Festivals
All The Empty Rooms | TIFF50
I cried for the entirety of this short, and I hope you do the same
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Film
Blue Moon, Eleanor the Great, If I had Legs I’d Kick You | TIFF50 Round-up
Catch up on Day 1’s reviews from our team on the ground at TIFF50
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Shorts Program 01 Highlights @ TIFF 2025
Jazz Infernal First and foremost, let me get it out of the way that I just adore jazz music, so this short always had a bit of a bias in my books. Nevertheless! Bias put aside, this is still an undoubtedly cinematic jazz journey (giving "Whiplash" during certain
Festivals
Best of Raindance Film Festival 2025
We crown the best of the fest, as decided by...well...us!
Festivals
Shorts Programme: LGBTQIA+ 2 - HIGHLIGHTS | OBSCURAE @ Raindance 2025
Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood-Sucking Freak, Hands On, A Friend of Dorothy, Big Bass
Festivals
Shorts Programme: Animation | OBSCURAE @ Raindance 2025
Birth Controlled, Percebes, Larval, Have I Swallowed Your Dreams, There Will Be No Other End
Film
Student Showcase HIGHLIGHTS | OBSCURAE @ Raindance 2025
The filmmakers of the future, in their element (and some familiar names too!)
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Sweet and Short: Marrow (Dir. Jay T. Grimes)
What makes 'Marrow' stand out is not just its subject matter (fear of ageing is rarely portrayed with this kind of visceral immediacy or violence) but its style.
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Sweet and Short: Pizzaslice (Dir. Carl Johan Holmboe Dahl)
'Pizzaslice' is an excellent piece for an easy character study with a slight plot twist. It’ll make you feel pity and make you smile. It is vulnerable and genuine. It is just perfectly everything I enjoy about film.
Festivals
B-Reel: All Hits, No Misses
In a film festival first, Umnia is blown away by not one, not two, but ALL the shorts in a given programme. Someone, write this down!
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Sweet and Short: Bricked (Dir. Will Stepney)
Directed with restraint and urgency, 'Bricked' is visually engaging and emotionally unnerving.
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ATTAGIRL! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
In what can only be described as the most colourful, explosive and beautifully kitchy Short I have had the pleasure to see this year, Klimovski rampages.