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Reads Notes

Making Light Work

Essay by Siavash Minoukadeh

In a short film programme curated by artist-filmmaker Randa Maroufi, our perception of global workers and labour—the main theme of this year’s FILMFEST DRESDEN—is questioned and, potentially, restored.
Films On The Circuit

Blue Heart

Samuel Suffren’s Trilogy of Selfhood

Review by Olivia J. Bennett

In Blue Heart, the final instalment in Haitian filmmaker Samuel Suffren’s paternal trilogy, doubling becomes a continual quest: a return to himself through the figure of his father.

Reads Focus

The Baltic Burden: Between Departure and Stagnation

Essay by Emel-Elizabeth Tuulik, Livia Maria Sîrbu, Elizabete Didža

According to 2ANNAS’s Emerging Critics, the future of Baltic cinema may lie in resisting the transformation of the so-called “Baltic burden” into a fixed aesthetic.
Talks Interviews

Deep Listening, Quiet Defiance

Interview with Aileen Ye by Hugo Emmerzael

With “Sounds from the Underground”, a programme by filmmaker, visual artist and curator Aileen Ye, cinema is tuned to a different wavelength. Over five films, Ye’s curation for Go Short turns listening itself into a radical gesture, exploring sound as a way to remember, resist and reach for freedom.
Reads Notes

Against the Eye of Empire

Essay by Arta Barzanji

In a short film programme curated by film journal Ultra Dogme for Glasgow Short Film Festival, visibility is disclosed as one of Empire’s preferred instruments. But the films themselves deny transparent access: refusal becomes formal before it becomes thematic.

Happening now

Festivals

Friss Hús

28.05—03.06.2026
Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival is Hungary’s only Oscar-qualifying festival. Friss Hús is a showcase for the newest and most exciting Hungarian and international short films, attracting sold-out screenings and...

2026 Reading List

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To Be or Not to Be In The Pantry?

Magid / Zafar by Luis Hindman

Review by Sabrina Rose
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The Parrot-Person in Koki, Ciao
Sentimentality Without Oversimplification
Student paper by Saulė Augustinaitė
Leiden Shorts
Festivals

Leiden Shorts

28.05—02.06.2026
Leiden Shorts was established in 2009 as a new-born platform for short films and has since grown into one of the most important short film events in the Netherlands. We envision Leiden Shorts as an alternative creative space for national...

2026 Reading List

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Deep Listening, Quiet Defiance
Interview with Aileen Ye
Interview with Aileen Ye by Hugo Emmerzael
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A Young Man Under the Influence
Interview with Gala Hernández López
Interview with Gala Hernández López by Elena del Olmo Andrade
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Phantom Town

L’mina by Randa Maroufi

Review by Najrin Islam
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
Festivals

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg

02—07.06.2026
Hardly any festival has such a legendary reputation as Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (which, by the way, is one of the reasons why the author of these lines has dedicated himself to the short cinematic form). From the lovingly designed festival...

2026 Reading List

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The Long Way Home
Short Films On Kosovar Histories
Essay by Savina Petkova
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Affectionate Counter-Narratives
Elahe Esmaili on A Move
Interview with Elahe Esmaili by Savina Petkova
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Against the Eye of Empire
The Struggle over Imperial Vision
Essay by Arta Barzanji
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Postcard from Rio
Interview with Felipe Casanova
Interview with Felipe Casanova by Elif Türkan Erişik
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Keep Filming
Palestinian Short Films Towards Liberation
Essay by Öykü Sofuoğlu
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Petrol Station Lesbians

Bleifrei 95 by Emma Hütt, Tina Muffler

Review by Lina Heimann
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Surrounded by Heads and Bodies
Tracing the Contours of a Corporeal Cinema
Essay by Elif Türkan Erişik
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Protecting the Palestinian Narrative
A Conversation with Gaza Film Unit’s Eslam Saqqa and Ayman Alazraq
Interview with Eslam Saqqa, Ayman Alazraq by Sanne Jehoul
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Phantom Town

L’mina by Randa Maroufi

Review by Najrin Islam

Discussions

Working with partner festivals, we organise panel talks, keynotes, and other formats to foster discussions. Recordings are published here to continue the conversation online.

When Impact is the Aesthetic

with Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan Sadetło Scott, Tracy Rector, Jason Ryle
European short film culture often treats impact as an added value; Indigenous filmmaking has long treated it as a core artistic principle. With the Indigenous Cinema Alliance (ICA) represented at the European Short Film Market in...
Discussions

What Short Films Fight For (And How)

with Elahe Esmaili, Nicolas Khabbaz, Sacha Prokopenko, Anne Gaschütz
How can cinema promote radical change? Hosted by the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in collaboration with Talking Shorts, this panel conversation tackled ideas about upholding solidarity and care in times of budget cuts...
Leiden Shorts
Discussions

Rethinking the Short Film Format in a Shifting Media Landscape

with Julian Ross, Jade Wiseman, Niels Putman, Oana Ghera
Traditionally seen as stepping stones to features, short films now hold a more complex and valuable place in today’s screen culture. This panel challenges old paradigms and explores how shorts function as a creative and professional form...
Discussions

The “Short Film” and Its Audience

with Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck, Samir Karahoda, Sigrid Hadenius-Ebner
A panel talk on audience development for short films through programming and filmmaking. This conversation took place during DokuFest’s 23rd edition with Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (Berlinale Shorts), Samir Karahoda (DokuFest), and...
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