A comprehensive collection of reviews featured on Talking Shorts in the past.
Focusing on a boy who finds dark spots covering his arms, Sarina Nihei’s narrative expands into a vast conspiracy.
In Doytcheva’s account of Bulgarian queer life, we are constantly reminded that identification does not have to be tied in to subjective manner of narrating.
With an unhurried pace and poetic imagery, Ana Edwards paints a portrait of an Aymara shepherd who lives on the high plateau at the Chile-Bolivia border.
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival’s Grand Prix eloquently highlights the filmmaker’s grudge against patriarchal, male-dominated societies. Rightfully so.
Jacqueline Lentzou seems to offer some solutions to our existential angst, as the title of her latest short film humorously suggests.
Two young Black men are on a hike together. There are sparks of intense eroticism. But Tebogo Malebogo is not one to kiss and tell, nor are his characters.
In her kaleidoscopic experimental film, Yuyan Wang both eulogises and critiques a society which is drowning in an overload of information.
Lillah Halla’s third short film opens underwater, below sea level, a place that has become the victim of relentless pollution. Though never in the foreground, Halla makes the topic sufficiently tangible to allow Menarca to be grounded in ecocritique.
Two Falangists have come to disturb the domestic evening rituals of Paz and her family. Pedro Peralta’s talent celebrates the dignity of his fearless protagonist.
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis’ Maalbeek—part collage film, part experimental video art—challenges the documentary genre.