3½ Stars

A young man has been dreaming all his life for the ideal woman. One day she shows up and by coincidence she carries a few characteristics and clues that the young man has become obsessed with when imagining ‘her’. Everything […]

In our highly digitised era things can go wrong even when you want to try to make a simple phone call for a simple request. In Riley Weston’s short film ‘Hello Phone‘, a man who is trying to contact […]

‘Golden Leaves’ is one of the most professional music videos in our festival so far. There is everything well made in this video: from framing, lights, costume design, stage design to color grading and editing.   The story is […]

‘By my side’ is the video directed by Manuel Camacho after the original soundtrack song from the Spanish feature ‘Candela’ – the same director’s first feature.   The video interestingly summarises the feature highlighting its emotional core. We haven’t […]

We start up in life (mostly during youth) feeling independent, challenging and rebelling against convention, against routine, against everything that is not encouraging a free spirit. But when we reach a certain step we are bound to accept what […]

‘The Umbrella Factory’ is a very special animation by directors Nick and Lexie Trivundza. In the middle of the night a stranger knocks at the door of three brothers to ask shelter from the rain, something to eat and […]

BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST.   Dream and reality interweave in this surrealist short film belonging to director Vanessa Aab. The story is that of two characters, Franz and […]

BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST.   The best way to regard Juliette Morice’s film is starting from the title: ‘The Fruit of Love and Chance’. So while the film […]

BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST.   Solitude is not something to aspire or wish for but is something people learn how to deal with. ‘The Bench‘ is a story […]

A woman blowing her nose in the background, a monitor on which the internet browser reads: ‘The waking dead, malfunctions in oculus techology’, then the search changes into ‘man with van and gravedigger’… At this point you already started […]