Ryan Connolly

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    Documentary Ema Ryan Yamazaki

    Instruments of a Beating Heart

    First graders at a Tokyo public school are presented with a challenge for their final semester: to form an orchestra and perform at a school ceremony.

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    Drama Brett Cramer

    It's Been A While

    Kate calls her ex for the first time in three years. Comedy ensues, but then a devastating confession.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: April 2022

    Tigers, ghosts and PowerPoint presentations feature in our Best of the month picks for April 2022

  • Oscar Films

    Oscars Short Films 2025: Predictions

    With the Oscars ceremony taking place this Sunday (March 2nd), the S/W team predict the winners in each of the three short film categories.

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    Experimental Dominic Bisignano

    From Burger it Came

    Bisignanoanimation uses a multitude of techniques to illustrate a humorous narrative account of one boy's fear of AIDS circa 80's America.—A Sundance 10/10 film: now online

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    Oscars Short Films 2025: A Voter's Guide

    With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers - Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi - step into the voters' shoes to narrow down the 45-title shortlists to their picks for the 15 short films that deserve to advance to the nominations round.

  • Oscar Films

    Oscar Short Films 2022: A Voter's Guide

    With nominee voting for the 2022 Academy Awards opening tomorrow (Thu 27th Jan), we highlight the five standout films from each short film category.

  • Festival

    Retro Short Films: Tribeca 2011 Film Festival

    Tribeca's (Online) Film Festival this year is quite extensive: 6 feature films, 9 in-competition shorts and these—9 "retro" shorts from the festival's past, all available for free! We'll cover this year's competition shorts in a series of forthcoming posts, but remember that Tribeca has their own spin on this online thing, so make sure to reserve a 24-hour screening window for each film in advance. These 9 retro shorts are a bit easier to manage, rather than signing up for specific 24-hour screening periods, they are available to view at any time between now and May 1st.

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    Dramedy Seth Epstein & Ben Epstein

    Something Like Loneliness

    Neighbours Mia and Dan bargain over their favourite sounds, captured in food storage containers.

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