Gold: A Spot Of Shining Optimism
Charles Solomon’s Gold takes place at a time in Nigeria’s history marked by political violence. The story of a family ...
Tag: Drama Short Film Review
Last Lesson: Homophobia And The Slivers of Hope Despite It
Badar’s 10-minute Last Lesson takes on a homophobic parent and her instant prejudice against the piano teacher once the latter’s ...
Withdrawal: An Account Of Addiction And The Way Out
Jacob Harding’s 25-minute drama Withdrawal is exactly what its name implies. A man with a multitude of personality issues battles ...
Left Behind: On The Isolation During And After Abuse
Through Left Behind Matthew R. Ford details and explores the aftermath of relationship abuse and all the ways it leaches ...
Two Knights: Faith, Bitterness And Love Over Millennia
Piotr Szkopiak’s Two Knights is a dark-toned story of anger, questioning righteousness, morality, and the bounds of religion and duty. ...
An Island Drifts: Impossible Guilt And Relentless Isolation In Gut-Wrenching Drama
Vivian Ip’s An Island Drifts has its characters faced with irreconcilably large consequences to their actions. The characters, a little ...
Shutter the Doors: Grieving The Loss Of A Meaningful Place
Sheri Sussman’s Shutter the Doors is keenly poignant in a post-COVID world. A 14-minute proof-of-concept about the shutting down of ...
Groomsday: The Price Of Others’ Cruelty
Kyle Coffman’s Groomsday, featuring Trystan Colburn in a second collaboration with Coffman, chronicles the story of a couple from their ...
Borrowed Time: A Portrait Of Familial Grief
Ginevra Gentili’s 19-minute Borrowed Time is a visually beautiful drama about three generations of women faced with grief while older ...
Faces of Dead Women: Revenge, Trauma’s Offspring
Joshua Nelson’s Faces of Dead Women is a 40-minute rape-revenge drama with a collective of survivors instead of a singular ...
