Talking Shorts

Overnight Coup

The Impasse of a Mirage

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

When Grief Speaks in Folklore

Essay by Berenika Balcer

Berenika Balcer explores the five stages of grief as represented through the kukeri tradition in short films such as Grandpa’s Fur (2026), Kukeri (2023) and Pamfir (2022).

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

Spray and Pray

There is a Fungus Among Us

Review by Andy Stoeva

In Veneta Androva’s latest speculative documentary Spray and Pray, online hustlers and a humanoid mushroom spread their deepfake spores across the web.

Upcoming

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

When Grief Speaks in Folklore
On Loss and Childhood in Grandpa’s Fur

Essay by Berenika Balcer

The Chant of Resistance

Barlebas by Malu Janssen

Review by Lina Heimann

A Young Man Under the Influence
Interview with Gala Hernández López

Interview with Gala Hernández López by Elena del Olmo Andrade

Choosing to Stay
Interview with Lucia G. Romero

Interview with Lucia G. Romero by Hana Kreševič

Memory in Orbit

Forgotten Spaceman by Elham Ehsas

Review by Oisín Kealy

All Welcome?

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

Review by Khushi Jain

Fear Eats the Soul

God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles

Review by Susana Bessa

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.