Country France
Here is a short that understands the oldest rule in horror: what you do not see is almost always scarier than what you do. The Last Snow, Rodolphe Bouquet's tense little French creature feature, is really impressive for its length, a lean, dread-soaked chiller that had me
Country United Kingdom
There is a particular kind of childhood lie that spirals so far beyond your control that you end up trapped inside it, and I Was Kidnapped captures that sinking, guilty feeling just about perfectly. Dhananjay Barangule's animated short is a warm, funny and nicely crafted piece of autobiography,
Country United Kingdom
There is a very specific feeling at the heart of Hindsight that I recognised instantly, and it is the thing that carries Remi R.M. Moses' short further than its slender eleven minutes probably should. This is a warm, nicely observed little film about a young man, his first
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
Country United Kingdom
Fishbrain is a stunner. Max Vanderspuy's short is a grim, briny little nightmare about love curdling into resentment, and it builds to some of the most impressive body horror I have seen in any film this year, let alone one this length. It is nasty, tender and genuinely
Country United Kingdom
Every so often a short film takes a single, slightly mad idea and commits to it so completely that you cannot help but admire the nerve of the thing. Sophia Di Martino's All Yours is one of those, an eight-minute piece of domestic body horror that is
Country United Kingdom
I will admit it, Geronto did not win me over straight away. For its opening stretch I thought I knew exactly what it was: a short about two men meeting by chance and going to bed together, and little more. I was wrong, and by the end this quiet, melancholy
Country United Kingdom
You have to admire a film that can take an idea this daft and make you feel something with it. Adrian Maganza's Fantasies of a Rescue Dummy is one of the more genuinely original shorts I have come across, a hybrid of live action and animation that asks
Country United Kingdom
Every so often a short film comes along that makes you wish, immediately and urgently, that it were a feature, and Michael Patrick Clarkson's Delisted is one of the strongest I have seen in a long while. It is a sharp, superbly produced slice of near-future dystopia
Country Canada
Well, this is one I will not forget in a hurry. Emily Lawson's Man Eating Pussy is as confrontational as its title promises, a grotesque, strange and surprisingly tender little piece of body horror that uses one genuinely unforgettable image to say something real. It does not all
Country United Kingdom
Craft can carry a film a surprisingly long way, and Aisha Boudjillouli's Eyeliner is a good test of exactly how far. This NFTS stop-motion short is, on a technical level, genuinely lovely, beautifully animated and well voiced, and it is tackling a tender subject with obvious sincerity.
Country Armenia
There is a lot to enjoy in Wow, A Talking Fish!, though I have to be upfront: I was let down by the screener rather than the film. Robert Sahakyants' short is a surreal, sharp-edged bit of Soviet-era animation with terrific voice work, but the copy I
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