Hundreds of short films are released on the festival circuit yearly. We review those that spoke most to us here.
Feminism and sex triumph at the same time in Flóra Anna Buda’s big winner of the Cannes, Annecy, and Sarajevo short film prizes.
In his short film debut, Stephen Vuillemin explores parasocial relationships, highlighting the pervasive feeling of surveillance that has become increasingly prevalent in our digital age.
A haphazard episode of an introspective sitcom: All Gucci My Broski is a wild dive into the existential crisis of a single white man named Jonny.
Alice Brygo mixes documentary footage with computer-generated imagery to produce an intriguing, genre-defying admixture of realism and the surreal.
An unapologetic coming-of-age tale, La Perra dives straight into the paradoxes of female desire. A lonely and sometimes hurtful experience.
Two characters are trapped in a colourless existence of apathy, their reality slipping away without them noticing.
The history of a town and its people, exquisitely told through the life story of the filmmaker’s great-grandmother.
A gruesome and eerie stop-motion fairytale, aesthetically influenced by the Brothers Grimm
In an attempt to tell a universal story, Nienke Deutz’s The Miracle arrives only at vagueness.
In exploring humankind’s intimate relationship with artificial intelligence, Inès Sieulle exposes our prejudices and tendencies as a species more than anything else.
In Eglė Davidaviče’s deeply personal film, the exploration of self-acceptance is intrinsically connected with community.
How do we find ourselves in such tumultuous times? Self-taught animator Cillian Laurence Green reminds us that the world is ours to make and that it’s not all doom and gloom.
Through sketch-like animations, Tomek Popakul and Kasumi Ozeki skilfully capture teenage rage and rural isolation in contemporary Poland.
