Hundreds of short films are released on the festival circuit yearly. We review those that spoke most to us here.
Elegant and deeply human, Atsushi Hirai’s Oyu is a carefully constructed homecoming haunted by loss.
No hollow performances of masculinity to mask the realities of grief in Guillermo García López’s Roma family tale. By exploring insecurities, his coming-of-age story becomes a metaphysical quest for reassurance.
In an attempt to tell a universal story, Nienke Deutz’s The Miracle arrives only at vagueness.