Country Sudan
Some films find you at exactly the right angle to cut deep, and White Musk, Fatima Wardy's short film, did that to me. I watched it at the BFI London Film Festival, and it is an impactful and genuinely sad piece of work, handled with such honesty that
Country Ireland
I always feel a particular kind of disappointment when a film whose argument I broadly agree with still manages to lose me, and that was my experience with Landscapes of Shame, Patrick Hough's essay film, which I caught at the BFI London Film Festival. The history it draws
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There is a good short film somewhere inside The Animals, and a strong cast doing their best to find it, but Calvin Demba's eighteen-minute piece never quite gets there. It has a sharp premise and some real talent on screen, yet it states its point so bluntly,
Country Switzerland
Every so often a short film comes along that is so beautiful to look at that the usual criteria start to feel almost beside the point, and Into the Forest, Antonin Niclass's stop-motion short film, is one of those. I watched it at the BFI London Film
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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
Country Jamaica
Now and again a short film comes along that seems to speak directly to you, and FarEye, Hayden McLean's beautiful short film, was exactly that for me. I caught it at the BFI London Film Festival, and as someone who follows the teachings of Haile Selassie myself, the
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Some shorts are over before you have really had the chance to take their measure, and Last Minute is one of them. Sam Brain's five-minute piece sets up an intriguing, charged little situation and then ends almost the moment it gets going, leaving me genuinely unsure what
Country India
There is a quietly radical premise at the heart of Aman, Rahul Roye's short film, and for the most part it handles it with real tenderness and grace. I watched it at the BFI London Film Festival and found it a beautiful, touching and genuinely challenging piece of
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Every so often a short film comes along with a performance at its centre so good that it carries you past any reservations you might have, and Untitled Woman, Camille Summers-Valli's elegant short film, is very nearly that. I caught it at the BFI London Film Festival
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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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Some films do not have time to ease you in, and To the North, Amer Nasser's short film, does not try. It runs only around eight minutes, and in that time it delivers a gut punch that stayed with me long after the screen had gone dark. I
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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
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