Marina D. Richter

Right at the beginning of her intimate family portrait Superheroes Without Superpowers the Italian director Beatrice Baldacci contemplates about what makes a person unique

In his third short film Kingdom, Come, Sean Robert Dunn plunges in the realm of disturbing human drives that can destroy the lives of many people with one blow.

Procreating is all in some societies, and the man’s ability to have children is a proof of his unshakeable masculinity. Even a bare possibility that a man might be sterile is practically absent from people’s minds,

Roqaia is traumatized by the suicide attack, but that is something that the immediate environment refuses to acknowledge

Two young lovers wake up one morning after a night involving a big spliff, and Sung-min (James Chung) immediately starts looking for the proof they had protected sex.

The main character of Jamie Helmer’s & Michael Leonard’s film The Diver, Callan (Nicholas Denton) isn’t someone you’d like to befriend and even less to have as an enemy.

“The Tears Thing” is a story sharp as a knife, or rather – painful as a bullet piercing human flash, and it was one of the contenders of the Orizzonti shorts competition at the Venice International Film festival.