Madeleine Raven
Jan 9, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: Yuluu [Fatima Kried, UK, 2021]
Yuluu is strikingly simple at first glance, but this downplays the use of animation techniques to present a child’s view of war and...
Shane Farrell
Jan 9, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: The Fell Runner [Alex Simpson/Phillip Suddick, UK, 2019]
Alex Simpson and Phillip Suddick’s short film poetically explores personal battles and unity in the relationship between humanity and...
Juliette Howard
Jan 9, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: A Knowing of Loss [Marc Puig Biel, Spain, 2020]
Coming-of-age summer films invariably conjure up images of sun-bleached hair, timid first love, endless boredom, and hours on end spent...
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...
Dean Archibald-Smith
Dec 29, 2021
Moment of Truth [Lea Pfandler, USA, 2022]
A melancholic and muted jazz trumpet purrs over sumptuous piano lines and sauntering double bass, as we fade into a monochrome image of 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...
Will Whitehead
Aug 8, 2021
All of Our Shadows [Ruth Beni/Daniel Greaves, UK, 2020]
The film details a day in the life of a young boy plagued by anxiety, terrified of the knife crime and gang violence...
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.