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a river holds a perfect memory

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 5, 2025 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2025, Verdict Shorts |

Tying together disparate locations in Northern England and Jamaica, Hope Strickland’s evocative boat ride, ‘a river holds a perfect memory,’ explores the interrelations between labour, memory and rivers.

Cleaner

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 13, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023, Verdict Shorts |

A tentative friendship begins between a cleaner and the woman who employs her in Cleaner, a delicately wrought drama about relationships and their boundaries.

A Tortoise’s Year of Fate

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 5, 2023 | Festivals, Locarno 2023, Verdict Shorts |

A factory worker wrestles with a dispiriting future in this short about a fortune-telling tortoise and a desire for self-determination.

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a river holds a perfect memory

Cleaner

A Tortoise’s Year of Fate