4 Stars

A corner of hell is for those who cannot forgive themselves. But ‘Selftherapy‘ is not a short film about the afterlife but about a palpable, intimate, domestic hell. Through this project, Mohammad Hossein Zalbak and Ben Cyran create a […]

Directed by the esteemed Kyoichi Komoto, ‘CODE-D: The House of the 8 Women’ is a science fiction feature taking place in the near future when the surviving population of Japan is divided into ranks and sent out to live […]

Family love is a wonderful thing. But what is the boundary between unconditional love and unhealthy love? ‘Heart of Rose Hip’ is a short film that gives us a possible catastrophic scenario of such a toxic relationship that dismantles […]

Elliptical, but not incomplete, temperate, but not monotonous, ‘Upstream’ is the result of a special artistic sensibility that depicts with candour a tender and authentic existential piece. Adriana Martins da Silva offers us a short film like a cinematic […]

Written by Reinaldo Moraes and directed by Beto Marquez, ‘Bigger than the World’ (or Maior Que O Mundo) sees Eriberto Leão play Kbeto, a struggling writer suffering with writer’s block who stumbles upon a great story in a dumpster […]

In addition to all those great films about the destinies of women crushed by the patriarchy of Islamic countries, some directors prefer to change the rules of the game, bringing before us some “atypical” protagonists. This doesn’t mean that […]

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 […]