short film
Albert Shin's latest film explores the high suicide rates in South Korea by focusing on human connections and the beauty of life.
TIFF 2021: DEFUND Review
DEFUND uses levity to reclaim the true meaning of the "Defund the Police" movement.
Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts Review: The Present for the Win!
The Present gets our critics vote among the Oscar nominees.
Sundance 2021: Black Bodies Review
Director Kelly Fyffe-Marshall's short is a brief but potent statement on contemporary race relations.
Inside Out 2020: Warm Blood Shorts Review
If anyone knows the power of a monster in the closet, it’s the gays.
NYFF Dispatch II: The Human Voice Review
A new Pedro Almodóvar film is always cause for celebration. Even a short one, especially one that so carefully harkens back and deepens, in turn, the Spanish director’s longstanding fascinations. The Human Voice, starring Tilda Swinton and “freely based” on Jean Cocteau’s 1928 play by the same name, is pure Almodóvar. It’s both a potent […]
The Shawl Review: Sundance 2020
Sara Keiner's film is a tale of love and Stevie Nicks.
The Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films Are Top Shelf
Includes links to three of the nominees!
TADFF 2019: Alaska Review
Social anxiety makes for a macabre and hilarious combo in the TADFF 2019 short Alaska.
TADFF 2019: Best Friends Forever Review
Teenage girls are pretty scary in the TADFF short film Best Friends Forever.
TIFF 2019: The Physics of Sorrow Review
TIFF 2019: The Physics of Sorrow Review
TIFF 2019: The Depths Review
Thanks to Highball.TV for sponsoring ThatShelf’s 2019 TIFF Coverage! It starts with the image of Justine (Geneviève Boivin-Roussy) crying as she cleans out the closet of her recently deceased mother. And for a time, Ariane Louis-Seize’s drama feels like it will play out as an assured, well-observed story of a daughter dealing with losing her […]
TIFF 2019: And then the Bear Review
TIFF 2019: And then the Bear Review
TIFF 2019: No Crying at the Dinner Table Review
TIFF 2019: No Crying at the Dinner Table Review
TIFF 2019: Hot Flash Review
TIFF 2019: Hot Flash Review