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Hundreds of short films are released on the festival circuit yearly. We review those that spoke most to us here.
A haphazard episode of an introspective sitcom: All Gucci My Broski is a wild dive into the existential crisis of a single white man named Jonny.
Zhang Dalei’s throwback to the 1990 Asian Games is inherently enigmatic yet rooted in ambiguity, leaving the viewer to fill in the emotional gaps.
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.
Not a skateboard story, but a skateboard-inspired film: Cul-de-Sac urges characters and viewers to contemplate life, whatever that entails.
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.
Two nun-like identical twins go silently through life in an almost unconscious state, portrayed by two elegant actors that patiently wait for their portraits to be drawn.
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.
How do we find ourselves in such tumultuous times? Self-taught animator Cillian Laurence Green reminds us that the world is ours to make and that it’s not all doom and gloom.
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