Reviews
Kisses And Bullets (Short) | BFI Flare 2026
Two Iranian women on opposite sides of the world are moved to protest, no matter the cost.
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Reviews
Krizalit (Short) | BFI Flare 2026
The need for connection in a big, unfriendly city drives two women to the edge in this universal, sad but hopeful short.
Reviews
COYOTES (Short) | BFI Flare 2026
A Palestinian woman in trouble, danger lurking in the darkness on the road to Ramallah, and a tire iron.
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Everything Between Us (Short) | BFI Flare 2026
A sweet short in which masculinity lingers in its absence as two girls grow closer, despite an avoidable gulf.
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Daria's Night Flowers (Short) | BFI Flare 2026
Something to interpret! Colours leak, run, and flash in this experimental archival collage drawn from old Iranian films.
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Abstraction Belongs To Us (Short) | BFI Flare 2026
Palestinian voices and perspectives echo on the capital streets of liberal democracies that ignore them.
SOPHISTICULTURE
The Hijra & Trans Dignity in the Short Doc, 'Body of Our Own' (+Transcript) | Sophisticulture at BFI Flare 2026
Sophisticulture is a podcast for people who care a lot about stories and storytellers, and can be found on all major Podcast platforms.
Film
If London Were Syria (Review) | Sweet and Short
Here at OBSCURAE, we've always championed short storytelling as the hunting ground for your next favourite filmmaker – and encouraged you not to skip the shorts programme! Welcome back to our Short film review series, Sweet and Short. Back in 2014, I saw a video from the charity Save
Film
A Mustard Seed - An Exploration of Grief and Faith | Sweet and Short
The new BBC backed short by Femi Oladigbolu conquers in fourteen minutes what many hour long films hope to.
Film
FLINT, a surrealist cycle | Sweet and Short
Out on iPlayer today, short film FLINT unfolds with patterns, connections, repetition, and surreal sequences [that] are becoming a signature in Khalid’s storytelling style. It’s what pulled me in while watching his first feature film “In Camera” and has me coming back to new projects.
Interview
Crafting a Dream: Director Naqqash Khalid discusses alchemising his new short film, FLINT
Suhaila dives into Khalid's process creating his award-winning short film, which is available on BBC iPlayer from February 27th -- mild spoilers ahead.
Film
I saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (Short Film Review) | BFI LFF 2025
In homage to the short, this review is written in a similar style to how the film is narrated. In 2019 I had decided that Music was evading me, and become too heavy a craft considering it had birthed my career as an Audio Engineer, and was now somewhat badly