Short Focus Film Festival 2019

REVIEWS

SHORT FOCUS 2019: August Sun [Franco Volpi, Argentina, 2018]

In chapter five of Franz Kafka’s The Trial, Joseph K. is passing along a corridor in his office when he happens upon a storage closet...

SHORT FOCUS 2019: August Sun [Franco Volpi, Argentina, 2018]

August Sun achieves what many short filmmakers try and fail to do: high emotional impact.

I Am Joseph [Tomisin Adepeju, UK, 2019]

I Am Joseph follows a carpenter named Joseph whose fiancée, Mary, has revealed that she is pregnant and that the father is God. The film est

Their Story [Joe Harvey, UK, 2019]

Their Story revolves around a couple, Baz and Danielle, played by Anthony Vander and Jade Abode. Despite being engaged, Baz left Danielle fi

Reckless Love [Josh Wichaison, Australia, 2018]

One positive is the effective use of colouring and lighting transitions to communicate not only shifts in the passage of time, but also in t

Subverse (Ep. 1+2) [Joseph White, USA, 2018]

Subverse is the brainchild of sci-fi director, Joseph White, a web series that follows lead character, ‘Max’ on his journey into the sordid

Sheriff [James L. Adams, UK, 2019]

The first is the short’s well-chosen selection of music, which helps remind the viewer of its Western traditions and assists in grounding th

SHORT FOCUS 2019: Teddy Mate [Rommel Villa, USA, 2018]

Teddy Mate delivers a ‘disneyfied’ version of what, regrettably, is still too often viewed as an ‘alternative message’, forced for too long

Pupil [Meysam Muyini, Iran, 2018]

Pupil tells the confusing story of a man living out a sci-fi nightmare. Confined in a clinically barren room, he is haunted by flashes of th