
![Quadrant [Marta Arjona Blasca & Mei Casabona, Spain, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_7bd5d8f805f24d86b936f04200d9e846~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_210,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/9b7dde_7bd5d8f805f24d86b936f04200d9e846~mv2.webp)
Quadrant [Marta Arjona Blasca & Mei Casabona, Spain, 2017]
Marta Arjona Blasca and Mei Casabona’s Quadrant is a socially conscious dance film that interrogates modern notions of gender roles and...
Alison Girault
Nov 15, 2018

![Lemon [Timothy Michael Cooper, USA, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_2d240823b4af4ad590fa1e1c3c50babe~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/9b7dde_2d240823b4af4ad590fa1e1c3c50babe~mv2.webp)
Lemon [Timothy Michael Cooper, USA, 2017]
How well do we really know the people we love? And at what moment can one really decide when it’s the right time to devote the rest of...
Alison Girault
Nov 6, 2018

![The Garden of Gethsemane [Galina Altman, Russia, 2018]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_897b6431a4e241dd9daba8b03602872e~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/9b7dde_897b6431a4e241dd9daba8b03602872e~mv2.webp)
The Garden of Gethsemane [Galina Altman, Russia, 2018]
The shot of a woman’s hand caressing the tips of barley in a sprawling countryside field beneath a clear blue sky, instantly recalls the...
Walt Eastfield
Nov 5, 2018

![Hindsight (In Real Time) [Tom Worrall, UK, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_b87392a78e1d42beb490bf068ea65110~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_210,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/9b7dde_b87392a78e1d42beb490bf068ea65110~mv2.webp)
Hindsight (In Real Time) [Tom Worrall, UK, 2017]
Hindsight (In Real Time) takes places in an alternate world where everyone knows when and how they are going to die. Peter Welles is the...
Walt Eastfield
Nov 5, 2018

![Utakata [Luca Ogawa Depardon, USA, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_514c9becc2e2444eab09fd94b2697240~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/9b7dde_514c9becc2e2444eab09fd94b2697240~mv2.webp)
Utakata [Luca Ogawa Depardon, USA, 2017]
“We are all ants! And ants are inside you!” reads the cryptic tagline from Luca Ogawa Depardon’s playfully surrealistic Utakata....
Walt Eastfield
Nov 3, 2018

![For Liberty [Roan Bibby, USA, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_ca9de1ddcc5b4ab9ba84f31bef4a768e~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/9b7dde_ca9de1ddcc5b4ab9ba84f31bef4a768e~mv2.webp)
For Liberty [Roan Bibby, USA, 2017]
The film opens with a dream sequence of our protagonist Jim peering through a telescope at a bikini-clad woman in sunglasses. He wakes...
Patricia Watney
Nov 3, 2018

![A City of Nature [Felicity Silverthorne, Ireland, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_e898dc8f96504bddb1b2c9d90e47fa86~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/9b7dde_e898dc8f96504bddb1b2c9d90e47fa86~mv2.webp)
A City of Nature [Felicity Silverthorne, Ireland, 2017]
A City of Nature is a 5-minute documentary about environmental conservation efforts in Galway, Ireland. It is a very low-budget ‘talking...
Walt Eastfield
Nov 3, 2018

![SHORT FOCUS 2018: Iconoclast [Alex Haney, USA, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_8fbe95a78e8b4e3e9f84b0117e78e5bd~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/9b7dde_8fbe95a78e8b4e3e9f84b0117e78e5bd~mv2.webp)
SHORT FOCUS 2018: Iconoclast [Alex Haney, USA, 2017]
Alex Haney’s Iconoclast is a bold and compelling exploration of shame and denial told through the eyes of a black, Jewish and gay...
Walt Eastfield
Nov 1, 2018

![SHORT FOCUS 2018 – JURY PRIZE: XCTRY [Bill Brown, USA, 2018]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_350ab3a58747492aa0063f5d07f65266~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_236,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/9b7dde_350ab3a58747492aa0063f5d07f65266~mv2.webp)
SHORT FOCUS 2018 – JURY PRIZE: XCTRY [Bill Brown, USA, 2018]
Bill Brown’s paean to the romance of the road is a wonderfully constructed visual journal and an artful document that elegantly captures...
Michael K. Adler
Oct 30, 2018

![Number 13 [Jonell Rowe, UK, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_a5ddc26c9cc04ec791791a8f3fead016~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/9b7dde_a5ddc26c9cc04ec791791a8f3fead016~mv2.webp)
Number 13 [Jonell Rowe, UK, 2017]
We’ve all been there before: stuck in a seemingly never-ending supermarket queue that dwindles only at the mercy of the dead-eyed, grumpy...
Michael K. Adler
Oct 1, 2018