Rob Munday
With scary season supposedly coming to an end in October, we still managed to feature a quartet of sinister shorts – Landgraves, They Hear It, Hand in Hand & Significant Other – this month. Despite this, November very much felt like the beginning of awards season in the world of short film, with a number of Oscar contenders released online. We obviously think every short we feature on our site is a winner 
including this trio of films our team has picked as our latest ‘Best of the Month’ selection.
TEAM FAVOURITES
With a host of festivals favourites, a new Blender open short and a hilarious tale of an improv group to choose from, the S/W team turned its gaze (largely) to those aforementioned award contenders for our BotM picks:
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Y’a pas d’heure pour les femmes (Ain’t No Time for Women) by Sarra El Abed
Set in a Tunisian hair salon, this observational documentary immerses its audience in the parlour as we eavesdrop on its regulars, as they discuss politics and the upcoming presidential election. An introduction to Tunisian politics and a “love letter” to Tunisian women, Ain’t No Time for Women is both of these things and more, as El Abed shapes an engrossing film, full of warmth and humour – Rob Munday
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Free Fall by Emmanuel Tenenbaum
Tense stockmarket thriller in the vein of Wall Street or Margin Call that manages to hit home an effective moral message – Ivan Kander
Gone Viral by Savannah O’Leary
Like the film’s protagonist Ken Bone, Gone Viral is remarkable in its unremarkableness. As an unassumingly charming meditation on the nature of internet fame, the doc connects with audiences and calmly delivers its message about the effects on those who get caught up in the ephemeral memification of society, culture and politics. – Georg Csarmann
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MOST VIEWED
Migrants by Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte & Zoé Devise
Popular on both our site and YouTube channel, this impressive animation from the Pôle 3D school in France was the hands-down winner of our ‘Most Viewed’ film in November 2021.
Migrants is timely, gorgeous, and innovative with both story and form. It touches on two of our world’s biggest problems with a gut punch of an ending – Adam Banks
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