Short Film Reviews

Shira Haimovici’s The Launderette of Salvation is a short film about belief and faith and the film manages to make an unexpected impact in a very short span of 3:41 minutes. The story follows Sabina, a devout catholic who owns a self-service launderette in East London. Posters of Jesus are found on every wall in the establishment. As…

Directed by Chris Love, Ian’s Realm Saga is your extended trailer to a longer potential project. Based on popular author D.L. Gardner’s fantasy adventure…

David Teixeira’s Mater is a horror flick that centers around the lengths a religious woman is willing to go to in order to save her dying mother. Now, horror…

Elevators, as everyone knows by this point, is a prime spot for mischief. Of all kinds. Under the precise hands of writer-director Forman Howes ‘Going Up’ introduces us to Raff the dissatisfied hitman, Finn the motormouth and Paloma the wide-eyed goth. Hired by Paloma (a delightful Lillian Doucet-Roche) to kill Finn (Logan Fenske), Raff…

16-year-old Nabila sneaks out of her home. It’s dark and the air feels thick, cautious even. The lovers meet and exchange promises and hopes for a brighter…

Paul Becker’s Connie + Consuelo is not a musical but it certainly has the flair and theatricality of one, with comic undertones thrown in for good measure. Set…

One of the more remarkable aspects of Bonnie Ryan’s Real. Live. Girl. are the two intertwining worlds of neon-lit webcam shows and sombre, ever-slipping reality of Alzheimer’s. Starkly different, their blend is a tricky business and Ryan manages to accomplish it with dexterity. Rachel Nichols’ Jennifer is the link that connects these: she…

502 people were laid off at a factory, including the employee of the month. One turned to vengeance - with DIY masks and packing tape. Chris McCaleb’s 15…

Directed, produced and written by Asa Derks, Singularity Stories Vol. 1 is an aesthetically pleasing take on a conscious A.I. algorithm that has awoken at a…

Death, many would argue, is hardest on the people left behind. From that perspective, what is death if not absence? And if it is an absence that torments those left behind, death is no worse than dementia. It is perhaps worse, losing a person one piece at a time so that near the end, your love for them has been slowly chipped away at too. In Bobby…