Arguably the film is a slight affair in comparison to some other contemporaneous works, although perhaps some of the shortcomings seen by modern eyes are an unavoidable part of filmmaking in that era.
Documentary detailing the establishment of a co-operative society by unemployed miners in Wales.
Checkoway's documentary quietly rages against the injustices perpetrated on the old.
Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their love story is disrupted by a family feud that threatens to tear the couple apart.
If you repeat the word 'fly' for long enough it sounds like you are saying 'life'. This is of no help to Peter. His answers lie in the brain of the beetle.
Rebecca Culverhouse's film is somewhere in a the realm of tableaux vivants, of stereogrammatic .gif sets, of brief moments somewhere around the repeated rustle that Vine left.
An experimental horror short that explores the link between social media, isolation and eating disorders.
Whilst Eeva’s reaction is extreme and very far from something you should try at home, it’s important in its acknowledgement of the rage that some people feel.
It's a sad day in Eva's life. The rain is pouring down at her husband's funeral. A woodpecker delivering a message code on the coffin is killed. There is a lot of crying, too much wine, and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps.
Endless Cookie is not like anything else and yet it is very much like life.
Exploring the complex bond between two half brothers - one Indigenous, one white - traveling from the present in isolated Shamattawa to bustling 1980s Toronto.
Escape Attempt has the style and quality one might expect of a blockbuster.
Honeymooners are persuaded to give a ride to a stranger who wants to be dropped off on an uninhabited planet, but they're not prepared for what they find there.
With so much going on the only shame is that at this length the pirouettes in various directions are so brief, giving us a taste for ideas that are begging to be dug into further.
Although the film retains a tight focus on its specific story, Hadad is also offering glancing, but scathing, commentary about the patriarchy and authority more generally
A girl takes an illicit package into a school exam room.
In a festival selection that included a number of feminist works and perspectives this was a standout.
A Nigerian toilet attendant, desperate for survival, forced to manipulate unsuspecting women for men watching from behind a two-way mirror in a Glasgow club.
It is funny, sharp, and like the best of the short film genre – all creds to director Jack Cooper Stimpson - pretty much every second works towards sketching a neat, clear picture of the issues with minimal lines.
A political satire about climate change. Focused on the protest group Extinction Rebellion.
The contrast between modern facilities and regressive culture makes a wider point, whilst the strangeness of living with it is reflected in the final scene.
A young Russian artist makes an anti-war statement by swapping food labels with pacifist messages in a Moscow supermarket, leading to her arrest and the threat of a 10-year prison sentence.
Lud Mônaco's camera moves fluidly through the apartment, which is just one of many on a crowded street, any number of which could have witnessed similar love and loss.
Two women clean out their apartment and say goodbye to the life they shared.
Perfectly contained, the contrast between human concerns and a cultural expression that's at once alien and untranslateable and immediately recognisable is stunning.
The women of a small village wake up one day to discover that their husbands have turned into raging pigs.
