Alone Together
A checkpoint stop en route to Tehran leads to a young boy being held for drug possession. A moral quandary ensues in the emotive short, Alone Together.
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Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 14, 2024 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2024, Verdict Shorts |
A checkpoint stop en route to Tehran leads to a young boy being held for drug possession. A moral quandary ensues in the emotive short, Alone Together.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 14, 2024 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2024 |
The director and actress couple Na Gyi and Paing Phyo Thu have been in hiding since having to flee after their arrest was ordered by the military junta in 2021.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 14, 2024 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2024 |
The tale of Maximilian of Habsburg and Charlotte of Belgium is reimagined in A History of Love and War, an anarchic, absurdist black comedy about colonisation and corruption in a fantastical Mexico.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 14, 2024 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2024 |
A man finds himself confined in a doorless room in Nicolai Schumann’s claustrophobic monochrome character study, The Lonely Musketeer, built on a remarkable performance by Edward Hogg.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 13, 2024 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2024, Verdict Shorts |
Two young children are left to find their own way when their father commits suicide in Diego Gaxiola’s poignant magical realist short, Nostalgia of a (Still) Alive Heart.
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