ADASTRA Films

  • Festival

    The ShortList Online Film Festival: Part 2

    No preamble, if you want to learn more about this fantastic online competition, check out the first half of our coverage from yesterday. Again, due to embedding restrictions, please visit the festival website to view the films.

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    Documentary Mohammad Gorjestani

    Exit 12

    After two tours in Fallujah during the Iraq War, US Marine Roman Baca came home a different person. To deal with his depression, anxiety, and anger, Roman turned to an unlikely place — ballet.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: November 2022

    A life-changing documentary, an innovative coming-of-age tale and an animation about poop make up our Best of the Month picks from our November 2022 coverage.

  • S/W Awards

    The Short Awards 2025: The Winners

    The jury has made their selections, the Audience Choice votes are in, and the S/W team has chosen the one standout short from our 2024 coverage to receive the Trailblazer prize. That means it’s officially awards time!

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    Drama Bertil Nilsson

    Alfie's Island

    Karim seeks to free himself from the echoes of his past relationship with Alfie, on a trip to their special island.

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    Documentary

    The Shock Doctrine

    "Literary trailer" for the book by the same name, this short, produced by "Children of Men" director Alfonso Cuarón, mixes archival footage as well nifty motion graphics to dramatize the book's thesis.

  • Festival

    Short of the Week's SXSW Shorts Week

    Short of the Week is kicking off a week-long celebration of short films that were set to play at the SXSW 2020 Film Festival. #SXSWshorts

  • Festival

    The ShortList Online Film Festival: Part 1

    Part 1 coverage of The Wrap's debut online short film festival. Knowing Chris Kezelos from his film Zero, a favorite of both Andrew and I, we were certainly excited to receive an email from him stating that his newest film, The Maker, was coming online.

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    Documentary Duncan Cowles

    Alexithymia

    What's it like to feel no emotion? Duncan Cowles returns to Short of the Week with his latest documentary exploring the condition of Alexithymia

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