It's well executed, voiced, a sitcom segment has the hollow laughter of canned audiences down pat, but its targets are soft, safe, staid.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A quirky little beast.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Directors Martin Clark and Cara Connolly have an eye for detail.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A quirky short which displays good technique.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Full of vitality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The acting is fine but the plot lacks coherence.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Alles Wird Gut perfectly balances the concerns of its various characters and benefits from central performances that are simply stunning.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Uninspired.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Perez and Preston put in excellent performances

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A fascinating experiment.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The sound is amazing.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The technique keeps the children uppermost in our minds.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Montaldo has to some extent revealed the horror of the body as a thing itself.

~ Andrew Robertson -

As a pop video, this has intimations of inventiveness.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Perfectly contained, the contrast between human concerns and a cultural expression that's at once alien and untranslateable and immediately recognisable is stunning.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Lud Mônaco's camera moves fluidly through the apartment, which is just one of many on a crowded street, any number of which could have witnessed similar love and loss.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As an observational piece, it is very accomplished.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It was a bore, and, thankfully, it was short.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Powerful stuff.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The first part of this film is compelling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Shot in ultra-closeup on occasion, confined, claustrophobic.

~ Andrew Robertson -

If he achieves all this on a small budget, it's about time someone gave him a bigger one to play with.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It is funny, sharp, and like the best of the short film genre – all creds to director Jack Cooper Stimpson - pretty much every second works towards sketching a neat, clear picture of the issues with minimal lines.

~ Jane Fae -

In a festival selection that included a number of feminist works and perspectives this was a standout.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Although the film retains a tight focus on its specific story, Hadad is also offering glancing, but scathing, commentary about the patriarchy and authority more generally

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's the script and the visuals that really sing.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Jack teases apart aspects of a code in which most of us are fluent but which is almost all learned, cultural.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Michael J Bishop and Mukhtar Kaissi’s charismatic model work adds oodles of expression.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Jose Lillo's performance as Pedro is of chiselled weariness, whisper, mutter, movement.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Estomago has a twist outside the usual confines of the genre and is surprisingly moving as a result.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Escape Attempt has the style and quality one might expect of a blockbuster.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There is a rhythm to this, a catchy sense of improvisation.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Enough is a glorious bit of short filmmaking.

~ Andrew Robertson -

With its use of extreme close-ups and focus on odd details, its heavy investment in atmosphere and its absurdist asides, Encounters is a visually hypnotising film, engaged in its own experiments with shifting perspective.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The style allows for a sense of movement, which Hobbs often exploits for its witty details.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This Oscar-nominated short is a natural crowd pleaser.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Neither particularly original nor particularly satisfying.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Whilst Eeva’s reaction is extreme and very far from something you should try at home, it’s important in its acknowledgement of the rage that some people feel.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film slowly builds to an emotional crescendo, deftly hitting the right notes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An unrelentingly emotionally tense and harrowing experience from start to finish... one of the most accomplished short films I have seen this year.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Rebecca Culverhouse's film is somewhere in a the realm of tableaux vivants, of stereogrammatic .gif sets, of brief moments somewhere around the repeated rustle that Vine left.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Not without drama, not without charm, this is a touching little piece of rebellion and acceptance.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is a straightforward observational film, which captures the searchers as they go about their business

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A looping delight of metaphysicality and biology.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Checkoway's documentary quietly rages against the injustices perpetrated on the old.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's the silences that really give Echo its power.

~ Andrew Robertson -

An affecting piece of film-making.

~ Andrew Robertson -

With its considered compositions and emphasis upon real-life re-enactment, East Hastings Pharmacy has a vague resemblance to Soderbergh’s Bubble.

~ Michael Pattison -

Arguably the film is a slight affair in comparison to some other contemporaneous works, although perhaps some of the shortcomings seen by modern eyes are an unavoidable part of filmmaking in that era.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

Well paced and well directed - especially when you consider that it was made entirely by schoolkids.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There is a minimalism to this that compels.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The delight of the drama stems from the well crafted characters, while its heft hinges on toxicity that may not be immediately obvious.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A very effective piece of low budget storytelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

An extraordinarily thorough film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Writer/director Sandhya Suri - who has a documentary background - is keen to show that everyone plays their part in the prejudices and corruption of the legal system.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Once again, Guiraudie proves himself the master of setting up a mystery by the means of perfect script economy that functions strictly on “need to know” basis.

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

The director shows how it’s not just Julie’s tennis skills that have been groomed by the coach but large aspects of her life.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Cat’s viewpoint predominates, and Zilbalodis has an acute understanding of how the world looks from its point of view, of what catches its attention and how its body follows instinctively.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It’s ironic that a film about a family who have built a perfect facsimile of a life for themselves should feel so overly constructed itself

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Lin and Sun studiously maintain the enigma around Shuo so that we are left guessing as to whether he’s just a disadvantaged teen trying to make his way in the world or a cuckoo in the nest.

~ Amber Wilkinson -