Hundreds of short films are released on the festival circuit yearly. We review those that spoke most to us here.
Using archive materials, Chasing the Sun: El Shatt attempts to reconstruct a fragmented memory and touches on historical facts about El Shatt, the largest refugee camp in the Sinai desert in Egypt during WWII.
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.
More than a photograph of an event, Isabel Medeiros’ Enlighten works as an evocation. It embraces the overwhelming fact that transformation and degradation are inescapable natural processes.
A visual history of protest and grief, and a chronicle of the public square as an immutable witness to a cycle of revolt.
Gestures of love reach further than any demonstration of hate in Mast-del, an experimental poem about forbidden desires, both inside and outside post-revolution Iranian cinema.
The history of a town and its people, exquisitely told through the life story of the filmmaker’s great-grandmother.
Awarded the Principi Award at Lago Film Fest, Simisolaoluwa Akande’s film is an ode to queer people from the Global South.
The ghosts of the past come face to face with the present and rural life is celebrated in Fermín Sales’ found footage documentary.
