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Reads Focus

Encampment Cinema

Essay by Oliver Dixon

Hagiography or critique? Oliver Dixon explores tensions and divisions found in pro-Palestinian cinema, from recent so-called “encampment shorts” to Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville’s essay films.
Reads Notes

No Easy Resolutions

Essay by Leila Latif

A focus on experience rather than outcome is central to Suzannah Mirghani’s work, whose films shine a light on her Sudanese heritage, with nuance drawn from the community that birthed her.
Reads Notes

Surrounded by Heads and Bodies

Essay by Elif Türkan Erişik

Bodily self-documentation becomes a means of self-preservation in Lesley Loksi Chan’s Golden Bear-winning Llyod Wong, Unfinished, María Cristina Pérez’s amorphous animated Once in a Body, and Mireia Vilapuig’s Skin Despair.

Talks Interviews

Postcard from Rio

Interview with Felipe Casanova by Elif Türkan Erişik

Felipe Casanova’s latest hybrid film won Best Documentary at Clermont-Ferrand’s Lab Competition. In an interview with Elif Türkan Erisik, the Brazil-born, now-Belgium-based filmmaker talks about the gesture of revolt in Rio’s carnival.
Reads Notes

A Girl Is a Girl Is a Girl

Essay by Panagiota Stoltidou

Across different programmes of the 19th Vilnius Short Film Festival, Panagiota Stoltidou encounters films that probe the iconography of female adolescence.
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Upcoming

Go Short — International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
Festivals

Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen

07—12.04.2026
The Netherlands is a haven for international film festivals. In addition to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Go Short in Nijmegen—a small town in the east of the country just five kilometers from the German border—has made a name for itself as...

2026 Reading List

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Flowers Left in the Archive
Essay by Sabrina Rose
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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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We Live in an Autofictional Society
Examining Docufictional Works
Essay by Olivia Popp
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Bedside Terrors

happiness by Fırat Yücel

Review by Öykü Sofuoğlu
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Postcard from Rio
Interview with Felipe Casanova
Interview with Felipe Casanova by Elif Türkan Erişik
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Love in the Slaughterhouse

Skin on Skin by Simon Schneckenburger

Review by Panagiota Stoltidou
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Digital Witnesses

Man Number 4 by Miranda Pennell

Review by Patrick Gamble
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Regarding Facts and Feelings

Common Pear by Gregor Božič

Review by Alonso Aguilar
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Choosing to Stay
Interview with Lucia G. Romero
Interview with Lucia G. Romero by Hana Kreševič
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Animating the Naïve
Maida Srabović on Fačuk
Interview with Maida Srabović by Patrick Gamble
Between Delicate and Violent (Şirin Bahar Demirel, 2023)}
Re-Framing the Family Archive
Using Home Videos in Documentary Filmmaking
Essay by Patrick Gamble
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Utopia, Lost

City of Poets by Sara Rajaei

Review by Dora Leu
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Phantom Town

L’mina by Randa Maroufi

Review by Najrin Islam
Filmfest Dresden
Festivals

Filmfest Dresden

14—19.04.2026
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...

2026 Reading List

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Visible Fingerprints
Jyoti Mistry on We Come in Peace, They Said
Interview with Jyoti Mistry by Savina Petkova
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Lyrical Monsters
Yann Gonzalez on Hideous
Interview with Yann Gonzalez by Anas Sareen
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Carried Along
Interview with Helena Wittmann
Interview with Helena Wittmann by Laura Stoeckler
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Not With A Bang But A Whimper

Postcards from the End of the World by Konstantinos Antonopoulos

Review by Laurence Boyce
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Things Don’t Compute
Nicolas Gourault on Their Eyes
Interview with Nicolas Gourault by Sanne Jehoul
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Phantom Town

L’mina by Randa Maroufi

Review by Najrin Islam
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The Online Fascinations of NEOZOON
Interview with Neozoon by Mathieu Janssen
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Machinic Visions

Their Eyes by Nicolas Gourault

Review by Oliver Dixon
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Skirts Without Scots

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

Review by Susanne Meisenberg

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.

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...
Discussions

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...
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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