Review: Dustin (2020)
Clubbing, after-partying and jealousy issues stand in the centre of Naila Guiguet’s short film Dustin that is already becoming a staple diet of many major film festivals.
October 2020
Review: Fish Bowl (2020)
Beautifully lensed by the Ishimwe Karemangingo Ibrahim and swiftly edited by Tuyizere Nkinzingabo Jean Pierre, with the traditionally-flavoured production design by Birara Myriam, Fish Bowl is a beautiful film, while also being an emotional experience for its gentle portrait of silent grief.
Programme overview: Uppsala National Competition 3
Discrimination of various types is the common topic for the third batch of films in the national competition at Uppsala International Film Festival.
Review: To Discharge (2019)
Ingrid has been in an out of mental wards recently and she does not buy a thing, she participates in half-hearted or ironic way, often making fun of the therapist, August and the rest of the participants.
Review: Land of the Free (2020)
Ullgren, working on his own script, does the right thing to keep the screen split until the end and the anti-climactic epilogue of the situation, using a simple, yet elegant-looking device in order to play with the viewers’ perspective.
Programme overview: Connected
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.
Review: Silver or Lead (2020)
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.
Review: Ballast (2020)
The unnamed boy (Emilian Bech-Aronsen, perfectly fitting the role) is bored stiff on a family gathering where nobody pays any attention to him. So he goes looking for trouble…
Review: Clean With Me (After Dark) (2020)
Buckle up for a devastating short documentary by Gabrielle Stemmer called Clean With Me (After Dark) that is currently playing at Uppsala International Short Film Festival ironically or not in the slot titled Free Time.
