Hundreds of short films are released on the festival circuit yearly. We review those that spoke most to us here.
Photos from a family album reveal a city that perhaps used to exist. Sara Rajaei anchors these images not fully in reality but instead extracts the poetry from them.
Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker in Miranda Pennell’s concise desktop documentary.
The history of a town and its people, exquisitely told through the life story of the filmmaker’s great-grandmother.
Reflecting on the lives of dogs, Cecilie Flyger Hansen unlocks the true crux of their relationship with humans: affection can coexist with domination.
In exploring humankind’s intimate relationship with artificial intelligence, Inès Sieulle exposes our prejudices and tendencies as a species more than anything else.
