Short of the Week

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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.

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    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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    Horror Joachim Hérissé

    Écorchée (Skinned)

    In an old building, lost in the middle of the swamp, live two strange women, Siamese twins by one leg. At night, the Flayed has terrifying nightmares in which she sees her sister's flesh covering her own body...

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    Drama Hans Augustave

    I Held Him

    While a man falls deeper into the depths of pain and depression, his friend reluctantly chooses an uncomfortable solution to help him heal.

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    Documentary Laurence Topham & David Levene

    The Winterkeeper

    Steven Fuller is a winter caretaker who has lived at Yellowstone national park for the past 50 years. As the cold weather approaches and the seasonal transformation begins, he hunkers down in his remote mountain cabin. But Fuller and Yellowstone face an uncertain future, with the climate crisis threatening to forever change one of North America’s last great wildernesses

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    Documentary Omi Zola Gupta & Sparsh Ahuja's

    Birdsong

    Birdsong explores the dying whistling traditions of the Hmong people of northern Laos, whose sonic exchanges straddle the boundary between music and speech. The film follows the personal stories of three individuals from Long Lan village, as they reflect on their experience as practitioners of a vanishing musical language.

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