Tag: Drama

Ernest Anemone’s The Last Fool is a tense, intricately woven drama of a priest’s meeting with an extremist and convicted mass shooter. Just about every line of dialogue is precisely written, and thus surprising.  It is the last days of the mass shooter, Kyle (Max MacKenzie). No specifics are given as to his conviction but… Continue reading The Last Fool: Crime Drama of an Extremist High on Irony, and a Priest Who Had to Foot the Bill

The title of Amir Zargara’s A Good Day Will Come is elegiac and profoundly hopeful. Its inherent lament seems to crescendo into bittersweet hope, not because circumstances give cause for it, but because there is no other acceptable option. Based on the life and execution of wrestler Navid Afkari, the ending was never in question,… Continue reading A Good Day Will Come: Relentless Optimism in the Face of the Tyrannical State

Justin Mawardi’s Enough for you, an 8-minute romance drama made over the course of a day, is a bottle film following a point of crisis for a young man on his 27th birthday.  A collage of documentary footage, voiceover narration, and realist narrative, the film brings together disillusionment, loneliness, and old wounds, with the hope… Continue reading Enough for you: A Romance Drama on Growing Older

Alex K. E. Ching and Devan Yukio Fujinaka’s Kotsuage, written by Fujinaka, is beautiful in a way that almost instantly draws out sorrow from within you before it even begins to narrate or justify a cause. A brief, fragmentary glimpse into a man’s childhood, it picks through the confounding years for its most significant pieces. … Continue reading Kotsuage: Bitterness, Hope, and Profundity at the Close of the Day

Kama Sood’s 11-minute My David, a thriller drama, mixes pity and suspicion into an uncanny hour of socialising between a young delivery man and an old woman alone at home. Sood does not attempt with any particular zealousness to veil that the man may be overstating the urgency—or legitimacy, for that matter—of paying “overdue shipment… Continue reading My David: A Taut Thriller That Begs You to Not Like Its Leads

Perhaps one of the finest shorts to come out this year, Director/editor Arón Holden’s Dear Imelda set in a bucolic countryside of Ireland, explores the relationship between the eponymous Imelda (Rosemary Henderson) and her unwelcome grandson Ciaran (Declan Curran). That he is unwelcome becomes evident right from the opening scene, but the hilarity of the… Continue reading Dear Imelda: A Dramedy That Will Tug At Your Heart

Courtney Miller’s Love Music Shelter is a 19-minute glimpse into a feature length script that charts a talented, teenage, homeless singer’s path out of uncertainty. Surrounded by a motley community of characters who are equally desperate and down on their luck but rarely short on affection, Nat and her mother eke out a living with… Continue reading Love Music Shelter: Hollywood Success Drama in Indie Mode

Jamie Knox’s Of Late digs into the core of a personal tragedy just as its protagonist moves forward—if with her sight set downward—in the spiralling path out of grief. A heartbreaking account of the death of a dream, the 20-minute film then switches back and forth between the dual time of the before and long… Continue reading Of Late: A Story of Old Acquaintances, and How We Come to Share and Part Ways