Drama Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

Albert Bullock’s ‘Love Is Real’ Replaces Cinematic Romanticism With a Striking Dissection of the Nature of Love

Following a split, a disconnected couple set out to confront the mechanics of intimacy in Albert Bullock's compelling exploration of modern connection.

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Live Action

Georgia Small Shoulders the Crushing, Inescapable Weight of a Partner’s Silent Grief in ‘Baby’

Georgia Small details using voyeuristic, lingering camerawork to externalise the internal flood of anguish in her intimate debut short.

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Live Action, Premiere

Joshua Elias Palmer Carves a Tender, Sombre Portrait of Filial Sacrifice in the Starkly Beautiful and Silent ‘Coda’

Joshua Elias Palmer discusses employing a constrained, anamorphic frame to mirror the emotional confines of a son’s sacrificial caregiving.

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Live Action, Premiere

Desire’s Unstoppable Pulse Thrums Through Julia Ponce Díaz & Nico Blanco’s Raucous ‘Cowboy, Choker, Harness & Heart’

Julia Ponce Díaz & Nico Blanco pull back the curtain on their racy queer short, where a bathroom stall takes centre stage at a neon-drenched rave.

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Live Action, Premiere

Mateo Martinez Weaves Ancestral Ghosts and Emerald Greed Into a Hypnotic Columbian Allegory in ‘Cacique del Monte’

Mateo Martinez depicts the emerald trade through myth & violence as a thief's greed awakens a mountain's curse, binding past to present in sacred green fire.

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Animation, Live Action, Premiere

Peter Fellows’ ‘Fluffmeister, a Poodle of Questionable Heritage’ Bears Witness to a Toxic Relationship’s Demise

Peter Fellows shines a comedic light on the self-centred nature of humanity as witnessed by an anxious dog traumatised by his owner's toxic breakup.

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Live Action

Games Night Unravels Into a Brutal Tribunal of Guilt in Alex Sovoda’s ‘Circumstantial Forgiveness’

Alex Sovoda breaks down tension building in a single location, using static wide shots and chaotic close-ups to turn a games night into a pressure cooker.

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Live Action

Mohammad R. Khavari Targets Institutional Power in His Quietly Radical Short Film ‘Unjustified’

Mohammad R. Khavari unpacks the realist aesthetic and sociopolitical roots behind his poignant portrait of oppression and systematic silence.

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Animation, Premiere

Finding Beauty in the Chaos: Natasza Cetner on Creating ‘And the Cranes Kept Dancing’

Natasza Cetner offers us an "escape from monotony" in her woodcut-inspired paint on glass animated short - a hypnotic film about life's priorities.

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Live Action

Danny Jelinek Ships a Gamified Nightmare of Technocapitalism in Saturated Satire ‘Word of Mouth’

From sunny visuals to surreal decay, Danny Jelinek breaks down the dystopian world of his comedy about an AI-driven mobile app that commodifies conversations.

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Live Action, Premiere

Ethan Edwards Crafts a Biting Literary Duel of Confided Secrets Revealed in Razor-Sharp Two-Hander ‘Goose’

Edwards reveals how he discovered the perfect psychologically damning secret and why he avoided traditional rehearsals to craft an authentic battle of wills.

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Live Action

Choreographing Community Collapse: Athina Rachel Tsangari on the Ritualistic Filmmaking of ‘Harvest’

Athina Rachel Tsangari discusses the inimitable nature of 16mm & its essentiality in crafting her hallucinatory vision of a way of life crushed by capitalism.

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