4½ Stars

Sometimes, cinema must shatter the comfort zone of viewers who seek explanations too easily accepted. Remaining in the framework of a social critique, the short film ‘She Was‘ starts from the issue of femicide, tackling the way how reality […]

Buried grief does not disappear simply because it goes unspoken. In fact, it lingers beneath the surface, shaping everything from the inside. This could be the main idea of ‘The Silence of the Mime‘, directed by Avyel Cohen, which […]

How can ancient traditions be compatible with contemporary social standards and everyone’s freedom of expression? Or, rather, is there such a thing as free will in the context of rigid norms that seek to predetermine one’s destiny from their […]

Watching Miguel Andrade’s short film, it’s almost impossible not to think of one of the paradoxes that defines surrealist art. If dreaming is an escape from reality and, at the same time, dreaming is a way of understanding ourselves […]

Art is not always a means of sublimating trauma. It can be a form of self-destruction precisely because total immersion in one’s own suffering does not always lead to a trivialization of pain. ‘Baobhan Sith‘ is more than a […]

Sometimes, a short movie doesn’t necessarily need to be understood, but just contemplated. We felt a similar sensation as we plunged fully into the atmosphere of the short film ‘Oranda‘. More than a filmmaker, Livan Garcia-Duquesne is a creator […]

Time and time again, we are impressed by the way a director manages to make the most of the minimum resources to explore the full potential of a seemingly simplistic subject. ‘Way Out‘ is a successful example that fully […]

Stories based on historical events are not necessarily valuable for the amount of “factual” information and statistics they present, but for the way they highlight the human condition facing situations where the limits are pushed. In this sense, inspired […]

The spontaneity of inter-human affinities sometimes appears to bear the stamp of destiny and to transcend even the boundary between the world of the living and the dead. Director Ali Marwan Chekki embraces this idea to construct his short […]

There’s something about Sonny Baez’s short film that’s hard to capture in a few words, though its central stakes, especially the drama of the modern couple, are far from a thematic novelty. And yet, ‘Don’t Choke‘ offers a refreshingly […]