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Broken Voices

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 10, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025 |

The insidiousness of abuse is expertly explored in Broken Voices, a restrained but devastating loss-of-innocence drama from Ondrej Provaznik.

perfectly a strangeness

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 10, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025, Verdict Shorts |

The short experimental documentary ‘perfectly a strangeness’ pairs the mundane with the majestic in an equine odyssey to the stars.

Dammen

Posted 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.

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 Believe the Portrait Saved Me

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 21, 2025 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2025, Verdict Shorts |

The documentary vignette ‘I Believe the Portrait Saved Me’ uses a deeply personal story to explore the power of creativity and evoke the teetering knife edge of survival.

Tag: short film

Broken Voices

perfectly a strangeness

Dammen

Coyotes

I Believe the Portrait Saved Me