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The Veiled City

Emptied Away

review by Jason Todd

review by Jason Todd

Being exposed to archival footage, peering into humanity’s past through still or moving images may sometimes feel akin to digging into the …

An Avocado Pit

Living on the threshold

review by Sam Moore

The relationship at the heart of ‘An Avocado Pit’ — Ary Zara’s intimate, beguiling portrait of a trans sex worker — is defined by tension. …

2nd Person

Confessions of a city dweller

review by Nino Kovačić

In the opening scene, a mechanical crane picks through what seems to be — as it is closely framed it’s hard to specify — a sea of garbage. …

Staging Death

Translating Death

review by Jason Todd

For the sake of this text, let’s entertain the following thesis, and let us all agree to its plausibility. At least for now. It goes as …

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Tracking the Past
FILMFEST DRESDEN'S FOCUS ON SHORT FILMS FROM THE BASQUE COUNTRY AND CATALONIA
notes by Savina Petkova

“I wanted to make a film that was about the political ghosts of Brazil, the ones that linger on the landscape.”

— Janaina Wagner

interview by Savina Petkova

interview by Savina Petkova

‘Curupira and the Machine of the Destiny’, which screened at the London Short Film Festival’s International Competition, is one of the most …

“I want to destroy the …

— Jonas Erler

interview by Verena Bracher

At the 33rd FILMFEST DRESDEN, the initiative ‘Connecting Talents’ made young filmmakers from Germany and the Visegrád states come together …

Breaking The Norm

A conversation with Pedro Neves Marques

interview by Līga Požarska

Pedro Neves Marques talks about their latest short film, 'Becoming Male in the Middle Ages', which celebrates its North-American premiere …

Faking The Truth

A LOOK AT THE OEUVRE OF AUSTRIAN FILMMAKER CHRISTOPH SCHWARZ

interview by Susanne Gottlieb

Austrian filmmaker Christoph Schwarz knows how to unravel pointed observations of life and society by playing ironically with elements of …

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