A comprehensive collection of reviews featured on Talking Shorts in the past.
Through an experimental film essay, filmmaker Coline Confort aims to capture the “rupture and repair” of a relationship.
The 1983 French television interview with actor Maria Schneider has lost little of its relevance in the intervening 40 years. In these reenactments of the interview, everything appears to be the same—but is it?
The latest film by prolific German film author Jan Soldat begs the question of why cinema is so good at portraying spectacular deaths instead of authentic ones.
Rita Barbossa presents a woman in need for real connection and underlines the right to embrace the pleasures of life without shame.
Through symbolism and suggestive framing, Zoljargal Purevdash tells a story of contemporary Mongolia’s troubles.
Mulika is a perfect example of Africanfuturism, reconnecting local African heritage to the optimism inherent to Black contemporary sci-fi tales.
The Sower of Stars strongly evocates meditative practices, as Lois Patiño yearns for moments of rest, inner peace and undisguised self-reflection.
This Queer Palm winning short film holds an unattainable allure: unconventionally poetic yet accessible, personal but universal.
In a clever and playful moral, the extensive process of constructing a tree house charts the significance of time.
Douwe Dijkstra’s films are always simultaneously making-ofs, as he lifts the curtain on movie magic that employs green screen.
Loneliness plays a crucial role in Evi Kalogiropoulou’s coming-of-touch story.
Jean-Sébastien Chauvin’s city symphony generates affect before analytics, allowing it to continuously play with expectations and observations as it progresses.
With its contourless, bright, and lively 3D animation, Sierra captures the microaggression that is undeniably present in every example of parental expectations, and does so in a genteel way.
There is something in these characters that writer-director Risto-Pekka Blom feels compelled to denounce and it soon becomes evident who his real targets are.
Gerard Ortín Castellví mixes his anthropological interests with his creative curiosities and turns his camera towards automated greenhouses in Agrilogistics.
