Their Eyes
“We are basically their eyes, but it is like we don’t exist.” These are the...
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 16, 2026 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2026, Verdict Shorts |
“We are basically their eyes, but it is like we don’t exist.” These are the...
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 11, 2026 | Featured, Verdict Shorts |
Marjolaine Perreten’s expressive animation, Singularity, combines a goofy and loveable protagonist with a sombre depiction of nature’s red teeth and claws in twilight of the Ice Age.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 5, 2026 | Amman 2026, Verdict Shorts |
An elderly man in Beirut wrestles with grief and his own mortality in All This Death, Fadi Syriani’s poignant and accomplished stop-motion animation.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 3, 2026 | Amman 2026, Verdict Shorts |
A mother goes to extreme and mystical lengths to reconnect with her daughter in Aicha, a disquieting, fragmentary and politically pointed folk horror-inflected short.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 3, 2026 | Amman 2026, Verdict Shorts |
A widower becomes aware of his daughter becoming a woman in 32B, Mohamed Tamer’s awkward but touching Cairo-set comedy.
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