Giulia Carbonaro
Jan 8, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: Rimi [Nischhal Sharma, India, 2021]
The sound of birds singing guide us through a symphony of apparent domestic bliss, a calm-looking, clean-cut interior dotted with pots...
Matthew Procter
Jan 8, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: Deleve [Roma Glova, Russia, 2020]
Sat before a bay window, exposed to the glistening lights of Moscow, and listening to the kind of music you would expect to hear at a...
Will Whitehead
Oct 10, 2021
Dimanche [Fatty Soprano & Shutterr, Canada, 2021]
In Dimanche, Fatty Soprano and Shutterr are at their dazzling, beguiling best. This entrancing short is intensely atmospheric, with...
Nia Jordan
Sep 26, 2021
SHORT FOCUS 2021: So That Nothing Changes [Francescu Artily, France, 2020]
So That Nothing Changes is a story of a homecoming that will be familiar to many – from the first awkward meet-the-family, to the stilted...
Jordon Briggs
Jul 31, 2021
Love, Blood, Pain [Magnum Borini, Brazil, 2020]
Love, Blood, Pain is visually arresting, but the film’s construction never allows any real story into its compiled imagery.
Jordon Briggs
Jul 31, 2021
Absence [Richard Marx, Germany/Ukraine, 2020]
Richard Marx’s surrealist tale, Absence, follows Lena, a woman enraptured by the moon and stars, and enraged by the murder of her husband...
Antonio Matei
Jul 31, 2021
Cremeschnitte [Yan Jin, United States, 2021]
Cremeschnitte is more a video art piece than a conventional movie and, because of that, it has a strong power to expose controversial issues
Natalia Brammen
Jul 29, 2021
Apocalypse Notes [Pierre Gaffié, France, 2020]
The post-apocalyptic sub-genre in film has been popular among various audiences going back to the earliest days of cinema.
Paromita Sengupta
Jul 23, 2021
Stray [Wanjiru Njendu, USA, 2020]
Stray by Wanjiru Njendu traverses between the real and the surreal, confronting the socially problematic issue of the disappearance of black
Dean Archibald-Smith
Jul 20, 2021
2020 [Heléna Antonio, Italy/UK, 2020]
2020 was that year that caught up with itself. Probably not since World War II has the global community been brought so starkly into...