Short of the Week

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Short of the WeekCinemaGatorville Serving on a film festival jury is an incredibly rewarding experience. Not only are you generally well looked after by the event team, but you also get the opportunity to discuss short films with…

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Short of the WeekCinemaWe Were Here Eight years ago, New Years Eve premiered on Short of the Week. Today, we’re delighted to welcome filmmaker Pranav Bhasin back with his latest short, We Were Here , a frontrunner in the Best Live…

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Short of the WeekCinemaPenny, Here Documentary, as a form, is widely acknowledged to be in trouble . An individual review is a poor place for a thought piece; still, briefly, there is a sense that commercial incentives in the…

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Short of the WeekCinemaFive Questions with Nightmare Short Winner Daler Murzagali With Zar , Daler Murzagali’s winner of our inaugural Nightmare Shorts competition, now available to watch on Short of the Week, we thought it was only right to share a little more about the film and…

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Short of the WeekCinemaZar Running our first-ever horror competition, Nightmare Shorts , we knew we’d need some help when it came to picking a winner.

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Short of the WeekCinemaNightmare Shorts 2026: Winner + Finalists With Halloween just hours away, today feels like the perfect time to announce the winner and two finalists of our inaugural Nightmare Shorts competition .

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Short of the WeekCinemaPen Mari T he film opens on a horse’s skull! It’s right there in the logline, but it still produces quite an effect.

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Short of the WeekCinemaThe Dysphoria What are you willing to sacrifice to become yourself? Time? Money? Someone you love? All of the above?

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Short of the WeekCinemaThe Littles The Littles caught our eye 5 months ago when it premiered on YouTube to no small measure of acclaim—the film raced to 3M views and, at the peak of YouTube-to-Hollywood discourse spurred by the…

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Short of the WeekCinemaDon’t Be Afraid When it comes to real-life horrors, it’s hard to imagine anything more devastating than the loss of a child.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo