Short Films

The technical work is very good but more than matched only by the quality of the acting.

Catcalls is billed as horror but will be, for many viewers, more of an antidote to a horror that's part of day to day life.

It's never entirely clear how much of what is happening might be visible to others and how much exists in the shared imaginary between mother and child.

A simple idea brilliantly rendered.

Director Ida Jogler uses fantastic elements to put across the violence inherent in her protagonist's gaze.

Elsalihie is good in the central role, conveying not just terror but the sense of despair that comes from knowing there's nowhere to run.

Though set in the US, Lupkin's film makes allusions to Northern European folklore.

Nose Nose Nose Eyes! is likely to make most viewers look away and some leave the room.

Sara Kestelman takes a simply drawn character and gives her depth and complexity.

This film is likely to be adored by many cancer patients themselves, capturing exactly the kind of black humour one encounters on cancer wards.

The film is expertly performed.

This film makes it clear that lemur versus nature is the future.

Kjersti Helen Rasmussen's short film is grown up science fiction, quietly logical.

Who's Who In Mycology is one of those short films that's so richly imagined that it feels like a fragment of a much bigger work.