Hundreds of short films are released on the festival circuit yearly. We review those that spoke most to us here.
A constant bombardment of stimuli, Stephen Lopez’s dystopian talking fish bromance is all the more interesting for its political undercurrents.
Portuguese filmmaker Jorge Jácome crafts something fresh and innovative in the beautifully restrained Shrooms.
Two characters are trapped in a colourless existence of apathy, their reality slipping away without them noticing.
In an attempt to adapt two myths at once, Isabella Margara’s short fails to live up to its premise and instead drowns it under a convoluted mix of different narrative planes.
A gruesome and eerie stop-motion fairytale, aesthetically influenced by the Brothers Grimm
In the north of Colombia, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country’s largest coal mine.
