Talking Shorts

What are your favourite short films of all time?

looking she said I forget

Bathroom Blues

Naomi Pacifique’s new short film dwells in melancholy and unlocks a form of intimacy that is unlike anything else we’ve seen bodies share on screen.

Reads Notes

Memory in Textures

Essay by Eneos Çarka

Certain films call to action our entire sensory sytem: the moving image is not only seen but heard and felt too. In shorts by Neritan Zinxhiria, Slava Doytcheva, Norika Sefa and Ana Hušman, layered textures of memory are tactically explored.

Films On The Circuit

Oyu

Last Rites

Review by Anas Sareen

Elegant and deeply human, Atsushi Hirai’s Oyu is a carefully constructed homecoming haunted by loss.

Films On The Circuit

Mast-del

Resistance Through Intimacy

Review by Teresa Vieira

Gestures of love reach further than any demonstration of hate in Mast-del, an experimental poem about forbidden desires, both inside and outside post-revolution Iranian cinema.

Talks Interviews

Inside the Small Research Department

Interview with Radu Jude by Hugo Emmerzael

The short film format is where prolific Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude feels most free. From political satires to oddball video essays, his shorts often mix philosophical analysis with playful experimentation.

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Festivals

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

05.11—10.11.2024

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur proves that the most exciting festivals often occur in small towns—probably because not much else happens there year-round. But the festival, near Zurich airport, is not just a local celebrity. Year...

2024 Reading List

The Modern Aesthetics of “Cool”

Cherries by Vytautas Katkus

Review by Matthew Chan

Blurred Lines

The Oasis I Deserve by Inès Sieulle

Review by Yan Guan Rosanna Suter

Resistance Through Intimacy

Mast-del by Maryam Tafakory

Review by Teresa Vieira

Alphaland

Alpha Kings by Faye Tsakas, Enrique Pedráza-Botero

Review by Anas Sareen

Return to Cuckooland
Nikola Ilić on Exit Through the Cuckoo’s Nest

Interview with Nikola Ilić by Antoni Konieczny

“It Is Better To Light A Candle Than Curse The Darkness”

A Present Light by Diogo Costa Amarante

Review by Laurence Boyce

“Oddly satisfying short film—LOOK!”

One Thousand And One Attempts To Be An Ocean by Wang Yuyan

Review by Laurence Boyce

Lyrical Monsters
Yann Gonzalez on Hideous

Interview with Yann Gonzalez by Anas Sareen

Utopia, Lost

City of Poets by Sara Rajaei

Review by Dora Leu

The Horror of Memory

It’s Raining Frogs Outside by Maria Estela Paiso

Review by Sabrina Vetter

Breaking The Norm
Isadora Neves Marques on Becoming Male in the Middle Ages

Interview with Isadora Neves Marques by Līga Požarska

Even At Night
Nastia Korkia on Dreams About Putin

Interview with Nastia Korkia by Daria Janke

Another Sunny Day

Watch The Fire Or Burn Inside It by Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

Review by Jason Todd

Empire of the Sun

Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays by Christian Avilés

Review by Olivia Popp

Film Or Elevated Video Game Critique?

Hardly Working by Total Refusal

Review by Vladan Petković

Desiring Young Woman

27 by Flóra Anna Buda

Review by Savina Petkova

Love and Fiction, Our Saviours!

Flores del otro Patio by Jorge Cadena