Giulia Carbonaro
- Jul 30, 2023
SHORT FOCUS 2022: So What Did We Learn Today, Georgina? [Franco Volpi, UK, 2022]
England, 1992. It’s a day like any other when the chirpy Georgina, still in her grey and dark blue uniform, returns home from school to...
Wendy Brooking
- Sep 4, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2022: Throw Your Heart Over First [Mark McAuley, Ireland, 2021]
“Throw your heart over first and the rest will follow, he used to say. I wanted to make him proud; I hope he is,” says Dave, a bereaved...
Matthew Procter
- Aug 11, 2022
The Story of a Trout [Gareth Leah, USA, 2022]
The remote, northern land of Alaska is deemed by many to be inhospitable or even dangerous to those unfamiliar with the trials and...
Matthew Procter
- Feb 28, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: Cornflakes Are Rubbish [Charlotte Nind/Jacob Bacon, UK, 2021]
The opening shot of Cornflakes Are Rubbish immediately draws questions from the film’s audience. Said audience could be forgiven for...
Juliette Howard
- Jan 30, 2022
The Skin She Sheds [Cass Virdee, UK, 2022]
Faye Stoeser is positively electrifying in Cass Virdee’s fleeting short The Skin She Sheds, about a gang member who discards her old...
Juliette Howard
- Jan 17, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: Original Sin [Paolo Sinigaglia, Italy, 2020]
Drunk and jealous, a man enters his wife’s painting studio unveiling one of her canvases, which depicts a man embraced by a fire and the...
Matthew Procter
- Jan 17, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: Bohemia [Samuel Kaperski, France, 2019]
On a rooftop above the bustling streets of Los Angeles, bohemian artist Paul (Jordan Rountree) is awoken from his outdoor slumber by the...
Madeleine Raven
- Jan 9, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: Yuluu [Fatima Kried, UK, 2021]
Yuluu is strikingly simple at first glance, but this downplays the use of animation techniques to present a child’s view of war and...
Shane Farrell
- Jan 9, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: The Fell Runner [Alex Simpson/Phillip Suddick, UK, 2019]
Alex Simpson and Phillip Suddick’s short film poetically explores personal battles and unity in the relationship between humanity and...
Juliette Howard
- Jan 9, 2022
SHORT FOCUS 2021: A Knowing of Loss [Marc Puig Biel, Spain, 2020]
Coming-of-age summer films invariably conjure up images of sun-bleached hair, timid first love, endless boredom, and hours on end spent...