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Talks Interviews

Bedside Terrors

Review by Öykü Sofuoğlu

In this desktop documentary, Fırat Yücel chronicles the activism fatigue of a group of activists, eyes fixed on screens as they follow the news from Palestine and across the region. happiness was nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2026.

Talks Interviews

Things Don’t Compute

Interview with Nicolas Gourault by Sanne Jehoul

In Their Eyes, testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South: their job is to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North. The film was nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2026.

Talks Interviews

To Paint the Synthetic Scenery, Bodily

Interview with Wang Yuyan by Tianyu Jiang

Yuyan Wang’s new experimental documentary is an enchanting procession of images, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future. Green Grey Black Brown was nominatied for the New Critics, New Audiences Award 2026.

Reads Research

Film Festivals And Their New Realities

Essays by Ren Scateni, Yun-hua Chen, Rafael Fonseca, Laura Walde, Marko Stojiljković, Dana Linssen

What happens when the ground beneath our film festivals begins to shift? These are the questions that animated “Film Festivals & Their New Realities”, a six-part panel series hosted by the European Short Film Network (ESFN). This reader gathers six essays commissioned by Talking Shorts, written in response to these panels.
Reads Lists

Listed: Top 3 of 2025

In a yearly tradition, Talking Shorts invites filmmakers, critics, and programmers to pick their three favourite short films of the year.
Call: European Workshop for Film Criticism #9
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Upcoming

Glasgow Short Film Festival
Festivals

Glasgow Short Film Festival

18—22.03.2026
Surely the main reason to have the motto “Let Glasgow Flourish” embroidered in the city’s crest must be the existence of its own homonymous short film festival. As the King in the North of the short film festivals of Scotland, Glasgow...

2026 Reading List

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Phantom Town

L’mina by Randa Maroufi

Review by Najrin Islam
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To Paint the Synthetic Scenery, Bodily
Yuyan Wang on Green Grey Black Brown
Interview with Wang Yuyan by Tianyu Jiang
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Lies Alive
Stephen Vuillemin on A Kind of Testament
Interview with Stephen Vuillemin by Savina Petkova
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Animating the Naïve
Maida Srabović on Fačuk
Interview with Maida Srabović by Patrick Gamble
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Cinema of Traces
Interview with Lin Htet Aung
Interview with Lin Htet Aung by Laura Stoeckler
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A Young Man Under the Influence
Interview with Gala Hernández López
Interview with Gala Hernández López by Elena del Olmo Andrade
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You Are Being Watched

A Kind of Testament by Stephen Vuillemin

Review by Michiel Philippaerts
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Banana for Brains
Interview with Alexandre Sousa
Interview with Alexandre Sousa by Alex Petrescu
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King of the Video Club

Dancing in the Light by Julie Petríková

Review by Dora Leu
One Thousand And One Attempts To Be An Ocean}
“Oddly satisfying short film—LOOK!”

One Thousand And One Attempts To Be An Ocean by Wang Yuyan

Review by Laurence Boyce

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.

What Short Films Fight For (And How)

with Elahe Esmaili, Nicolas Khabbaz, Sacha Prokopenko, Anne Gaschütz
How can cinema promote radical change? Hosted by the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in collaboration with Talking Shorts, this panel conversation tackled ideas about upholding solidarity and care in times of budget cuts...
Discussions

When Impact is the Aesthetic

with Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan Sadetło Scott, Tracy Rector, Jason Ryle
European short film culture often treats impact as an added value; Indigenous filmmaking has long treated it as a core artistic principle. With the Indigenous Cinema Alliance (ICA) represented at the European Short Film Market in...
Leiden Shorts
Discussions

Rethinking the Short Film Format in a Shifting Media Landscape

with Julian Ross, Jade Wiseman, Niels Putman, Oana Ghera
Traditionally seen as stepping stones to features, short films now hold a more complex and valuable place in today’s screen culture. This panel challenges old paradigms and explores how shorts function as a creative and professional form...
Discussions

The “Short Film” and Its Audience

with Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck, Samir Karahoda, Sigrid Hadenius-Ebner
A panel talk on audience development for short films through programming and filmmaking. This conversation took place during DokuFest’s 23rd edition with Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (Berlinale Shorts), Samir Karahoda (DokuFest), and...
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