coming of age

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    Documentary Duncan Cowles

    In the Company of Insects

    Prompted by the death of his grandfather, a filmmaker comes to terms with his feelings of loss by focussing on something smaller.

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    Lessons From a Decade of Short Film (2010-2019)

    The 2010s was the decade that streaming video exploded into the mainstream, read how Short film drove improvements in streaming quality, shaped how films are made, defined new genres, and changed how we think about film releases.

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    Best of the Month: January 2022

    The Short of the Week team has voted. Dive into our first Best of the Month playlist of 2022.

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    Drama Meryam Joobeur

    Ikhwène (Brotherhood)

    One of the most acclaimed shorts of the year, and a frontrunner for Oscar. Mohamed is a shepherd in rural Tunisia with his wife and two young sons. Their world is shaken when their oldest son returns after a long journey with a mysterious woman he says is his wife.

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    Drama Boris Vesselinov

    Red April

    In 1876 Bulgaria, a desperate revolutionary must convince a room of suspecting Ottoman soldiers that he is innocent.

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    Dark Comedy Tobias Rud

    The TOBOS

    Something is wrong with Bean-TOBO’s insides... Subversively set within a cute-silly world, a short film that tackles themes of vulnerability, feelings of unworthiness, and the connection that we truly crave with each other.

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