Short Film & Documentary Review by Indie Shorts Mag

While being pursued by a police officer, a young boy struggles with his decisions for the baby in his care and how to help his sick mother.

An indecisive actress must decide between staying with her long-distance boyfriend or committing herself to a new flame.

When his photographer fiancé is hired for a new gig by an ex-flame, an insecure writer descends into chaos.

On his 30th birthday, Em is confronted by his expectations of life and finds a moment of gratitude.

In a parent-teacher meeting at an orderly girls’ school in Singapore, a teacher empathises with a parent’s account of her stress-filled domestic existence as a long-suffering mother to a troubled teenager. But in a system where the roles of parent and child, teacher and student, have to be upheld, and upon which generalised projections easily occur, how true to character is a person when they inhabit the role they’re made to play?

Tasked with promoting a tech company’s VR innovations, a young scientist risks her job when she decides to use her creations to faithfully serve a grief-stricken family - rather than follow the company’s wish to stage a publicity stunt.

When a disenchanted mermaid-for-hire is mistaken for a real mermaid, she plays along to disastrous consequences.

A virgin in his twenties makes a pact with his platonic girlfriend for her to take his virginity if he doesn't lose it by his next birthday. Things get more complicated when he "gets lucky" but has a hard time telling her.

Nearly 15 years after his last featured performance, Mark Anthony Thomas revisits his poetic past with the documentary short film “Folded Whispers” at the historic Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood.

Thomas performs 17 new original poems on issues of identity, urbanism, love, loss, race and the pandemic. The film is produced by Built Different and described as deeply personal, reflective, and "a love letter to the Kelly Strayhorn Theater," which is a home for Black and queer artists.

A dark domestic horror drama about the ties that bind and the ties that really bind.