Anna Samo dedicates her eight short animation Conversations With A Whale to all her friends “who are dancing with their demons and talking to their whales”. The subject of the film deals, after all, with a shared trauma they are all going through upon finishing their art projects. The happiness one is overwhelmed with once […]
The film is dedicated to every 8th Georgian who has been forcibly displaced from their home during many, many conflicts in the country’s recent history.
The first slot of the international competition of Uppsala Short Film Festival showcases a strong selection of films that explore the fragility of human existence within family and/ or society.
Granados slips into the role of a macho rapper who’s sporting golden chains and a guilded gun, while in the background different scenes of violence take place.
When two best friends undress at one point in front of everyone to go for a swim in the lake, Olle is not aware of the impact his little performance will leave on one of the guests.
The love story in Simmer is painted in believable colours, with only few moments of actual physical closeness including a heart-racing sex scene that doesn’t become completely explicit, but grows into a declaration of true love.
The film is interesting in terms of different techniques and expression forms coming together, but it doesn’t take enough of emotional distance from its main character.
The directorial duo André Rodrigues & João Pais da Silva do what they can with the script written by Tiago Laranjo that borrows from many genre tropes without having developed them to the maximum, and with a very slim budget
Plundering as an act of everything that church officially stands against, but that it had employed for centuries to accumulate its own wealth, turns into a metaphor of sorts.
