Oldenburg Film Festival 2025 - The Film Verdict

The Innocents

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 12, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025 |

German Tejada updates Oswaldo Reynoso into contemporary Lima in The Innocents, a grungy coming-of-age drama that explores burgeoning sexuality and youthful alienation.

The Boy with White Skin

Posted 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.

Under the Burning Sun

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 12, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025 |

Incandescent rage sets alight Under the Burning Sun, a road trip through a merciless dystopian desert where women’s bodies are not their own.

Gunman

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 11, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025 |

The backstreets of Buenos Aires are a deadly labyrinth in Gunman, a hyper-kinetic, bravura single take thriller from Chris Tapia Marchiori.

Mouse

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 11, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025, Verdict Shorts |

Paranoia and past trauma come to bear in Mouse, Rosie Barrett’s short small-town drama infused with an impressive, slowly building tension.

Tag: Oldenburg Film Festival 2025

The Innocents

The Boy with White Skin

Under the Burning Sun

Gunman

Mouse