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Hundreds of short films are released on the festival circuit yearly. We review those that spoke most to us here.
Julie Petríková’s film Dancing in the Light, which screened at XPOSED Queer Film Festival in Berlin earlier this year, focuses on 1980s videographer and New York queer icon Nelson Sullivan, recuperating his memory and love for his community, but also delving into his particular way of video-making during an era that was still not in the habit of turning the camera the other way round, onto the self.
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.
The history of a town and its people, exquisitely told through the life story of the filmmaker’s great-grandmother.
With an unpretentious approach to existential questions, Finnish filmmaker Hanna Hovitie offers a perfect example of what humility can do in art.
Not a skateboard story, but a skateboard-inspired film: Cul-de-Sac urges characters and viewers to contemplate life, whatever that entails.
Faye Tsakas and Enrique Pedráza-Botero’s incisive documentary incursion into the lives of teenage findoms is also a smart commentary on contemporary American society.
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