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Reads Notes

A Camera in Hand

Essay by Heitor Augusto

Lucía Salas’ programme for Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg offers a view of what militant cinema has meant in Latin America, mainly in the 1970s, while interrogating how we relate to this filmmaking approach today.
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 Podcast

Short Circuit: Bridging Access in Film Festivals

by Veronica Buccino, Nathasha Orlando Kappler, Kai Yanson, Deanne
In this episode of “Short Circuit”, we ask ourselves: how accessible is the film festival ecosystem today? Doris Bauer (Vienna Shorts), filmmaker Julia Mellen, and Djamila Grandits (CineCollective) discuss the barriers, opportunities,...
Talks Interviews

Collective Visions

Interview with Arwa Aburawa, Turab Shah by Alonso Aguilar

Rewriting official histories, Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah investigate the mutation of geographies in both their short films and their London-based film exhibition project Other Cinemas. The filmmaking duo was the artist in focus at last month’s Leiden Shorts.

Films On The Circuit

God is Shy

Fear Eats the Soul

Review by Susana Bessa

Brought to life by Japanese guro animation traits, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears until their game takes an unexpected turn in Jocelyn Charles’ festival hit God is Shy.

This Summer

Festivals

DokuFest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival

7—15.08.2026
DokuFest is the largest film festival in Kosovo. Recognised as one of the top film and music event in South East Europe, DokuFest is an EFA-nominating festival for short films, as well as a BAFTA-qualifying festival for shorts. In August,...

2025 Reading List

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Samuel Suffren’s Trilogy of Selfhood

Blue Heart by Samuel Suffren

Review by Olivia J. Bennett
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Phantom Town

L’mina by Randa Maroufi

Review by Najrin Islam
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To Paint the Synthetic Scenery, Bodily
Yuyan Wang on Green Grey Black Brown
Interview with Wang Yuyan by Tianyu Jiang
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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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Inside My Head
Mohamed Bourouissa’s Genealogy of Violence
Review by Rafael Fonseca
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The Parrot-Person in Koki, Ciao
Sentimentality Without Oversimplification
Student paper by Saulė Augustinaitė
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The Long Way Home
Short Films On Kosovar Histories
Essay by Savina Petkova
FeKK - Ljubljana International Short Film Festival
Festivals

FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival

17—22.08.2026
There’s a certain charm exhuming from film festivals helmed by small teams. You can almost smell the love for the art form from miles away; cinephilia is truly at the core of why these people are running from A to B on a daily basis to...

2026 Reading List

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Fear Eats the Soul

God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles

Review by Susana Bessa
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To Imagine the End of the World
Ecologies of an Apocalypse Foretold
Essay by Oisín Kealy
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Dania Bdeir: “Life is more liberating if we are able not to think in categories.”
Interview with Dania Bdeir by Niv Fux
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Utopia, Lost

City of Poets by Sara Rajaei

Review by Dora Leu
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Flowers Left in the Archive
Essay by Sabrina Rose
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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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Digital Witnesses

Man Number 4 by Miranda Pennell

Review by Patrick Gamble
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Making Room
Interview with Kevin Walker and Irene Zahariadis
Interview with Kevin Walker, Irene Zahariadis by Marina Zigneli
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Exiled Queerness

The Archive: Queer Nigerians by Simisolaoluwa Akande

Review by Adham Youssef
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A Girl Is a Girl Is a Girl
Female Bodies Between Play and Display
Essay by Panagiota Stoltidou
Concorto Film Festival
Festivals

Concorto Film Festival

22—29.08.2026
There are countless Italian film festivals, and though this is not scientifically proven, a vast majority of them probably will have you sit in white monobloc chairs. Those who’ve enjoyed visiting one such festival will know exactly what...

2026 Reading List

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Endless Summer
Nevena Desivojević on Bright Summer Days
Interview with Nevena Desivojević by Hava Masaeva
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Postcard from Rio
Interview with Felipe Casanova
Interview with Felipe Casanova by Elif Türkan Erişik
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Making Light Work
Essay by Siavash Minoukadeh
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Fear Eats the Soul

God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles

Review by Susana Bessa

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: 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...
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

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...
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