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Lucia, Before and After
Last year’s winner of the Sundance Short Film Jury Award, Anu Valia’s Lucia, Before and After, tells the story of a young woman (Sarah Goldberg) who has to wait out a state-mandated 24-hour period...
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Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Of the 3 short-form Oscar categories, nominated documentaries feel the least like their online brethren, due to their length. Routinely pushing the Academy limit of 40 minutes, these documentaries...
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Flight
Many of the filmmakers who have been drawn to the Syrian Civil War and its resultant refugee crisis are outsiders to it—they are Europeans and Americans of a reportorial tradition, drawn by a sense of...
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Behind
To a parent, there’s nothing scarier than the thought of losing a child. Spanish filmmaker Ángel Gómez Hernández taps into this darkly relatable fear to add nuance and depth to a horror genre that too...
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Cul-De-Sac
The relationship between siblings is a fascinating thing. If you have a brother or sister that you’re close with, you’ll know that they can be your dearest, most reliable of friends. They can also get...
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Chau, Beyond the Lines
One of the truly amazing artist profile documentaries of recent years, Chau, Beyond the Lines follows an 8-year journey alongside its titular subject, from Chau’s residence in a special country-side...
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How Was Your Day?
As a young dad of two, I can retrospectively look back and say my biggest fear about becoming a father was that one of my kids would be born disabled. It sounds awful to say out loud, but I, honestly,...
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BACCHUS
Danish school The Animation Workshop has provided us with a constant stream of content since we first discovered their work back in 2011 – when we featured The Backwater Gospeland Mighty Antlers....
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Best of the Month: February 2018
The start of a new year, January is often seen as a month of new resolutions and a time to sort your life out. Whether this happens or not is often down to an individual’s resolve but it’s a common...
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Alexithymia
Throughout my life, I’ve been told a couple of times I “lack emotion”, but I wasn’t aware there was a condition where people suffer from the inability to identify and describe emotions, until I saw...
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Best of the Month: January 2018
The start of a new year, January is often seen as a month of new resolutions and a time to sort your life out. Whether this happens or not is often down to an individual’s resolve but it’s a common...
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The Only People Who Have Ever Seen Rob's Penis
How many people have seen your genitals? Think hard. It’s not just your sexual partners. Your parents for sure, most likely your grandparents too, doctors, nurses, open shower spectators… Now, imagine...
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Taxfree
Norwegian filmmaker Henry K. Norvalls has been quite prolific on Short of the Week over the past year. In the last six months, we have featured two of his shorts: the intense Shower and the subtly...
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Happy Valentine's Day
It’s hard not be impressed by a film like Happy Valentine’s Day. A visual fx showpiece from commercial directors (and brothers), Andrew and Remy Neymarc, it’s a sumptuous feast for the eyes—a sweeping...
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Edith+Eddie
Initially, Edith+Eddie, a short documentary from Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters), seems like a dose of concentrated cute—the kind of real life story designed to go viral on Facebook....
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Pretext
Pretext is not a film that relies on twists or dramatic swings of plot, yet it manages to upend expectations frequently, and rewards an audience that comes to it without expectations or...
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Agua Donkeys
Short of the Week alum MP Cunningham (Ford Clitaurus) is back today with his brand new short film Agua Donkeys. Buckle up for a sunny, quirky comedy about two pool boys, MP and Jer, simply trying to...
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I Like Girls
It’s Valentine’s Day and whether or not you choose to observe this so-called “Hallmark holiday”, you will celebrate this topical short film. An anthology of vignettes, I Like Girls sees renowned...
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Growth
Single-shot films (or at least cleverly simulated single-takes) have become increasingly trendy the last couple of years. While the technique has been long appreciated by cineaste audiences, I credit...
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