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.
A strident critique of Germany’s relationship with some of today’s social and political realities at home and abroad, awarded the Alice Guy Prize at FIDMarseille.
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.
The Sower of Stars strongly evocates meditative practices, as Lois Patiño yearns for moments of rest, inner peace and undisguised self-reflection.
Gerard Ortín Castellví mixes his anthropological interests with his creative curiosities and turns his camera towards automated greenhouses in Agrilogistics.
Haig Aivazian's most daring leap into the world of film and a cogent attempt to tie together his interests through the form of found footage.
Hotel Royal is a complete work of fiction that draws heavily from the conditions of its creation, namely the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Killing of Čáhcerávga is not one, but five films. Each a manifesto, these films—like chapters in a book—form a cross-section of questions and statements on indigeneity, otherness, and longing.
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis’ Maalbeek—part collage film, part experimental video art—challenges the documentary genre.
Cross-referencing politics and body politics, reproduction and pandemics, Isadora Neves Marques creates a juxtaposition between a warning dystopia and a dangerous reality.
Jorge Jácome presents time in an associative series of hypnotic rêveries—an ode to the past so bittersweet that we have to be repelled from it at one point.