short films - The Film Verdict

An Asian Ghost Story

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Oct 13, 2023 | Festivals, Leipzig 2023, Verdict Shorts |

Mass wig exportation becomes the lens through which the fascinating, spectral doc An Asian Ghost Story explores Hong Kong’s late 20th-century modernisation and position between East and West.

Lumene: Privatisation

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Oct 11, 2023 | Festivals, Leipzig 2023, Verdict Shorts |

In the complex and thought-provoking essay film, Lumene: Privatisation, David Shongo reflects on the commodification of cultural memory and the lasting impacts of insidious colonial impositions.

Zima

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Oct 10, 2023 | Festivals, Leipzig 2023, Verdict Shorts |

The chill is both atmospheric and emotional in Zima, a scratchy, punkish, magical realist animation about life in a quiet, snow-laden fishing village.

Three Windows on South West

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Oct 9, 2023 | Festivals, Leipzig 2023, Verdict Shorts |

An ostensibly simplistic documentary about a flat in Kyiv, Three Windows on South West uses incidental memories to paint a fleeting collective portrait of another time.

Sea Salt

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 5, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023, Verdict Shorts |

The inconsistencies of adolescence are the challenges of burgeoning womanhood are central to Leila Basma’s knotty and intoxicating coming-of-age short, Sea Salt.

Tag: short films

An Asian Ghost Story

Lumene: Privatisation

Zima

Three Windows on South West

Sea Salt