4 Stars

‘Robbery at the Rockvale Theatre‘ is the kind of feature film that knows its territory very well and works precisely because of that. In fact, director Jesse Edwards doesn’t try to turn a family comedy with teenagers, mystery, and […]

More than an art form, theatre is a space for confronting oneself. ‘Empathy Rehearsals‘ explores how performance can break through the defensive mechanisms of a teenager accustomed to communicating through intimidation. Without turning the school into a spectacular setting […]

In ‘Masterpiece‘, love takes on the texture of a surface painted by two people, where every colour added by one alters the intention of the other, and the work in progress gradually comes to preserve the traces of the […]

Fear begins with a scenario any parent can immediately understand: a child does not come home from school. Yet ‘Stolen‘, directed by Nikita Tsedryk, does not remain within the simple territory of parental anxiety, nor does it settle for […]

The fall is almost never a clear, easily identifiable moment. In ‘I Don’t Live Here‘, the loss of self emerges through a series of small gestures, an accumulation of lost nights and clumsy attempts to feel something real. Directed […]

Survival has nothing elegant about it. On the contrary, it often appears as a dirty, exhausting struggle, fought in a world that seems to have already decided who has the right to exist and who must be pushed to […]

Sometimes, words must disappear because, at the core of extreme emotional suffering, they become useless. ‘Acceptance‘, directed by Robbie James Templeton & Catherine Jane Allana McFadzean, approaches depression as a state that gradually swallows everything. The short film functions […]

Dreams can sometimes turn out to be the most terrifying nightmares, and, eventually, the desire to reach perfection degenerates into an emotional fracture that cannot be healed. ‘Cracks‘, directed by Anna Veisman, explores precisely the psychological cost of performance […]

There are stories that impress through the almost imperceptible way they touch the most fragile layers of memory. It is precisely on this unstable ground of identity that ‘Being Billy‘ unfolds as a dense meditation on the traces that […]

At the point where a shared past gives way to an uncertain future, a love begins to quietly unravel. The short film ‘Re:Union‘, directed by Megan Mackenzie and Gabriel Kirkley, plunges into the theme of separation as something that […]