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Festival coverage

Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival

21 March – 25 March 2023

Italy's groundbreaking student-led short film festival is back for another year, with a strong selection of challenging and entertaining films from around the world.

The festival runs from 21 to 25 March.

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  • Anarchism At Two O'Clock
    Review preview for Anarchism At Two O'Clock

    There's real delicacy within the performances.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    In 1940s Spain, two young seamstress sisters have their lives changed during the Civil War. In resistance to the Franco dictatorship, the anarchists leave their house every day at two o'clock.
  • Swallow Flying To The South
    Review preview for Swallow Flying To The South

    A stunning work full of personality and dedication.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Spring 1976, 5-year-old Swallow is abandoned at a public boarding preschool in central Beijing. When the persimmons are ripe, Swallow masters how to cry, but doesn't forget how to fly.
  • Runaway
    Review preview for Runaway

    Sandro Baidarashvili's role is a strong one, the awkwardness of adolescence, look and glance and differing diffidence.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Ten-year-old Gigi lives with his family in the back of a small Georgian café that they own and run in a Moscow suburb. Gigi’s life takes a drastic turn when his father is pressured into sheltering a stranger who turns out to be a criminal on the run.
  • Questbound - Forbidden Ventures Of The Undead Soul
    Review preview for Questbound - Forbidden Ventures Of The Undead Soul

    It is archly self-aware, delightfully so, to the extent that its weaknesses become strengths because they serve as winks to knowing audiences.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    When a brave knight arrives at a castle to try to overthrow an aged, skeletal king, the king, mistaking his intentions, begins to flirt with him.
  • Fly High
    Review preview for Fly High

    A thing itself to wonder at.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    In a modern metropolitan city, amidst tall skyscrapers and busy streets, the unexpected sight of a man flying undisturbed in the sky disrupts the busy coming and going of people.
  • Bloody Gravel
    Review preview for Bloody Gravel

    I felt sick after watching it and watched it again.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Roya and Bashir are in love and because of the restrictions in Afghanistan they are forced to flee. They hope to enter Iran illegally. Roya is pregnant and the child was not planned. What happens at the border puts the people smugglers they have hired to an unexpected test.
  • 9 - 5
    Review preview for 9 - 5

    Tonally awkward, deliciously so, a film full of textures.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    An inexperienced copywriter must face the pressures of work and the expectations of his surroundings, which have an increasing impact on his sex life.