Country Mexico
Flies, Fernando Eimbcke's film, is the kind of small, humane, quietly funny character piece that sneaks up on you, and by the end it had me genuinely moved. I caught it at the BFI London Film Festival, and while a saggy middle stops it being perfect, it is
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There is a genuinely intriguing moral knot at the centre of How to Hide It, the short film co-written and co-directed by Ramla Ali and Richard A. Moore, and for thirteen minutes it packs in a surprising amount of story. I caught it at the BFI London Film
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There is a very particular pleasure in a short film that knows exactly what it is and does it well, and A Twist of Hate, Madeleine Shenai's nine-minute short film, is a neat little example. I caught it at the BFI London Film Festival, and while it
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Nine minutes is barely any time at all to win someone over, yet Sweet Bitter Sweet, Nicolee Tsin's charming short film, manages it with room to spare. I caught it at the BFI London Film Festival and came out grinning, which is really the whole review in a
Country Afghanistan
I went into Super Afghan Gym, Shahrbanoo Sadat's short film, wanting very much to like it. Sadat is a real talent, the woman behind Wolf and Sheep and The Orphanage, and this comes out of Cate Blanchett's Displacement Film Fund, a genuinely worthwhile scheme giving displaced
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There is a clever idea buried inside The Sorrows of Young Charlotte, Shir Ariya's dark comedy short film, which I caught in the BFI London Film Festival's Land of Hope and Gory strand. The title alone tells you the game, a gender-flipped riff on Goethe,
Country Sweden
There is a particular kind of magic to stop motion when it is done with real care, and Please, Anna Mantzaris's latest short film, has it in abundance. I came to it through the BFI London Film Festival knowing her earlier work, the gloriously deadpan But Milk Is
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There is a very particular kind of spiral that anyone who has ever made an impulsive decision in front of a mirror will recognise instantly, and Micro Bangs nails it in just five sharp minutes. Iris Breward's short is a neat, funny and surprisingly truthful little piece about
Country United Kingdom
A Tail has a premise so bold and so promising that I spent most of its twelve minutes rooting for it to stick the landing, and I came away admiring a great deal while wishing it had been braver with its ending. Rosie Gaunt-Mathieson's modern mermaid comedy
Country Uruguay
There is a wickedly good premise at the heart of Federico Borgia's Prince, and a pedigree cast to carry it, but this Uruguayan dark comedy never quite sinks its teeth in. It is a perfectly pleasant watch, handsomely made and nicely performed, yet for a film built on
Country Australia
Every so often a short comes along with a premise so neat you wonder why no one had done it before, and A Grief Encounter is one of those. James Ashley McLaren's Australian short is a funny, tender and genuinely original little film about a lonely taxidermist and
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There is a lovely idea buried inside Comédie-Française, and every so often the film brushes up against it. The Comédie-Française is the oldest still-performing theatre company in the world, an institution with three and a half centuries of history and one iron rule: the show is never
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