In the Shadow of the Cypress: An All-Around Triumph
At Berlinale, Ethan Hawke called all artistic effort a compassion engine. He must have had Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani’s ...
Tag: Drama Short Film Review
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent: A Stunningly Astute Massacre Drama
In truth, Nebojsa Slijepcevic’s The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Croatian: Covjek koji nije mogao sutjeti) is—and to great ...
A Lien: Shattering Drama on US immigration and the Home that is No More
Sam and David Cutler-Kreutz’s nimbly titled A Lien lets itself be cut up to pieces by the narrative of a ...
Anuja: Poverty, Family, and a Girl Just Starting to Come of Age
The cast of Adam J. Graves’ Anuja carries the film. The story of a Delhi factory worker girl negotiating with ...
1 Degré de Séparation: Big Family Drama and A Wedding
5pm Productions’ first short film 1 Degré de Séparation (directed by Sonia Rossier) is a drama that at least half ...
The Takeover: Two Wrongs, (Second Amendment) Rights, and a few Stages of Grief
Adrian Jules’ The Takeover pits one kind of villainy against another, and beneath this canopy devises a 13-minute psychological torture ...
Millie’s Care Free Day: Painstaking Quest for Things Better than Apathy and Exhaustion
Michael Licisyn’s 9-minute Millie’s Care Free Day is the film equivalent of a severed limb (no horror intended). Surely there ...
Mendo’s Carousel: Growing Past Old Patterns in Drama on the Complicated Nature of Grief
David Michael Maurer’s Mendo’s Carousel comes alive with the performance of Edi Gathegi as its deuteragonist in a frictious story ...
Dream Girl: A Thriller Packed With Drama & Lessons For Those Going Astray
Jeremy Max’s Dream Girl is sensational, tantalising and frightening, all at once. What could possibly go wrong with opting for ...
Distant Memories: Grief and Despair as Life Separates Itself from the Still Living
Chris Esper’s 10-minute Distant Memories is a drama of memories examining the experience of losing them, and through it, losing ...
