Rahhala: Hayya ala Hayya
Harrowing memories of domestic abuse are recounted over striking images of the natural world in Rahhala: Hayya ala Hayya, Lujain Jo’s beautiful and brutal reckoning with trauma.
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Posted by Ben Nicholson | Nov 17, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, IDFA 2025, Verdict Shorts |
Harrowing memories of domestic abuse are recounted over striking images of the natural world in Rahhala: Hayya ala Hayya, Lujain Jo’s beautiful and brutal reckoning with trauma.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Nov 17, 2025 | IDFA 2025, Featured, Festivals, Verdict Shorts |
Lasse Linder’s equine documentary, Air Horse One, is a quiet portrait of a champion thoroughbred – a behind the scenes peek that is meditative though never profound.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Nov 15, 2025 | IDFA 2025, Featured, Verdict Shorts |
Firat Yucel’s desktop documentary, happiness, is an impressive attempt to convey the helplessness and emotional overwhelm felt in the contemporary, hyper-connected world.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 10, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025, Verdict Shorts |
The short experimental documentary ‘perfectly a strangeness’ pairs the mundane with the majestic in an equine odyssey to the stars.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 22, 2025 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2025, Verdict Shorts |
Antoine Chapon repurposes eerie architectural animations in ‘The Orchards,’ a paean to a lost Damascus community that attempts to resist its eradication by a vindictive regime.
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