The Sikh Soldier: War Heroes and Colonial Victims
Joseph Archer and Sky Cheema’s 15-minute war drama The Sikh Soldier views the bleakness of heroism in the colonial context ...
Tag: Drama Short Film Review
What We Did Yesterday: Replacing Vacuous Broad Strokes with Intricate Groundwork
Matt René’s What We Did Yesterday splits the narrative into three parts, each led by one of its three characters. ...
Trinou: A Quest for Life’s Vibrancy
Nejib Kthiri’s Trinou explores the inner life of a withdrawn, wheelchair-bound teenager in the Tunisian countryside, limited first by his ...
Dictionary: Graphing Love in Seven Stages
Elena Viklova’s Dictionary is a brief, diagrammatic account of a relationship viewed as a progression through the seven stages of ...
Lambing: Parents, and the Baby They Must Choose
When going into Katie McNeice’s Lambing one does not (but perhaps should) expect to be momentarily devastated by the fate ...
Ill Fares the Land: Guilt, Fear and Conflict in a Story (Not) About a Mermaid
Patrick Ireland’s Ill Fares the Land succeeds in creating the impression of something alive out of itself. And indeed it ...
Mandje: The Limits of Greed and the Steep Fall Beyond
Cameron Currin and Cody Kristapovich’s 18-minute Mandje is a loose adaptation of The Fisherman and His Wife (adapted by Josh ...
God Willing: Tale of Slow Ruin and its Violent Grief
Valentina Tross’ God Willing, written by Hooriah Riaz, is ambitiously and beautifully melodramatic, if somewhat constrained by its runtime. At ...
Playground: The View from the Left Behind Daughter
Playground constructs a duality of experience for its child protagonist in her relationship with her mother: frightening chaos on the ...
The Countryman: Negotiation with the Rules of the Western
Andy Kastelic’s The Countryman has blossomed out of the Western, owes its distinction to the genre, and leaves behind the ...
