 2020]
Stanley Schamlos is about to become the biggest cheese in the whole galaxy thanks to his invention of warp speed travelling.
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Sally Roberts
Sep 16, 2020
Foley [Ryan Wilson, USA, 2020]
Home alone in the dead of night, you hear a noise in the garden. Dogs barking, torch brandished, you rush to confront an unknown nemesis...
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Walt Eastfield
Sep 9, 2020
The Choice [Abdelmoula El Hadi, Portugal, 2020]
The impact of death on the bereaved can never be underestimated and the psychological reverberations it can cause are impossible to truly me
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Walt Eastfield
Sep 3, 2020
Tsunami Falls [Brian McWha, Canada, 2020]
How would you feel if you woke up to find out you only had two minutes to live? This is the central premise of Brian McWha’s slickly produce
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Dean Archibald-Smith
Sep 3, 2020
Lonely Hearts [Dennis Cahlo, USA, 2019]
Lonely Hearts begins with the shot of a mirror with the words ‘YOU ARE ENOUGH’ scrawled upon it in lipstick. In the same singular shot, the
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