Drama Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

Sam Tricomo Asks Audiences to Find Empathy Without Forgiveness in His Darkly Transgressive Pilot ‘Puke Bitch’

How do you make audiences care about people who do terrible things? Sam Tricomo's dark pilot strips away backstory, letting silence and loneliness do the work.

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Film Festival, Live Action

Five Shoots, One Year and Zero Fundraising Shape Bertil Nilsson’s Intimate Identity-Shifting Feature Debut ‘Masc’

Ahead of its LFF 2026 European premiere, Bertil Nilsson returns to discuss the instinct-led process which enabled the creation of his debut feature, 'Masc'.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Houseguest Too Many Tips Everything Into Chaos in Kiyan Ahmadi’s Tense & Tender Short ‘PIERRE THE GREAT’

How much can a relationship withstand when an outsider disrupts its delicate balance? Kiyan Ahmadi explores that tension in his cramped, darkly comic short.

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Live Action

Theo Matza Zooms in on Digital Deception and Tourist Naivety in His Paris-Set Catfishing Comedy ‘Faux Amis’

Theo Matza flips the fantasy of Paris and rewrites the rules of catfishing through an unexpected story of digital deception and toxic friendship.

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Brief Somebodies - a short film by Andy Reid

Live Action

Andy Reid Calibrates the Cost of Making Something Honest in His Meta SXSW Short ‘Brief Somebodies’

Andy Reid confronts his own experience of sexual assault by staging a film rehearsal where two actors negotiate the ethical boundaries of depicting trauma.

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Live Action

Anna Hopkins Cooks Up Connection After Closing Time in Restaurant Set Two-Hander ‘Dish Pit’

Eschewing restaurant chaos for stillness, Anna Hopkins’ short film finds drama in small gestures, shared meals and intimate conversations after closing.

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Live Action

Two Sisters Fracture Under a Collapsing World in Leandros Braounos & Daniel Howells’ Afrikaans Short ‘Winter Slaap’

Guilt, grief and inherited expectation press down on two sisters in Leandros Braounos & Daniel Howells' wintry portrait of family disintegration.

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Live Action

Li Anne Liew’s Gentle Ghost Drifts Through Strangers’ Secret Selves in ‘glide (all the people i’ll never be)’

In Li Anne Liew's tender ghost story reverie, a young woman wanders Los Angeles unseen as she mourns the life she's leaving and the ones she'll never live.

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Live Action

Defiant Black Trans Sisterhood Crashes Upscale Gentrification in Nana Duffuor’s Heist Short ‘Rainbow Girls’

As tech money prices them out of their own city, Nana Duffuor's trio of friends turn brazen luxury theft into an act of belonging, defiance and love.

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Live Action

How Jasper Caverly’s ‘Pleasure’ Challenges Masculinity and Queerness Through Australia’s Eshay Subculture.

Frustrated by insincere, offensive contemporary queer characterizations, Jasper Caverly crafts a visceral portrait of young men wrestling with vulnerability.

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Live Action, Premiere

Kelly Sarri Turns a Punishing Summer Into Intimate, Generational Warfare in Her Scorching Climate Short ‘Heat Me’

Kelly Sarri grounds global climate anxieties within the invisible domestic toll borne by three generations of women inside a sweltering Greek apartment.

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Art & Fashion

Rachel McDonald Harnesses the Power of Movement and Radical Tenderness in Wordless Dance Short ‘Ternura’

Rachel McDonald orchestrates a transfeminist manifesto from Mexico City into a striking wordless dance short rooted in radical vulnerability and resistance.

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