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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.
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.
Reads Notes

No Easy Resolutions

Essay by Leila Latif

A focus on experience rather than outcome is central to Suzannah Mirghani’s work, whose films shine a light on her Sudanese heritage, with nuance drawn from the community that birthed her.
Reads Notes

A Girl Is a Girl Is a Girl

Essay by Panagiota Stoltidou

Across different programmes of the 19th Vilnius Short Film Festival, Panagiota Stoltidou encounters films that probe the iconography of female adolescence.
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.

Upcoming

Filmfest Dresden
Festivals

Filmfest Dresden

14—19.04.2026
Dresden. Cradle of chocolate manufacturing, center of German animation and home of Filmfest Dresden, first held in 1989 (only a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall). If you drive across the Elbe towards Neustadt today, it's hard...

2026 Reading List

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Visible Fingerprints
Jyoti Mistry on We Come in Peace, They Said
Interview with Jyoti Mistry by Savina Petkova
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Petrol Station Lesbians

Bleifrei 95 by Emma Hütt, Tina Muffler

Review by Lina Heimann
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Lyrical Monsters
Yann Gonzalez on Hideous
Interview with Yann Gonzalez by Anas Sareen
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Carried Along
Interview with Helena Wittmann
Interview with Helena Wittmann by Laura Stoeckler
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Not With A Bang But A Whimper

Postcards from the End of the World by Konstantinos Antonopoulos

Review by Laurence Boyce
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Things Don’t Compute
Nicolas Gourault on Their Eyes
Interview with Nicolas Gourault by Sanne Jehoul
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Phantom Town

L’mina by Randa Maroufi

Review by Najrin Islam
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The Online Fascinations of NEOZOON
Interview with Neozoon by Mathieu Janssen
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Machinic Visions

Their Eyes by Nicolas Gourault

Review by Oliver Dixon
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Skirts Without Scots

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

Review by Susanne Meisenberg

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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