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OVERCAST short film reviews
OVERCAST, 3min., USA, Animation
Directed by Aleksandar Mindov
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THE ORCHESTRA CHUCK BUILT short film review
THE ORCHESTRA CHUCK BUILT, 23min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Christopher Stoudt
In 2016, the League of American Orchestras conducted a study that revealed a shocking statistic: only 1.8% of the professional orchestra workforce in the US is Black. From an old church rec room in the inner city o... -
AVE GRAVIDA short film review
AVE GRADIVA, 18min., Israel
Directed by Yuri Riklis
When a lonely man, a fashion photographer, meets the sweetheart of his youth, from whom he separated under the pressure of his Oedipal mother, he is attacked by fragments of past memories and does everything he can to realize the love of his lif... -
THE PIRATE short film review (interview)
THE PIRATE, 8min., UK
Directed by Ruth Carnegie
A young girl, stuck in the city, dreams of running away to the sea. With the help of her grandfather, she finds a rather unusual way to break free.
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THE ART OF ADAPTING short film reviews
THE ART OF ADAPTING, 11min., Austria, Documentary
Directed by Miriam Joanna
Originally from Austria and with over 80 countries under her explorer belt, Gabi first came to Western Australia (aka “WA”) on a kitesurfing mission in 2007. Falling madly in love with the raw, rugged and isolated wild be... -
SALUT short film review
SALUT, 3min., Isreal
Directed by Yuri Riklis
George Ginsburg (40s) is a new immigrant from France, a guitar player in a night club in Tel Aviv . His whole emotional world is - his girlfriend Michelle (late 20s) also immigrated from France and his dog Packo. When he receives a message about Michel... -
MUSIC Shorts Festival - Sept. 13/14 event
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WE ARE LEGENDS, 9min., Brazil
Directed by Bruna Valentini
Time as we know it first came from a young man, but little did he know, he wasn’t the only one with powers and time on his hands.CLARITY, 6min., Germany
Directed by Marcus Patrick Witte, Nupelda Ciftci
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CASSIS MARS DEMYSTIFIED short film review (interview)
CaSSIS. Mars Demystified, 17min., Switzerland
Directed by Tatiana Keller
CaSSIS is a high-resolution color stereo camera in Mars orbit, making remarkable images of the Red planet. So what mysteries has it revealed today?
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TWIN OAKS short film review
TWIN OAKS, 13min., USA
Directed by Sean O'Connor
"Twin Oaks" is a captivating documentary about the Hoyt family, and their experiences trail building in the Pacific Northwest spanning over many years and multiple generations. The documentary chronicles the profound relationship a human develops w... -
ODD/EVEN short film review
ODD/EVEN, 16min., USA
Directed by Ya-Ting "Itchy" Yang
In the near future, people only wake up in either odd-numbered years or even-numbered years and hibernate in “The Capsule” during the inactive period. A promising young actress escapes from her devoted yet toxic partner on the last day of 2043. -
WILD TERRITORY short film review (interview)
WILD TERRITORY, 27min., USA
Directed by Samuel Steiner Riley
Wild Territory explores the relationship between a daring wildlife photographer, Etienne Littlefair, and the vast freshwater ecosystems that define Australia's far north. From free-diving in murky water to find crocodiles and rare turtl... -
Salted Earth short film review (interview)
SALTED EARTH, 20min., Canada
Directed by Ben Hemmings
"Salted Earth" plunges us into the heart of an invisible and creeping crisis that's transforming the Mid-Atlantic – the inexorable rise of sea levels. This hard-hitting, yet tenderly woven 20-minute documentary paints a vivid picture of an esc... -
BATTLE PLAN short film review
BATTLE PLAN, 5min., France
Directed by John Banana, Mathilde Michea
A car ride with Mum results in an epiphany for a young girl who must imagine her way to a better future.Her ideas grow and with them the chance to make a real difference. -
STORIES WE COULD HAVE TOLD YOU short film review
STORIES WE COULD HAVE TOLD YOU, 19min., USA
Directed by Darcy Miller
A mother's bedtime stories take on a surprising and moving life, as she and her daughter process the loss of her husband.
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OUT OF CONTROL short film review (interview)
OUT OF CONTROL, 16min,. Switzerland
Directed by bellopropello
Machines and robots take care of almost all human activities. The world is automated, and meaningful individual employment isn't possible anymore. A workforce simply is no longer needed – except for some monitoring activities – and hum... -
ROGER CASEMENT - A BIOGRAPHY short film review (interview)
ROGER CASEMENT - A BIOGRAPHY, 4min,. UK
Directed by Danny Coyne
In 1904 Roger Casement exposed the atrocities committed in King Leopold II’s private fiefdom, the Belgian Congo. The estimation is that this occupation and slave trade led to the deaths of an upward estimation of 10 million people. T... -
HINTER-LAND short film review (interview)
HINTER-LAND, 13min., Canada
Directed by Christopher Angus
A musical gardener ejects his hired hand, leading to things on his little planet going horribly astray.
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ALGORITHM TAKEDOWN short film review (interview)
ALGORITHM TAKEDOWN, 4min., USA
Directed by Alex Budovsky
“Algorithm Takedown” is an animated music video that is commissioned and performed by Hip Hop and Hot Jazz Timpanist, Jonathan Haas aka Jonny H. and the Prisoners of Swing bringing to life the music composed by legendary drummer Lenny White... -
FLOAT ON HOPE short film review (interview)
FLOAT ON HOPE, 5min., USA
Directed by Debra DeNicola, John DeNicola
Float on Hope reflects on our feelings of how we are leaving planet Earth to our children and fellow beings. We thought the idea could be illustrated through the eyes of a young mouse that lives in the Amazon rainforest near Mana... -
CRIME/HORROR Festival Showcase - Sept. 12/13 event
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BRINK, 27min., Canada
Directed by David VanDyke
Out of work and desperate for money, a struggling family man plots an elaborate scheme to secure a cash grab that would exceed his drug-fueled ambitions.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16899900/?ref_=nm_knf_i3
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ICE AGE AMERICA. Science/Nature Festival. Sept. 11/12 event
ICE AGE AMERICA, 90min., Canada, Documentary
Directed by Robin Bicknell
New archaeological discoveries from the Canadian Arctic down to Chile are pushing back the date of human arrival in the Americas to 30,000 years before the present era – approximately 15,000 years earlier than previously beli... -
NOVEL MOVIE: Blood Pudding, by Ivan Cox
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In a mining company town outside Pittsburgh, a 9-year-old boy's mother dies of a self-inflicted botched abortion. This tragedy leaves the narrator Tad Malinowski and his 6 siblings to deal with the...
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EXPERIMENTAL/FASHION Film Festival - Sept. 10/11 event
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SAINT, 10min., USA, Fashion
Directed by Yi - Han Audrey Chou
Saint seeks to present a process of evolution that is about spiritual change, technology, and identity of a human being. Through the transformation in 3 layers of clothings, which represent the past, pres... -
SCIENCE & NATURE Film Festival - Sept. 9/10 event
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CREATURES OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE, 18min,. UK
Directed by Hannah Jodie Alexander
Exploring one of nature's most magical creatures. Follow us and see how they use their colour changing and shape shifting abilities to survive and thrive in the open ocean.THE FOREST GRO...