Giulia Carbonaro
Jul 30, 2023
SHORT FOCUS 2022: So What Did We Learn Today, Georgina? [Franco Volpi, UK, 2022]
England, 1992. It’s a day like any other when the chirpy Georgina, still in her grey and dark blue uniform, returns home from school to...
Dean Archibald-Smith
Mar 12, 2023
In the Eyes of a Child [Marco Ferrara, Italy, 2023]
In the Eyes of a Child opens with booming, double-pounding drums like a beating heart, paired with emotive piano chords, the melancholic...
Dean Archibald-Smith
Mar 12, 2023
Two Knights [Piotr Szkopiak, UK, 2022]
High tension, drama, and theological rumination are the orders of the day in this smart short film, which transports biblical characters...
Wendy Brooking
Sep 4, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2022: Throw Your Heart Over First [Mark McAuley, Ireland, 2021]
“Throw your heart over first and the rest will follow, he used to say. I wanted to make him proud; I hope he is,” says Dave, a bereaved...
Matthew Procter
Aug 11, 2022
The Story of a Trout [Gareth Leah, USA, 2022]
The remote, northern land of Alaska is deemed by many to be inhospitable or even dangerous to those unfamiliar with the trials and...
Dean Archibald-Smith
Jul 31, 2022
My Name is Moe [Kabir McNeely, USA, 2022]
My Name is Moe is an American short film that attempts to deal with the very serious and widespread issue of eating disorders. It centres...
Matthew Procter
May 22, 2022
Borrowed Time [Ginevra Gentili, UK, 2022]
As young Olivia arrives home to reunite with her mother, it is immediately made clear that the pair are not as close as they perhaps...
Matthew Procter
Feb 28, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: Cornflakes Are Rubbish [Charlotte Nind/Jacob Bacon, UK, 2021]
The opening shot of Cornflakes Are Rubbish immediately draws questions from the film’s audience. Said audience could be forgiven for...
Juliette Howard
Jan 30, 2022
The Skin She Sheds [Cass Virdee, UK, 2022]
Faye Stoeser is positively electrifying in Cass Virdee’s fleeting short The Skin She Sheds, about a gang member who discards her old...
Juliette Howard
Jan 17, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: Original Sin [Paolo Sinigaglia, Italy, 2020]
Drunk and jealous, a man enters his wife’s painting studio unveiling one of her canvases, which depicts a man embraced by a fire and the...