Talking Shorts

Carried Along

Interview with Helena Wittmann by Laura Stoeckler

The elliptical, mesmerising cinema of Helena Wittmann was the subject of a Focus Programme at this year’s Drama International Film Festival, which prompted an in-depth exploration of the fascinating ways her short films sculpt time and facilitate unique encounters.

Films On The Circuit

Dancing in the Light

King of the Video Club

Review by Dora Leu

Julie Petríková’s film Dancing in the Light, which screened at XPOSED Queer Film Festival in Berlin earlier this year, focuses on 1980s videographer and New York queer icon Nelson Sullivan, recuperating his memory and love for his community, but also delving into his particular way of video-making during an era that was still not in the habit of turning the camera the other way round, onto the self.

Reads Notes

While the Song Remains the Same

Essay by Jan Tracz

Songs, music videos, and essayistic shorts testify to a strive for societal change in FeKK’s “Po(p)litics” programme.

Films On The Circuit

L’mina

Phantom Town

Review by Najrin Islam

Does performing daily routines before a camera shift the meaning of your work? Recreating labour in informal Moroccan mining pits in collaboration with the town’s residents, Randa Maroufi’s L’mina draws from Bertolt Brecht’s alienation effect.

Reads Notes

To Imagine the End of the World

Essay by Oisín Kealy

In the latest iteration of Concorto’s “Supernature” programme, images from the frontlines of environmental breakdown present strategies for living in its aftermath.

Upcoming

Festivals

Leuven International Short Film Festival

28.11—06.12.2025

Founded in 1995 as an excuse to showcase the founders' own student shorts, the now EFA-, BAFTA- & Oscar-qualifying festival hasn’t lost its initial goal, always putting young, emerging film talent front and center. Taking place around...

2025 Reading List

Regarding Facts and Feelings

Common Pear by Gregor Božič

Review by Alonso Aguilar

Protecting the Palestinian Narrative
A Conversation with Gaza Film Unit’s Eslam Saqqa and Ayman Alazraq

Interview with Eslam Saqqa, Ayman Alazraq by Sanne Jehoul

Choosing to Stay
Interview with Lucia G. Romero

Interview with Lucia G. Romero by Hana Kreševič

We Live in an Autofictional Society
Examining Docufictional Works

Essay by Olivia Popp

Green Screen Gringo Comes Into His Own

Neighbour Abdi by Douwe Dijkstra

Review by Vladan Petković

Skirts Without Scots

Juck [Thrust] by Olivia Kasterbring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira

Review by Susanne Meisenberg

Playing Along
Anna Martí Domingo on Boys

Interview with Anna Martí Domingo by Tianyu Jiang

Reframing the Framer

A Lack of Clarity by Stefan Kruse Jørgensen

Review by Leonardo Govoni

Where Shadows Hide and Visions Speak

Shadows by Rand Beiruty

Review by Heather Bradshaw

Home is Where it Hurts
Testimonies from Today’s War Zones at Vienna Shorts

Essay by Savina Petkova

Banana for Brains
Interview with Alexandre Sousa

Interview with Alexandre Sousa by Alex Petrescu

Loosely Based On…
The Malleable Boundaries of Adaptation

Essay by Marina Zigneli

Digital Witnesses

Man Number 4 by Miranda Pennell

Review by Patrick Gamble

Utopia, Lost

City of Poets by Sara Rajaei

Review by Dora Leu

Bathroom Blues

looking she said I forget by Naomi Pacifique

Review by Savina Petkova

Flowing Femininity

The One Who Knows by Eglė Davidavičė

Review by Grete Kaio, Liene Helēna Nugumanova, Kamilė Zinkevičiūtė

All Welcome?

Sorry I am late (but I brought a choir) by Håkon Anton Olavsen

Review by Khushi Jain

Discussions

Working with partner festivals, we organise panel talks, keynotes, and other formats to foster discussions. Recordings are published here to continue the conversation online.