short - The Film Verdict

Dear Orchid

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 17, 2026 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2026, Verdict Shorts |

Dear Orchid is a poetic and diaristic documentary, using the perspective of a child to ruminate on fleeing the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.

Their Eyes

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 16, 2026 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2026, Verdict Shorts |

“We are basically their eyes, but it is like we don’t exist.” These are the...

All This Death

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 5, 2026 | Amman 2026, Verdict Shorts |

An elderly man in Beirut wrestles with grief and his own mortality in All This Death, Fadi Syriani’s poignant and accomplished stop-motion animation.

Aicha

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 3, 2026 | Amman 2026, Verdict Shorts |

A mother goes to extreme and mystical lengths to reconnect with her daughter in Aicha, a disquieting, fragmentary and politically pointed folk horror-inflected short.

32B

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 3, 2026 | Amman 2026, Verdict Shorts |

A widower becomes aware of his daughter becoming a woman in 32B, Mohamed Tamer’s awkward but touching Cairo-set comedy.

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Dear Orchid

Their Eyes

All This Death

Aicha

32B