Short Film

Night shift cleaners in Salt Lake City share their experiences and attitudes toward their essential work.   Nick Kush: While You Were Sleeping is a gentle reminder of the necessary, but mostly unappreciated work that so…

After an astronaut returns from her lunar mission to find that the public lost all interest in the moon, the stories of the astronaut, a film director, and a bear intersect.   Nick Kush: Whether it’s…

Identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice.   Nick Kush: I love little oddballs such as Freeze Frame, wherein it appears the creator set out to try something just to see what…

A teenage girl takes a step toward adulthood in contemporary Cairo.   Nick Kush: Farida Zahran shows plenty of restraint in telling this coming-of-age story; in the wrong hands, Youth could turn into a needlessly brutal…

As a new show is introduced at an erotic dance theater in Lahore, a sacrificial goat goes missing, a dreamy trans girl desperately tries to become a star, and a naive young boy falls in…

An elderly gay couple living off the grid in the Rocky Mountains finds a deeper love together when dementia threatens their independence. Nick Kush: I adore Bob & Dale’s sparing use of dialogue. The titular couple…

Warning: This article assumes you have seen the film If anything happens I love you. Please, go watch it on Netflix before reading. It’s only 12 minutes. 2020 has proven to be an incredible year…

By the time Agnès Varda was filming her second feature in the summer of 1961, the French New Wave was in full swing. Godard, Truffaut, Resnais, Rohmer, and more had all released their directorial debuts…

Mark Reiter stands in front of his love’s house as he practices what he will say to her mother.   Nick Kush: The grain of the film and the general rough-around-the-edges aesthetic to Is Your Daughter…

Quinn Armstrong’s Survival Skills has proved to be an audience favorite at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival. A parody of police training videos of the 1980s,  Armstrong’s film delves deeper into the outmoded teachings of these…

All Luke and his mom have are two garbage bags full of clothes, and two tickets out of town on the midnight Greyhound. Like he’s assembling a puzzle, Luke has to figure out the why…

Everyone knows the Spider-Man story: man gets bitten by spider, gets spider powers, becomes hero. But radioactive metamorphosis is a two-way street. So what about the spider who bit Peter Parker? Whatever became of him?…

Every day that passes in New York City, Jeff finds a way to get through it. Maybe he’s driven to find love. Maybe he’s driven to find a connection. Or maybe he’s just driven to…

A black boy learns contradicting lessons of manhood and masculinity on the day of his cousin’s funeral. Winner of 2020 Sundance Jury Award for U.S. Narrative Fiction.   Nick Kush: It’s the understatement of the year…

If You Ever Hurt My Daughter, I Swear to God I’ll Let Her Navigate Her Own Emotional Growth is a short film adapted from the hilarious and heartwarming humor essay written by Toronto-based comedian Sophie…

Welcome to Part 3 of this ongoing series about interesting short horror movies on YouTube. I find most of them via the channel of ALTER, unless otherwise noted. Let’s have a look, shall we? Read…

A high-powered female executive has an erotic rendezvous with a high-rise window-washer on opposite sides of her office window. Funny and poignant, Squeegee is an apt portrait of intimacy in the time of social distancing.…

Rod Goldman and Al Silverman are street performers who work the tourist scene of Times Square. Goldman gets no respect and Silverman is the first one to make sure of that.   Credits Directed By:…

The surviving crew of a damaged deep-space harvester have minutes to reach the emergency evacuation shuttle. A motion sensor is their only navigation tool leading them to safety while a creature in the shadows terrorizes…

When a young man drops out of college to care for his shut-in mother he too finds himself increasingly insulated from the outside world, something which conflicts with his growing forays into amateur astronomy. Credits…

These short films will be playing at the Denver Film Festival from October 31st to November 11th. Head over to the DFF’s website to purchase your tickets! The Denver Film Festival is here and the MovieBabble staff…

Young actors and actresses come and go all the time in the film industry — it’s just the nature of the business.  However, when you’re in my position as a critic, you occasionally come across…

In show business, there’s always those select few individuals that can get “it” done for you, and actress Jenny Paul is absolutely one of the best examples of such people.  With more than a decade…

Short film is often a proving ground for aspiring filmmakers to show their skills and move into other projects.  While the team behind Bound has already gone on to create other works of art, it’s always nice…

The beauty of the short film is in its capability to deliver profound statements of truth in bite-sized time increments. Director/writer Sean Meehan explores the concept of a business built upon paid rehearsals of difficult…