You might think to know what an igloo is until you’ve seen the short psycho-thriller I’ll End Up In Jail by the Canadian director Alexandre Dostie, freshly screened at the Sundance Film Festival and currently showing in Clermont-Ferrand.
That the oppressed can be oppressors in specific life situations is a reality illustrated in Zamo Mkhwanazi’s short film Sadla that was screened in the World Narrative Shorts Competition at the Sundance Film Festival
With her latest short “The Wedding Cake”, Monica Mazzitelli won the international short film competition at the RVK feminist Film Festival, which kicked off in January this year.
We literally slide into the nightmare of a broken young man called Danny (Rik Hautvast) through a marine blue waterslide that returns to his dreams night after night.
Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir studied directing and script writing at the Icelandic Film School, and has gathered experience in the film production. With her debut short film Islandia, a very personal take on her own traumatic experience, she steered controversy in her home country by openly addressing the sensitive topic of rape…
The winner of the national short film competition at the RVK Feminist Film Festival is the film that competed two years ago in Reykjavik at Shortfish, and that had already scooped the prize for the Best Film
Since our first chapter about this programme ended by the review of a musical biopic specific for one country (Norway), we begin this one with a take on another geo-specific film.
Sidebar programmes at the Uppsala International Short Film festival traditionally bring a surprise or two in their focus on authors, genres and trends that deserve a special place in the film history.
It felt necessary to split the Jamaica Now! Program overview in two parts. The program consisting of seven short presented at the 38th Uppsala International Short Film festival, has shown two main easy to tell apart thematic focuses.
