Ben Nicholson - The Film Verdict

Horseshoe

Familial fractures persist across decades in Edwin Mullane and Adam O’Keeffe’s deftly observed and emotive debut feature, Horseshoe.

A single wide-angle perspective gives an eerily voyeuristic air to the smart, lowkey exercise in building tension – Dammen.

The city in Lower Saxony comes to life with the return of Germany’s top indie festival, the Oldenburg Film Festival.

Mortality is on the mind in Charlie Kaufman’s contemplative and illusory short, How to Shoot a Ghost – an enveloping, chimeric memento mori.

Said Zagha’s pulsating neo-noir probes at the dark consequences of being pushed to breaking point in Coyotes, a genre-inflected Palestinian short.