With “everyday” life on hold for the most of us, as lockdowns continue around the world, once again putting together a monthly round-up of our content feels like somewhat of a trivial task. In these strange times though, I’ve found S/W a welcome distraction and a comforting constant, when everything around me is in turmoil. I like to hope it provides something similar for others.

With people stuck indoors and public gatherings called-off, people have turned to the internet for entertainment and April proved a busy month here at Short of the Week. With film festivals continuing to be postponed or opting to go virtual and filmmakers having to delay production, we were proud to be involved in the launch of the #ShelterShorts initiative, with the hope it would help channel creativity. You can view the best of the shorts so far here and if you have your own film you want to enter, you can do it on the website.

The 30-days of April saw us feature 22 shorts, including the end of the long-running animated saga Bendito Machine, one of the first films we ever covered on S/W, and a handful of festival favourites – Analysis Paralysis, Peripheria, Wild Love and Sundance-winning The Devil’s Harmony (online for a short time – so watch it while you can)

Those brilliant shorts, all missed out on our ‘Best of the Month’ picks however, as the S/W team opted to select a deeply personal documentary, a surprisingly moving story of a woman ready to stretch her boundaries and a visually grand and emotionally resonant short about a man with a hankering for pie.