happiness
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 | 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.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 21, 2025 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2025, Verdict Shorts |
The documentary vignette ‘I Believe the Portrait Saved Me’ uses a deeply personal story to explore the power of creativity and evoke the teetering knife edge of survival.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Apr 6, 2025 | Festivals, Visions du Réel 2025 |
Monica Stromdahl’s raw, intimate doc portrait of a teen living in cramped quarters with his alcoholic parents champions the resilience of youth and the dismantling of shame.
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