Raada: The Banality of Big and Small Wounds
Varun Chounal and Anuj Jamadagni directed Raada takes its audiences on a ride through the last day of a boy ...
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Likeness: Mystery, Grief and Multiple Existential Crises
David A. Flores’s 15-minute Likeness depicts a woman’s search for her missing mother using AI, combining mystery with interiorised drama ...
Just a Broadway Baby: Vivacious Mary Ellen Ashley in Career Documentary
Patrick Riviere’s 24-minute documentary Just a Broadway Baby: Mary Ellen Ashley opens by hinging itself on the wise old lady ...
Dragon Fruit: Astute Sci-fi That Shows the Tiredness of It All
J.Brown’s Dragon Fruit runs to nearly half an hour, longer than your average short, but it makes the minutes count. ...
The Scene: Self-Referential Comedy At Its Most Non-Fictional
Connor Morley’s 6-minute comedy The Scene takes a nightmare that almost every director is painfully familiar with and turns the ...
Imperium: Living with a Failed Core
Indigo Parer’s Imperium examines the multifaceted expression of being a family bound by bitterness, resentment, and trauma going back generations. ...
POV: Slasher Flick with A Bit of Everything
Brian K. Rosenthal’s POV, seventeen minutes long, is a pastiche of slasher flicks, its indulgence in tropes the evidence of ...
The Coronating: Stunning Imagery and Excellent Performances in Fantasy Driven by Crisis of Faith
Justin Solaiman and Hudson King’s The Coronating is a gorgeously visualised 22-minute fantasy drama examining the conflict of a knight ...
Monét: Impermeable Friendships and Their Fatal Interruptions
Grief and death intermingle into a bitter mix in Kyung Sok Kim’s Monét, a 22-minute film about two best friends, ...
Flight into Darkness: Declarations of and Assertions Against Insanity
Alexander Ratter’s Flight into Darkness, a loose adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s book of the same name, retains the sibling relationship ...
