Hundreds of short films are released on the festival circuit yearly. We review those that spoke most to us here.
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.
A constant bombardment of stimuli, Stephen Lopez’s dystopian talking fish bromance is all the more interesting for its political undercurrents.
Alice Brygo mixes documentary footage with computer-generated imagery to produce an intriguing, genre-defying admixture of realism and the surreal.
Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s striking visual poem proves how our capitalist way of thinking is unfit for human life and its sustainability.