The Birthday Party I Hate and I Love review by Zachary Seager review by Zachary Seager On a crisp sunny morning in 1999, a young boy named Francesco arrives late to another boy’s birthday party. Everything opposes the two …
The Veiled City Emptied Away review by Jason Todd Being exposed to archival footage, peering into humanity’s past through still or moving images may sometimes feel akin to digging into the …
An Avocado Pit Living on the threshold review by Sam Moore The relationship at the heart of ‘An Avocado Pit’ — Ary Zara’s intimate, beguiling portrait of a trans sex worker — is defined by tension. …
2nd Person Confessions of a city dweller review by Nino Kovačić In the opening scene, a mechanical crane picks through what seems to be — as it is closely framed it’s hard to specify — a sea of garbage. …
Staging Death Translating Death review by Jason Todd For the sake of this text, let’s entertain the following thesis, and let us all agree to its plausibility. At least for now. It goes as …
Night Walks Embracing the Silence review by Chris Childs A father and daughter walk through a dark forest at night, listening to mysterious noises and looking up at the stars in Lizete Upīte’s …
Flores del otro Patio Love and Fiction, Our Saviours! review by Savina Petkova The winner of the International Audience Award at Glasgow Short Film Festival, ‘Flores del otro Patio’ carries every mark of a Jorge Cadena …