Whether its about life and death emergencies, or the world’s loudest burp, short documentaries help us meet interesting people and discover things about our world and perhaps ourselves. Here are some of the short docs playing at HollyShorts Film Festival. A New...
Among the films showing at HollyShorts Film Festival are those that seek to have a social impact. Here are some that speak in differing ways about social issues. Habibi (16 minutes), directed by Alexey Evstigneev, is a deception based in desperation. In some Muslim...
There are many options to choose from at HollyShorts Film Festival. Today I decided to sample some of the crime and sci-fi genres. Tadji (19 minutes), directed by Mahdi Borjian, is about a husband-wife relationship more than about crime itself. Tadji, is the factory...
Here is another round of animated shorts from HollyShorts Film Festival. In this group I draw from various screening blocks, one for kids animation and some for more adult audiences. They (8 minutes), directed by Renée Zellweger, wonders if we can get along. The main...
Here are more of the documentaries showing at HollyShorts Film Festival. She Chose War (26 minutes), directed by Sarah Moshman, lets us meet a woman in war. Nelli Chorba was studying acting when Russia invaded Ukraine. She volunteered for the army and is now part of a...
Casey Carter’s documentary To Use a Mountain is an attempt to help us understand a complex issue, but ends up being too narrowly focused to bring light. It deals with the search to find a place for the US to store its growing pile of nuclear waste. To be sure, this is...
Watching various shorts at HollyShorts Film Festival can give you a wide range of experience in just a short time. There may be surprises. There may be emotion. There may be social commentary. It is all served up in a smorgasbord of stories. Selah (22 minutes),...
It’s time to start in on some of the animated fare at HollyShorts Film Festival. HollyShorts is an Oscar-qualifying festival, so award winners here can be considered for Academy Awards. I’m never surprised when the nominations come out that I’ve seen a few already....
Maybe it’s just me, but I think there is often a fine line between dark comedies and romcoms. So I sampled HollyShorts Film Festival sections of each and will report here and see if you can tell which is which. It’s OK, Johnny (7 minutes), directed by Deniz Akyurek,...