Oscar-nominated Animated Shorts Review: Humour and Heartache
If Anything Happens, I Love You gets this writer's vote among the nominees.
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Inside Out 2020: Warm Blood Shorts Review
If anyone knows the power of a monster in the closet, it’s the gays.
Watch Oscar Shorts ‘Hair Love’, ‘Kitbull’ and ‘Sister’
Don't let the short films stump you on Oscar night - watch some of them here!
TIFF 2019: 7 Must-See Shorts at the Toronto International Film Festival
Feature films and gala premieres tend to hog the spotlight at film festivals like TIFF, but if you're looking to expand your cinematic horizons here are seven extraordinary short films worth checking out!
Shorts for The Shortest Day
In honour of the shortest day of the year, the NFB has put together three packages of short films to commemorate the occasion!
TIFF 2014: Short Cuts Canada Program 6 Reviews
The shorts that make up Program 6 all address some kind of exploration. Exploration of other planets, other dimensions, or even just different ways of living. It’s a broad theme that brings with it the best and the worst of the Short Cuts Canada programs. A standout film, not just in this program but in […]
TIFF Short Cuts Canada International Program 5 Review
Featuring gorgeous backdrops and exquisitely framed cityscapes, the final program in the Short Cuts International series is filled with cinematic treats of film and animation, and also includes a unique use of 3D. The 3D technique is used by director Matthu Placek in his sprawling crane shot examination of the then abandoned future home of […]
TIFF 2014: Short Cuts International Program 4 Reviews
The fourth program of TIFF’s International Short Cuts programming brings a focus on some individual narratives that use colorful and inventive techniques to examine such age old motivations as vengeance, humor and isolation. (Null) is a hyper stylized look at the day and evening of a female, all taken from the narrow focus of a […]
TIFF 2014: Short Cuts Canada Program 5 Reviews
Short Cuts Canada Programme 5 seems to be where they put all the shorts that would show in front of the Midnight Madness features if TIFF programmed them that way. These are the genre shorts, the crude comedies, and the freaky deaky. The little bit of animated goodness that is Sol Friendman’s Day 40 posits what it […]
TIFF 2014: Short Cuts Canada Program 4 Review
If there’s a unifying theme in programme 4, it’s the dichotomy of human experience. You can have the same job as somebody, the same parents, or even be in love with someone, and yet still experience the world in a completely different way. In Broken Face, a war veteran is “reintegrated into society” with a job […]
TIFF 2014: Wavelengths 4: Night Noon Reviews
In fourth and final program of the Wavelengths short films series, entitled Night Noon, we enter the psyche and delve deep into the human experience. We begin with Malena Szlam’s Lunar Almanac, a four minute piece compiled together from still photographs of the moon over various nights. The moon becomes moons as the photographs are […]
TIFF 2014: Wavelengths 3: Tales Told Review
In Wavelengths Program 3, Tales Told, we deal with the structure of narratives, and observe as they are manipulated and conveyed, with varying results. Yuri Ancarani’s San Siro is filmed in and around the football stadium in Milan of the same name. We watch as preparations are made before the match- the tedious, arcane details […]
TIFF 2014: Wavelengths Shorts Program 2: Something in the Atmosphere
In Wavelengths shorts program 2, Something in the Atmosphere, we have strange encounters with both the past and present through a series of jarring, evocative and visually arresting films. Toronto artist Jean-Paul Kelly channels Truman Capote’s desire in his short film The Innocents. The focus is a shot-by-shot re-enactment of a scene from With Love […]
TIFF 2014: Short Cuts International Program 3 Review
The third program of TIFF’s Short Cuts International focuses on the everyday decisions and words we use and how the impact of those decisions and dialogue, or lack of them, can be just a world shaking as the ones we agonize over. In The Tricycle Thief director Maxim Bessmertnyi takes us to Macau and into […]
TIFF 2014: Short Cuts International Program 2 Review
The second program in the Short Cuts International program features films that revolve around desire and the lengths some will go to fulfil them, from looks at forbidden love to the quest for an elusive ice cream cone. Kaveh Ebrahimpour’s debut short from Iran, A Ceremony for a Friend drops us in the middle of […]
