Short of the Week

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    Comedy Rosa Friedrich

    Topfpalmen (Potted Palm Trees)

    Her dress is far too lavish and the toilet cubicle way too small for the bride to fit in. The ballroom is jam-packed and the mood alarmingly good. Something is about to burst: The groom’s delusion of grandeur? The pregnant belly of deaf Betti? Her stepfather’s patience? Or the wine-filled bladder of his ex-wife?

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    Oscar Short Films 2024: A Voter's Guide

    With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers, Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi, take on the role of voter and whittle the 45-title shortlists down to the 15 short films they think should advance to the nominations round.

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    Documentary Alexandra Kern

    Wild Magnolias

    Barber Bo Dollis teaches his proteges, Corey, Alvon, and JaCorey, the virtues of being a Mardi Gras Indian, a centuries-old subculture in New Orleans that shapes the minds of the youth community through mentorship, artistic expression, and cultural practice.

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    Drama Anthony Nicolau

    Push to Enter

    Amidst mounting pressures, a food deliverer (Laith Nakli) has his morality tested when he finds a pair of keys left on the outside of a customer's door, culminating in a night of anxiety and self-discovery.

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    Documentary Jennie Williams

    Nalujuk Night

    Every January 6th, families in the Inuit community of Nain, Canada, celebrate Nalujuk Night, when eerie figures in tattered fur clothing arrive to reward the good and punish the bad.

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    Drama Tal Kantor

    Letter to a Pig

    **CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.

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    2023: A Year in Review

    A look back at the year that was 2023 and all we achieved on Short of the Week & Shortverse.

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    Drama John Ogunmuyiwa

    Precious Hair & Beauty

    An ode to the mundanity and madness of the high street, told through the window of a West African hair salon. It’s the everyday antics of a bustling Highstreet.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: December 2023

    A meditative doc, a twisted FX piece and a layered coming-of-age tale make up our Best of the Month picks for December 2023

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    Experimental Nikita Diakur

    Backflip

    Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. None of that is nice, so my avatar does the trick. It practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning.

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