The Sleeping Beauty
Mattie Do’s The Sleeping Beauty is a beguiling fairy tale of accursed love that blends fantasy and horror, born of traditional Laotian folklore.
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Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 13, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025, Verdict Shorts |
Mattie Do’s The Sleeping Beauty is a beguiling fairy tale of accursed love that blends fantasy and horror, born of traditional Laotian folklore.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 13, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025 |
Louise Hemon’s feature fiction debut, The Girl in the Snow, takes real life stories and conjures with them an enthralling period chamber piece with folk horror inflections.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 12, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025, Verdict Shorts |
Labour and mythology come crashing together in The Boy with White Skin, a disquieting short set in the pitch darkness of a Senegalese gold mine.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 9, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025, Verdict Shorts |
A single wide-angle perspective gives an eerily voyeuristic air to the smart, lowkey exercise in building tension – Dammen.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 29, 2025 | Festivals, VENICE 2025, Verdict Shorts |
Said Zagha’s pulsating neo-noir probes at the dark consequences of being pushed to breaking point in Coyotes, a genre-inflected Palestinian short.
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