NC&NA Award — Talking Shorts

Between Paradise and Perdition

Interview with Tomek Popakul, Kasumi Ozeki by Hugo Emmerzael

Now nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2025, directors Tomek Popakul and Kasumi Ozeki discuss their dreamlike animated short about life in a Polish village, where tenderness and cruelty exist in equal measure.

NC&NA Award

We Are Your Friends

Interview with Inès Sieulle by Jason Anderson

Now nominated for Talking Shorts’ New Critics & New Audiences Award 2025, Inès Sieulle talks about her dazzling AI-film The Oasis I Deserve.

NC&NA Award

Lies Alive

Interview with Stephen Vuillemin by Savina Petkova

Now nominated for Talking Shorts’ New Critics & New Audiences Award 2025, Stephen Vuillemin talks about his gorgeously animated short film A Kind of Testament.

NC&NA Award

Playing Along

Interview with Anna Martí Domingo by Tianyu Jiang

Now nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2025, at the heart of Anna Martí Domingo’s Boys is the gradual construction of masculinity in its toxic iterations.

NC&NA Award

A Day of Magical Thinking

Interview with Guil Sela by Jan Tracz

If anything terrible happens, best to laugh it off. French filmmaker Guil Sela knows it best, as he has experienced it firsthand in Montsouris Park, now nominated for the New Critics & New Audience Award 2025.

NC&NA Award

To Look Inwards is to Look Outwards

Interview with Ana Gurdiș, Elena Chirilă by Dora Leu

Taking us through various difficult memories from early childhood up to the present, Ana Gurdiș and Elena Chirilă’s video poem is now nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2025.