Snigdha Kapoor’s HOLY CURSE is a cinematic cry, furious, fragile, and luminous. It’s the kind of short film that grips you by the throat from its first frame and doesn’t let go until long after the credits fade. Here is a filmmaker unafraid to confront the invisible violence of conformity, and in doing so, she delivers a…
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Inside, The Valley Sings’: One of the Most Innovative Documentary’s of the Year
In the modest runtime of his animated short Inside, The Valley Sings, director Nathan Fagan achieves something rare: a film that is both aesthetically refined and emotionally unflinching. It begins and largely remains on quiet terms, as we hear the voices of three people who spent extended periods in solitary confinement. There are no aesthetic shocks, no…
Grief, Ritual, and Revelation in THREE KEENINGS
It’s not often a short film comes along that feels both classically grounded and urgently modern, but Three Keenings, from Northern Irish filmmaker Oliver McGoldrick, manages to be exactly that. From its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival to its Oscar®-qualifying win at the Galway Film Fleadh, the film has quietly and…
