imported — Talking Shorts

Films

The Veiled City

Emptied Away

Review by Jason Todd

Natalie Cubides-Brady’s sci-fi city symphony is reminiscent of Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962).

Festivals

Festival REGARD — Saguenay International Short Film Festival

19—23.03.2025

There’s something incredibly satisfying to witnessing a perfectly formed line of around a hundred people in front of the town’s biggest theater that starts to grunt out of disappointment after they’ve been told the screening — a...

Talks Interviews

Sameh Alaa: “Cinema is a language we all share.”

Interview with Sameh Alaa by Inge Coolsaet

Alaa was the first Egyptian filmmaker to be part of the Official Short Film Competition in Cannes. He won the Palme d’Or that same year.

Talks Interviews

The Online Fascinations of NEOZOON

Interview with Neozoon by Mathieu Janssen

Using collages of found footage on YouTube—with subjects ranging from hunting videos to the unboxing of snakes ordered by mail—the collective NEOZOON uncovers patterns in human behaviour.

Talks Podcast

Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck

Episode 1

Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck is the head of Berlinale Shorts, the main short film competition at the Berlinale.