4 Stars

Directed by John Patrick Lowrie, ‘Night, Mother’ adapts Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play into feature length form. A story about a daughter and a mother who have a meaningful conversation before the daughter decides to end her life, the […]

Directed by Johannes Buchholz, the German language drama ‘Zugvögel’ introduces us to a complicated bunch of friends who reunite after a long time. As old secrets are revealed and the past reconciled, the tightly knit group of friends will […]

It’s hard to say whether Rowan McCarthy wanted to give us an existential drama or a dystopian sci-fi exercise. Nevertheless, no matter how each viewer understands his project, ‘Strange Commander‘ is a short film that aims to shock. And […]

‘Will You Bury Me‘ is an excellent example of a short film that, although it doesn’t approach a popular subject from an innovative perspective, surprises with its naturalness and sincerity. Likewise, although Noor Eldine Aboud doesn’t “premeditate” a direct […]

We know it’s hard to believe, but there are some movies where the theme of war can be funny. Obviously, we don’t mean that ‘A Swedish Defence‘ is a comedy, but Simon Elvås manages to find the right dosage […]

Few short films manage with minimal narrative and image resources to express pure anxiety, as is the case with ‘Mind in Sight‘. And yet, the short film signed by Florian Purkarthofer is neither a thriller nor a horror. At […]

There are many ways in which the short film ‘DICTATION’ can be defined, but perhaps the most appropriate label would be that of political metaphor. Far from adopting a conventional formula, Moein Hasheminasab creates his project as a gloomy […]

Directed by Krishna Mankasingh and Darryl Palapuz, ‘Range of eMotion‘ is a feature-length documentary about how schizophrenia affects and takes a toll on ordinary people and how these people rely on friends and family to make their lives better. […]

One of the most interesting aspects of any quality dystopia is not necessarily the magnitude of the political, ecological, or religious catastrophes defining the fictional universe but the way in which the characters access their resources in this confrontation […]

Some projects are so special that they don’t need dialogue to convey emotion. Or even a complex action. The short animation ‘Jupiter & Europa‘ strikes you through these aspects, through this apparent minimalism of the cinematic construct that leaves […]