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Rotation

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 1, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026, Verdict Shorts |

A young woman goes through a form of hypnotherapy in Maryna Er Gorbach’s luminous, evocative and deeply moving new short, Rotation.

Last Shot

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jan 31, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026, Verdict Shorts |

The sobering drama, ‘Last Shot’, pays homage to journalists killed in Palestine with an affecting tale about displacement and a photographer’s final, tragic image.

Coyotes

Posted 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.

I’m Not a Robot

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jan 14, 2025 | Featured |

A woman repeatedly fails a Captcha test and starts to wonder whether she is, in fact, a robot in the high concept identity crisis drama, I’m Not a Robot.

Man Number 4

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Nov 19, 2024 | Festivals, IDFA 2024, Verdict Shorts |

How we consume images and what it means to be a distant onlooker lie at the heart of Miranda Pennell’s sobering, analytical short, Man Number 4.

Tag: short

Rotation

Last Shot

Coyotes

I’m Not a Robot

Man Number 4