Second Skin
The collaboration between three filmmakers to re-enact sexual assaults suffered by Russian women, Second Skin, is a staggering and imperative act of bearing witness.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 3, 2026 | Festivals, Featured, Rotterdam 2026, Verdict Shorts |
The collaboration between three filmmakers to re-enact sexual assaults suffered by Russian women, Second Skin, is a staggering and imperative act of bearing witness.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 3, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026, Verdict Shorts |
Chloe Brenan’s shimmering psychogeographic short, Verdigris, explores the nature of control and freedom in urban design through the impositions and inferences of the Paris metro.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Feb 2, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026, Spotlight |
Tiago Melo brings satirical bite to genre thrills in ‘Yellow Cake’, his delirious sci-fi mix of geopolitics and apocalyptic fears in Brazil’s Northeast.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Feb 1, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026 |
A corruption scandal throws a nun into crisis in Australian-Filipino director James J. Robinson’s debut ‘First Light’, an intriguing, introspective slow-burner.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Jan 31, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026 |
Writer-director Charlotte Glynn balances hard-nosed grit and tenderness in her quietly devastating portrait of an injured teen gymnast in working-class Pittsburgh.
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