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 […]
Some movies manage to keep you breathless not by the complexity of their action, but by the way in which the dialogue between the characters slowly reveals new emotional layers. Well, ‘Bloody Mary‘ is by far a short film […]
It’s hard to say what the great quality of a short film like ‘Ingrid‘ is. And this is precisely because its force is not necessarily perceptible on a visible level; it hides in nuances, in fine emotional details, behind […]
Certain short films are important not for their narrative content, but precisely because they try to reject the rigors of a conventional story, while adopting an almost poetic style, focused on sensations and on severe feelings. ‘Hunger‘ is one […]
Dystopia is perhaps one of the most effective ways to lucidly investigate the present we live in. However, ‘Counterproductive‘ is not only a substantial and incisive analysis of a delicate social context, but also an extremely well-executed short film […]
At one point, we all believed that the age of globalization would bring new ways of understanding and accepting the others. And yet, the condition of the immigrant is still a topic of striking relevance, which always puts us […]
For many people, history is just a (real or fictional) tale which is more or less important for how they relate to their own present. However, for certain categories of people, history and the connections with their own genealogy […]
We don’t know if you feel the same, but we are sure that the French are very good at telling stories. In fact, a large part of contemporary French-language cinema uses the principles of fairy tales or transposes into […]