USA - The Film Verdict

Under the Burning Sun

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 12, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025 |

Incandescent rage sets alight Under the Burning Sun, a road trip through a merciless dystopian desert where women’s bodies are not their own.

How to Shoot a Ghost

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 1, 2025 | Festivals, VENICE 2025, Verdict Shorts |

Mortality is on the mind in Charlie Kaufman’s contemplative and illusory short, How to Shoot a Ghost – an enveloping, chimeric memento mori.

Saint Clare

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 13, 2024 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2024 |

Mitzi Peirone’s sophomore feature, Saint Clare, about a college student on a mission from God to rid the world of predatory men is stylish, weird, sometimes overdone – and a blast.

Bits

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 12, 2024 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2024, Verdict Shorts |

A woman in smalltown Montana has a near miss with a serial killer but becomes obsessed with being his victim the dark, absorbing drama – Bits.

Skin

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 10, 2024 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2024, Verdict Shorts |

A young woman confronts her true self in the mirror in this beautifully shot and symbolic evocation of an individual’s transition from female to male in Leo Behrens’ Skin.

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Under the Burning Sun

How to Shoot a Ghost

Saint Clare

Bits

Skin