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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.
Films On The Circuit

Bleifrei 95

Petrol Station Lesbians

Review by Lina Heimann

The petrol station at the heart of Bleifrei 95 feels like its own universe: a cruising spot imbued with lesbian life and possibilities, and a place to come of age for the film’s protagonists.

Reads Focus

Encampment Cinema

Essay by Oliver Dixon

Hagiography or critique? Oliver Dixon explores tensions and divisions found in pro-Palestinian cinema, from recent so-called “encampment shorts” to Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville’s essay films.

Upcoming

Festivals

XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin

21—31.05.2026
The XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin has been held annually since 2006. XPOSED was founded as a community event for experimental short film, and stands for the belief that queer stories mean more than coming out and boy-meets-boy. The...

2026 Reading List

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Breaking The Norm
Isadora Neves Marques on Becoming Male in the Middle Ages
Interview with Isadora Neves Marques by Līga Požarska
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Love and Fiction, Our Saviours!

Flores del otro Patio by Jorge Cadena

Review by Savina Petkova
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Skirts Without Scots

Juck [Thrust] by Olivia Kasterbring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira

Review by Susanne Meisenberg
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
Vienna Shorts
Festivals

Vienna Shorts

26—31.05.2026
Do you adore strolling down the streets of a historical, beautiful, and cozy city? And what about dancing until late for six days in a row (you know, technically speaking, it is called “networking”)? If you fancy all that: welcome to...

2026 Reading List

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Familiar Haunts
Interview with Lê Ngọc Duy
Interview with Lê Ngọc Duy by Jason Tan Liwag
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Petrol Station Lesbians

Bleifrei 95 by Emma Hütt, Tina Muffler

Review by Lina Heimann
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Atsushi Wada: The Quiet Master
On The Japanese Artist’s Singular Work
Essay by Chris Childs
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Postcard from Rio
Interview with Felipe Casanova
Interview with Felipe Casanova by Elif Türkan Erişik
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Carried Along
Interview with Helena Wittmann
Interview with Helena Wittmann by Laura Stoeckler
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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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Big City Life
On Chantal Akerman’s Shorts
Essay by Michaël Van Remoortere
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Resistance Through Intimacy

Mast-del by Maryam Tafakory

Review by Teresa Vieira
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Saving Stories and Savouring Paradoxes
Anna Vasof on Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories
Interview with Anna Vasof by Savina Petkova
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Choosing to Stay
Interview with Lucia G. Romero
Interview with Lucia G. Romero by Hana Kreševič
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The Parrot-Person in Koki, Ciao
Sentimentality Without Oversimplification
Student paper by Saulė Augustinaitė
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Bedside Terrors

happiness by Fırat Yücel

Review by Öykü Sofuoğlu
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Animating the Naïve
Maida Srabović on Fačuk
Interview with Maida Srabović by Patrick Gamble

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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