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...
Dean Archibald-Smith
- Mar 12, 2023
In the Eyes of a Child [Marco Ferrara, Italy, 2023]
In the Eyes of a Child opens with booming, double-pounding drums like a beating heart, paired with emotive piano chords, the melancholic...
Dean Archibald-Smith
- Mar 12, 2023
Two Knights [Piotr Szkopiak, UK, 2022]
High tension, drama, and theological rumination are the orders of the day in this smart short film, which transports biblical characters...
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...
Dean Archibald-Smith
- Jul 31, 2022
My Name is Moe [Kabir McNeely, USA, 2022]
My Name is Moe is an American short film that attempts to deal with the very serious and widespread issue of eating disorders. It centres...
Matthew Procter
- May 22, 2022
Borrowed Time [Ginevra Gentili, UK, 2022]
As young Olivia arrives home to reunite with her mother, it is immediately made clear that the pair are not as close as they perhaps...
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...