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Beauty is not a simple thing. On the contrary, beauty can destroy you if your admirer pushes the contemplative aesthetic experience towards an obsessive area. No, we’re not talking here about John Fowles’ famous nove
Film reviewThe Adventurer's Diary
The burden of loneliness can be so unbearable that certain people obsessed with the special moments from the past create, from the absence of their beloved, fictional universes whose strength often exceed the sense of re
Film reviewLike the Shadow in the Dark
The political mechanism is a sensitive subject that has generated not only essential social progress, but also major destructions that have managed to catalyse the most hurtful human manifestations. Unfortunately, this d
Film reviewYou Need Help
There is no need to insist: yes, old age is not the most ideal stage of a human’s life, being associated with loneliness, sadness, illness and, inevitably, death. But this perception doesn’t mark a condition per se o
Film reviewThe Peach was Once a Bitter Almond
It is a fact that the pages of history books are always filled with the names of the winners and losers on the battlefields. But how many of the readers of these books are aware of the details behind the scenes of these
Film reviewSilou: A Tale of an Orang Asli
Despite the technological boom that let us believe we can access any information with just a click, the world is still a fascinating place that hides in plain sight mesmerising communities facing the time and speed of ou
Film reviewSimmetria
We are what we think. Or reality is only a subjective form of one’s own intellectual and emotional mechanics. This philosophical debate is an obsessive idea for many extraordinary filmmakers who, having set out to explor
Film reviewDovetail
Providential encounters are not only a proof of the mysterious way in which destiny manages to radically change our way of thinking, but also a subtle way in which life shows us that we are imperfect beings who sometimes
Film reviewTrue Story
A space in a continuous confrontation between good and evil. A story where witchcraft rituals and demonic invocations are recurring practice. A fairy-tale? A sort of. So, is there a happy-end? Not really. But ' True Stor
Film reviewTrust Issues
For better or worse, until death do them part. Yes, there are such couples, and it is precisely this union that continues beyond death that makes them so touching. ' Trust Issues ' is a short film that focuses precisely
Film reviewBlondie Maxwell Never Loses
‘ Blondie Maxwell Never Loses ’ presents a very dark world that doesn’t seem to be like that at first, but with every step and every action taken, one can see how tormented everything is, and how hard normal life becomes
Film reviewAt Dawn
We are all familiar with films describing that almost spiritual communion with nature, in which people find in the fresh air of the mountain or in the ocean breeze a kind of simulacrum of paradise. However, certain direc
Film reviewJabbara
' Jabbara ' is a short film about pain. In fact, it is a project about loneliness and depression. But it is also a terrifying experiment about the burden of a dysfunctional family or about the individual’s desperate atte
Film reviewThe Mandarin Tree
A well-known writer once said that people cannot survive without poetry. Director Cengiz Akaygün feels somewhat the same, since his short film talks about the absolute necessity of imagination for the survival of people
Film reviewSafekeeping
' Safekeeping ' is one of those obsessive short films that thrills and touches you with the same intensity, defying the default boundaries of the genres we are used to. In other words, it is hard to say whether David Yor
Film review600 Horses
' 600 Horses ' is a music video that will surely please rap amateurs as well as experimental film moviegoers. Dante Rapper’s music, whose lyrics take on many elements from the sphere of the underground universe, becomes
Film reviewARETHA
It’s hard to fight the prejudices of others, because prejudices start where humanity disappears. That is why true human warmth occurs when people try to fight their own stereotypes or fear of being judged by others for t
Film reviewSOUND
Indeed, words are not always sufficient to express the deep states of the human soul. ' SOUND ' is one of the admirable proofs that confirms this, giving us an intimate and intense experience about the fragility of peopl
Film reviewEugene vs Humanity
It is no longer a novelty that for many of us the daily existence has become a kind of continuous struggle with the social masquerade, behind which lies hypocrisy, selfishness or envy. The protagonist of ' Eugene vs Huma
Film reviewMonstrus Circus
Colourful. Spectacular. Magic. These are the words that ' Monstrus Circus ' provokes in the soul of the viewers, throwing them into a fascinating universe, at the limit of fantastic and carnivalesque scenery. By choosing