In Between the Sound of My HummingBird: Surviving Trauma with Only Memory for Comfort
Seun Faleke’s In Between the Sound of My HummingBird is an account of past trauma, drawn up in the non-linear ...
Tag: Drama
Last Set: Swapping Self-Improvement for Self-Annihilation
Joe Acierno’s 19-minute sports drama Last Set grapples with the fine, destructive line between ambition and obsession as two bodybuilders ...
Small Showers: Shame and Guilt Fester in the Shadows of Grief
Alex Rosales’ Small Showers, a 17-minute drama on a couple’s fraught relationship in the wake of bereavement, is agonisingly naked. ...
Boring Barry & His Imaginary Friend: Big Emptiness and Small Hopes in Depression Dramedy
But for the Twilight blue colour palette, Drew Bierut’s Boring Barry & His Imaginary Friend opens like a rom-com: optimistic ...
Harlem Fragments: Haunted Memory and Valiant Attempts to Save Love
Cameron Tyler Carr’s 18-minute sci-fi drama Harlem Fragments is not a trip down memory lane. It is an adventure spanning ...
Aroma: An Everyday Cafe Comedy-Drama
Oliver Ward’s Aroma is a 10-minute short set in a modern North London cafe but has the flavour of post-war ...
Trouble: Faces in the Crowd of a Century-Old Story
Jonathan Shaw’s Trouble, an Irish Civil War drama through the eyes of a bereaved family, is brimming with an oppressive ...
The Purpose: Failing Youth and Crises All Around in Drama on Ambition
A morbidly comical drama about two young women with dreams in the time of plague and war, Dimitri Nasennik’s The ...
Hamdardi: Recognition and Compassion Under the State’s Nose
Stefan Fairlamb and Ashley Tabatabai’s Hamdardi, a retrospective look at Trump’s Muslim ban seven years ago, splits the narrative between ...
My Miracle Boy: Psychological Horror and Coming of Age in One
Sarab Sahni’s My Miracle Boy (writing credits shared between Caroline Gordon Elliott, Alam Virk, and Sahni) contains the sparks of ...
