Talking Shorts

Talking Shorts

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! We write about short films, produce long reads on short film programmes, and feature talks with filmmakers → all fully immersed in the European circuit of festivals, which is home to our workshops and discussions.

Vision of Paradise

Films Now Showing

Vision of Paradise

Mapping The Unfathomable

Review by Alonso Aguilar

Leonardo Pirondi questions human perception and the possibilities of expanding our gaze beyond the realm of the physical, objective world.

Hideous

Talks Interview

Lyrical Monsters

Interview with Yann Gonzalez by Anas Sareen

The acclaimed French filmmaker talks about his latest short film, a visual anthem to a whole generation of queer people.

Long Time No See

Films On The Circuit

Long Time No See

A Day Off

Review by Michael Kuratli

Kevin Biele’s short is full of subtlety: a quiet “no” has never sound so powerful.

Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays

Films On The Circuit

Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays

Empire of the Sun

Review by Olivia Popp

Shot in vivid 16mm, Barcelona native Christian Avilés turns a piercing gaze on young British holidaymakers, creating a reverie of surreal seduction out of the real-life phenomenon of balconing.

Between Delicate and Violent (Şirin Bahar Demirel, 2023)

Re-Framing the Family Archive

Essay by Patrick Gamble

Family archives are a fruitful resource for filmmakers, exemplified in this year’s International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)’s short film competition.

Call: European Workshop for Film Criticism #5

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Filmfest Dresden

Filmfest Dresden

16—21.04.2024

Dresden. Cradle of chocolate manufacturing, center of German animation and home of Filmfest Dresden, first held in 1989 (only a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall). If you drive across the Elbe towards Neustadt today, it's hard...

2024 Reading List

Emptied Away

The Veiled City by Natalie Cubides-Brady

Review by Jason Todd

Love Goes Through The Stomach}

The Online Fascinations of NEOZOON

Interview with Neozoon by Mathieu Janssen

A Kind of Testament}

You Are Being Watched

A Kind of Testament by Stephen Vuillemin

Review by Michiel Philippaerts

Desiring Young Woman

27 by Flóra Anna Buda

Review by Savina Petkova

Paradise Europe}

Berlin Is Just Trying To Fuck You
Leandro Goddinho and Paulo Menezes on Paradise Europe

Paradise Europe by Leandro Goddinho Paulo Menezes

Interview with Leandro Goddinho, Paulo Menezes by Dora Leu

Land der Berge}

At Any Cost: An East European Immigrant’s Plight

Land der Berge by Olga Kosanović

Review by Monika Navickaitė

Lake of Fire}

The Rhythm of Apocalypse

Lake of Fire by Neozoon

Review by Simon Schäfer

Ardent Other}

Republic on Fire

Ardent Other by Alice Brygo

Review by Zachary Seager

*Jill, Uncredited* (Anthony Ing, 2022)}

Which Direction Home?
How Different Sources of Capital Direct Our Personal Agency

Essay by Fedor Tot

Discussions

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

Everything You Never Dared To Ask About Distribution

with Anaïs Colpin, Ben Vandendaele, María Vera, Anne Gaschütz

This panel offers answers to all the questions filmmakers may ask themselves about the distribution of their films. Why work with a distributor and when to contact them? How do we define a distribution strategy? What are the dos and...

Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

The Future Of Shorts: Leave The Bubble, Unleash The Shorts!

with Cynthia Felando, Anne Gaschütz, Savina Petkova, Laura Walde

Once we step outside the festival bubble, where else do we hear or read anything about short films? Forums that address the short format or individual shorts in depth are limited. Short films are not taught much at universities, and without...

Encounters Film Festival

Do You Read Me: The Dissemination Of Film Criticism Across Media

with Sanne Jehoul, Fedor Tot, Anne Gaschütz, Ren Scateni

What is the current state of writing about cinema? How do reviews, articles, and publications influence audience reach nowadays? If film criticism as we used to know it is dying, what about short film criticism? Has it ever been alive? ...

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