Short Film Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

Annika Chavez Turns a Shared Bathtub Into an Uncertain Stage of Fluid Friendship in Her Wry Short ‘Three Minutes’

Annika Chavez breaks down how experimentation within an organic shoot helped her capture the unspoken weight of a life-changing moment shared in a bathroom.

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Live Action

Emma Miranda Moore Reconstructs a Pivotal Evening Through Fractured Memory in Haunting Drama Short ‘That Night’

Emma Miranda Moore explores how we rebuild—not just recall—our pasts, using jazz-like editing and a constantly moving camera to question memory

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Live Action, Premiere

Lorenzo Gonnelli Builds Familiar Tension Only to Collapse It in His Morally Suspended Fractured Short ‘Godless Animals’

Lorenzo Gonnelli talks crafting tension through omission and having the unseen carry more weight than any image shown in his genre subverting thriller.

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Documentary

Abdou Cissé’s ‘Authors of the Estate’ Captures the Magic of a Community Taking Their Story Into Their Own Hands

Abdou Cissé details how he documented the power of a council house becoming a publishing house in his film about ownership, creativity and the power of words.

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Live Action, Premiere

Charlotte Serena Cooper Dismantles Queer Screen Death Tropes with Genre Pastiche in Riotous Satire ‘Bury Your Gays’

Drawing on years of script supervision, Charlotte Serena Cooper masters the visual grammar of five distinct genres to subvert a tired cinematic cliché.

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Art & Fashion

François Larpin Finds Absurdist Poetry in Restraint in the Surreal Holiday Storytelling of ‘A Festive Tale’

Faced with the saturated festive ad space, François Larpin built a distinctive world, stripping Christmas to its essence for his branded seasonal triptych.

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Live Action

Victor Nauwynck Pumps Primal Desire Into Marital Decay in His Transgressive & Visually Arresting Short ‘The Bull’

Victor Nauwynck discusses how pivoting from a planned, restrained visual style to reactive handheld cinematography unlocked his film's animalistic crescendo.

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Animation, Documentary

Ruben Gagliardini Conjures an Animated Chimera to Battle Corporate Cynicism in His Documentary ‘Macchina Continua’

Ruben Gagliardini talks to DN about constructing a hand-drawn machine-as-character to illuminate the human cost of Italy's deindustrialised heartland.

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Animation, Premiere

Thomas Laurance Exorcises Creative Paralysis Through DIY Rotoscoping in His Scatological Satire ‘Tortured Artist’

Thomas Laurance deconstructs the unequivocally independent process of his joyfully crude sub-£100 comedy short lampooning the toxic pressure to make good art.

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Awards, Live Action

Vanity Propels a Disturbing Longing for the Past in Kathryn Ferguson’s BAFTA Nominated Belfast-Set Short ‘Nostalgie’

Kathryn Ferguson dissects the tonal shift in her Belfast-set drama debut where a faded 80s pop star's hope of reliving his glory days hits a chilling reality.

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Live Action

Caleb J. Roberts Transcends Preconceived Notions of Gay Relationships and Intimacy in His Tender Short ‘Purebred’

Using long, slow takes, Caleb J. Roberts details drawing us almost uncomfortably close into his tender and intimate relationship between on-off-again lovers.

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Live Action

Temperatures & Tensions Rise as a Grifter Faces the Music in Chelsie Pennello’s Hectic Comedy ‘Cherry-Colored Funk’

Orchestrating a symphony of controlled chaos, Chelsie Pennello & Corbett Blair reveal how they used the tiny confines of an ice cream shop set to full effect.

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