Hundreds of short films are released on the festival circuit yearly. We review those that spoke most to us here.
Does performing daily routines before a camera shift the meaning of your work? Recreating labour in informal Moroccan mining pits in collaboration with the town’s residents, Randa Maroufi’s L’mina draws from Bertolt Brecht’s alienation effect.
Francesco Sossai builds a queasy claustrophobia in the neo-giallo The Birthday Party.
