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Circle

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 19, 2024 | Berlinale 2024, Festivals, Verdict Shorts |

A young girl draws a circle on the ground and people are drawn to stand within its borders in Joung Yumi’s typically mannered and strangely engrossing monochrome animation.

Muna

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 16, 2024 | Berlinale 2024, Festivals, Verdict Shorts |

A teenager navigates the social pressures of school and the expectations of family in Muna, a thoughtful coming-of-age drama about personal desires and dislocated grief.

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.

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Circle

Muna

An Asian Ghost Story

Lumene: Privatisation

Zima