Vladan Petković

About the author

Vladan Petković is a film journalist, critic and festival programmer. He writes for Cineuropa, Screendaily, Talking Shorts, Modern Times Review, and IDFA's website, and picks films for ZagrebDox, FeKK Ljubljana and the Festival of Investigative Cinema in Rab, Croatia.

Films

Suc de síndria

demystify female pleasure

review by Niels Putman

Spanish director Irene Moray’s ‘Suc de síndria’ (‘Watermelon Juice’) has been a real hit on the festival circuit for almost two years. The now Goya-winning, EFA-nominated short on a young woman …

Coming-of-age tale of Ukrainian …

Where do the short films stand in the overall Ukrainian film …

review by Līga Požarska

Is Ukrainian cinema on the verge of a renaissance? Film festivals are actively putting Ukrainian films on the map: Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin had its online edition earlier this month and the …

Top 3 of 2022

Programmers & curators

review by Laurence Boyce

Inspired by countless ‘year end’ lists that tended to ignore the short film format, the following list is an attempt to redress the balance whilst also giving those in the short film industry a …