Zaara: A Budding Filmmaker’s Dilemma Of Coping With A Reality That Doesn’t Match Her Dreams
Director-writer Hassan Raza’s 35:00-minute-long Zaara is many things at once. It’s a social drama, filmed with the distinct style of...
Lea: Growing Up Through The Bleaker Days Of Childhood
There is something about films like Lea that is so absorbingly intimate that seeing the last of the end credits...
Plastic Fingers: Uplifting Portrayal Of Life After Abuse And With Mental Illness
How do you work a heavy subject without it sagging under its own weight? David J Paradise attempts to answer...
400 Days Later: A Closer Look At The Effects Of The Pandemic On The Theatre Industry
Director/editor/DoP Stephen Bell’s 09:45 minute long film picks on the theatre industry. And, by focusing on the life of one...
I Still Am: Beginning At The End Of Abuse
A thriller impressively made during lockdown, Tara Lynn Rye and Simon O'Keefe's 11-minute I Still Am takes a psychological approach...
The Naked Woman: On Secret Doubt And Painful Regret
The thesis of Allie Avital's The Naked Woman is perhaps that regret is corrosive. The 16-minute film opens on a...
To The Girl That Looks Like Me: Powerful Portrayal Of Anger And Self-Actualization
Ewurakua Dawson-Amoah's poetic short, co-written by Dawson-Amoah and Adeleke Ode, To The Girl That Looks Like Me summarises a key...
Forever & Always: A Heartfelt Story Straight From The High Schools
Writer-director Jacob Ward’s Forever & Always carries the hallmarks of the love stories we have all witnessed, or better still,...
Point Symmetry: The Aftermath Of Hate
The 16-minute documentary, Point Symmetry does something unusual: it highlights the experience of a daughter confronting the legacy of having...
Ghost Searchers: Subtly Undoes Horror Tropes
Neil George's Ghost Searchers upholds the tradition of goofy paranormal investigators in potentially life-threatening situations, tied neatly with a happy...
