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Films On The Circuit

Overnight Coup

The Impasse of a Mirage

Review by Bo Alfaro Decreton

Following a group of girls, Overnight Coup is a haptic teenage ballad that tracks the motions of an average night out against the backdrop of a changing socio-political landscape. The film won this year’s FeKK International Award.

Reads Notes

A Queer Space of Their Own

essay by Anders Lysne

Curated for Vienna Shorts 2026, Jul Trier’s programme on queer Austrian cinema precipitates a significant formal and thematic eclecticism that echoes the notion of queer itself as a call for the dismantling of familiar boundaries.

Talks Interviews

Love as an Open Question

Interview with Maya Sfakianaki by Anais Dragu

Convinced she could love all her partners equally, Maya Sfakianaki set out to make a film about polyamory. As one relationship intensified, the very principles she set out to explore started to clash with reality.

Films On The Circuit

Cairo Streets

Absence Leaves a Trace

Review by Hussein Al-Chokhdar

Moving between personal recollection and cinematic reflection, Abdellah Taïa’s Cairo Streets traces an intimate journey through a city marked by absence and desire.
Talks Interviews

No Way Out of the Dark Forest

Interview with Veneta Androva by Emma Mattiussi

Veneta Androva’s 3D-animated documentary Spray and Pray plunges us into the dark side of the internet, where the anti-LGBTQ+ political agenda serves the economic interests of an unscrupulous minority.

Upcoming

Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Festivals

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

3—8.11.2026
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...

2026 Reading List

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Poetics of Empathy

The House is Black by Forugh Farrokhzad

Review by Laura Stoeckler
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Atsushi Wada: The Quiet Master
On The Japanese Artist’s Singular Work
Essay by Chris Childs
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Memory in Orbit

Forgotten Spaceman by Elham Ehsas

Review by Oisín Kealy
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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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The Video Essay Finds Its Place at Film Festivals
Essay by Savina Petkova
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No Way Out of the Dark Forest
Veneta Androva on Spray and Pray
Interview with Veneta Androva by Emma Mattiussi
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The Sense of an Ending
Interview with Zuza Banasińska
Interview with Zuza Banasińska by Jan Tracz
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Sparking Curiosity
Mo Harawe on Life on the Horn and Will My Parents Come to See Me
Interview with Mo Harawe by Wilfred Okiche
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Utopia, Lost

City of Poets by Sara Rajaei

Review by Dora Leu
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Hearing Images Lie

The Girl Chewing Gum by John Smith

Review by Bjorn Gabriels
Orthodontics (Mohammadreza Mayghani, 2021)}
Toothache, Heartache

Orthodontics by Mohammadreza Mayghani

Review by Jason Todd
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The Online Fascinations of NEOZOON
Interview with Neozoon by Mathieu Janssen
Silence Is A Falling Body (Agustina Comedi, 2017)}
I’ve Found Myself: I Am Another
The Nostalgia Found In Archival Footage
Essay by Dora Leu
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We Live in an Autofictional Society
Examining Docufictional Works
Essay by Olivia Popp
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A Day of Magical Thinking
Guil Sela on Montsouris Park
Interview with Guil Sela by Jan Tracz
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Lost Generations
Fractured Identities of Post-War Former-Yugoslavia in Short Films
Essay by Patrick Gamble
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Loosely Based On…
The Malleable Boundaries of Adaptation
Essay by Marina Zigneli
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Digital Witnesses

Man Number 4 by Miranda Pennell

Review by Patrick Gamble
Leuven International Short Film Festival
Festivals

Leuven International Short Film Festival

27.11—05.12.2026
Founded in 1995 as an excuse to showcase the founders' own student shorts, the now EFA-, BAFTA- & Oscar-qualifying festival hasn’t lost its initial goal, always putting young, emerging film talent front and center. Taking place around...

2026 Reading List

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The Chant of Resistance

Barlebas by Malu Janssen

Review by Lina Heimann
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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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Choosing to Stay
Interview with Lucia G. Romero
Interview with Lucia G. Romero by Hana Kreševič
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Memory in Orbit

Forgotten Spaceman by Elham Ehsas

Review by Oisín Kealy
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All Welcome?

Sorry I am late (but I brought a choir) by Håkon Anton Olavsen

Review by Khushi Jain
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Fear Eats the Soul

God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles

Review by Susana Bessa
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Love in the Slaughterhouse

Skin on Skin by Simon Schneckenburger

Review by Panagiota Stoltidou

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.

Beyond Festivals: Alternative Exhibition Practices for Moving-Image Works

with Anna Linder, Afsun Moshiry, lau persijn, Savina Petkova
Talking Shorts presents “Beyond Festivals”, a new series of panel discussions exploring alternatives in short film exhibition, programming, and distribution, as a proposition to zoom in on underrepresented, local, and intently political...
Discussions

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

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...
Discussions

Beyond Festivals: The Evolving Economics and Distribution of Short Films

with José Gil, Robert Sowa, Joanna Żak, Ambre Anagnostides, Savina Petkova
Talking Shorts presents “Beyond Festivals”, a new series of panel discussions exploring alternatives in short film exhibition, programming, and distribution, as a proposition to zoom in on underrepresented, local, and intently political...
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