25/02/2023 - BERLINALE 2023: The festival has also announced the winners of Perspektive Deutsches Kino, alongside the recipients of the other parallel awards decided on by independent juries
With hundreds of films screened at the Berlinale, it can be hard to know which to watch. We've made it simple. Here are twelve movies worth your while.
Mary Beth McAndrews
, January 26th, 2021 14:33
This year s London Short Film Festival reckoned with our housebound circumstances to explore ideas of digital intimacy using found footage, finds Mary Beth McAndrews
We live in an era of Internet domination, where most of our relationships exist at least in some part online – so it only makes sense for films to try to sort through this new way of interacting. At this year’s London Short Film Festival, there was a theme that echoes throughout the entire program about the digitally mediated body. By creating narratives that give the appearance of happening entirely online, filmmakers are adopting elements from the found footage horror genre, particularly with techniques seen in features such as 2014’s
Madeleine Seidel
, January 22nd, 2021 09:26
This year s virtual edition of the London Short Film Festival understands our fraught definitions of home more than ever, Madeleine Seidel finds across several key titles
A lot can happen in a minute. Nothing shows this better than the short film. The London Short Film Festival has been an incubator for exciting new filmmakers working in this truncated format since 2003, and this year is no different.The 2021 virtual line-up features both established names and upcoming international talents redefining what’s possible in the short film format, showing us new worlds and perspectives in a matter of minutes. Although there is no overarching theme for the festival, the connecting element of many of the best shorts is how our relationship to our environs is malleable and ever-changing, and our definitions of home are affected just as much by time and place as they are identity. These shorts turn the concept of home inside out: they attend to