Indie Shorts Mag
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Indie Shorts Mag caters to filmmakers and cinephiles alike as a medium to connect over their common passion beyond the confines of any language. Besides hosting reviews, interviews, tutorials, and news related to short films, indie films, foreign-language films & festivals; they also work around the web series and music videos circuit.
Indie Shorts Mag
2d ago
Daniel Everitt-Lock’s Conscript is a 13-minute drama about the night before a young man leaves for his conscription and is doomed. With the ghost of nuclear war embedded into his family, Alex’s last evening at home becomes a little break in time that is like nothing before or after that day. The draft brings old ..read more
Indie Shorts Mag
2d ago
Kevin Cate’s LeTZ PLaY A gaME is a horror 101 class fit into a tight 4-minute runtime. Following a teenage girl at a fair as texts from an unknown number begin to terrorise her, the film is surprisingly well designed and edited into a gripping narrative, so that you are both worried for the protagonist ..read more
Indie Shorts Mag
2d ago
Samuel Ladouceur’s 9-minute Stay with Me, written by Yanatha Desouvre, is a tragedy spun with autobiographical elements. Spanning a fateful lunch between a mother and son, the film tries to show the sheer weight of the bad coincidence of losing loved ones in the same way over and over. Set in Haiti, shot in Little ..read more
Indie Shorts Mag
1w ago
At 14:42-minutes, director Moe Najati’s Ensouled is a tightly-wound, deeply unsettling short that explores the themes of metaphysics, AI and humanity. In the numerous sci-fi films out there, what sets Ensouled apart is its ability to remain ambiguous and yet sharp enough to elicit questions amongst its viewers. What defines a human life? Can AI offer better solutions to ..read more
Indie Shorts Mag
1w ago
Kit Wilson’s Missing Hearts is a sci-fi revamping of The Wizard of Oz, or at least some elements of it. Meaning, a young woman (an astronaut) lands up in a strange land (a planet untouched for the last 200 years) after a storm (engine meltdown) and befriends a tinman (a vintage robot left to languish ..read more
Indie Shorts Mag
1w ago
Program provides up to $150,000 to support up-and-coming filmmakers and drive a new generation of talent. Vimeo, renowned for its innovative video platform for creators and enterprises, has announced the launch of the first-ever “Vimeo Short Film Grant presented by Nikon | RED.” This pioneering initiative aims to empower emerging filmmakers by providing significant funding ..read more
Indie Shorts Mag
2w ago
Kim A. Snyder’s 37-minute Death by Numbers, written by and about Sam Fuentes, a Parkland survivor emphasises the trauma as well as its source without ever feeling like a true crime documentary. It is not interested in digging up the shooter’s profile as if there is some secret mystery to it all. Hatred is banal ..read more
Indie Shorts Mag
2w ago
At Berlinale, Ethan Hawke called all artistic effort a compassion engine. He must have had Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani’s In the Shadow of the Cypress in mind. It is a film that closes its impassioned fingers around your aorta and strums feeling right into your bones. The story of a father, daughter, and trauma ..read more
Indie Shorts Mag
3w ago
Jay Liu’s Anywhere the Wind Blows overlaps the political with the personal to illustrate that, yes, the personal is as political as the political is personal. As we follow an evening in the life of a HongKonger in the US haunted by the memory of home, we begin to see the overlaps within the collapsing ..read more
Indie Shorts Mag
1M ago
In truth, Nebojsa Slijepcevic’s The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Croatian: Covjek koji nije mogao sutjeti) is—and to great effect—more about the terrible effect he has on the man who could not speak up. An incredibly tense drama whether or not you are familiar with the Štrpci massacre thirty-two years ago, it uses its ..read more