Best Scottish Short Award winner to receive The Tarkovski Grant from 2026 onwards The Tarkovski Grant is proud to announce a new collaboration with the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF), one of the United Kingdom's leading celebrations of LGBTQIA+ cinema. Beginning with the festival's 2026 edition, the recipient of the Best Scottish Short Award will also receive The Tarkovski Grant, providing the winning filmmaker with an international submission fee waiver p

Few genres externalize our private fears as effectively as psychological horror. In Kendra Monet's debut narrative short, ATTACHED, the monsters are not supernatural—they are the anxieties of surviving your twenties while chasing impossible dreams. Set in Harlem, ATTACHED follows Draya, a struggling actress whose unresolved past and increasingly precarious present force her to confront her need for control. Rejection, financial instability, fractured relationships, and the qu

Winner of the Best Short Film Award to receive The Tarkovski Grant during WIFF's landmark 20th edition The Tarkovski Grant is proud to welcome the Waterford International Film Festival (WIFF) as the first film festival in Ireland to present The Tarkovski Grant. Beginning with the festival's 2026 edition, the winner of WIFF's Best Short Film Award will also receive the international submission fee waiver package, helping them continue the festival journey of their work through

Seven films recognized across feature, short, U.S., experimental, extremely short, New England and Connecting Cultures categories BOSTON — Doc.Boston has announced the award winners of its sixth edition, which concluded this past weekend after four screenings of documentary cinema. The 2026 official selection brought together 21 films from around the world, showcasing urgent, intimate and formally adventurous approaches to nonfiction storytelling. “This past weekend reminded

The 11th Boston Short Film Festival concluded last Friday after four days of celebrating outstanding short-form cinema at the Capitol Theatre. From Tuesday through Friday, audiences enjoyed a carefully curated program of 39 short films from around the world, reaffirming the festival's commitment to championing bold voices and the art of short filmmaking. Festival manager and host Maarten Cornelis The winning films reflect the remarkable breadth of contemporary cinema. Togethe

In When the Wind Blows, filmmaker Ziqing “Gigi” Yang transforms grief into a strange and tactile science-fiction landscape. The film follows Birdy, an awkward amateur scientist whose fragile experiment pulls her into a dimension that feels both uncanny and intimately familiar. As she moves deeper into this inner world, she is forced to confront the loss she has kept buried for years. Rather than presenting grief as a problem to be solved, Yang allows it to exist as sensation,

The Lee Strasberg Film Festival (LSFF) has unveiled an impressive jury for its milestone 10th edition, led by Academy Award-winning actor Al Pacino. The festival, taking place 13–15 November 2026 at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in West Hollywood, will once again celebrate outstanding independent filmmaking and authentic screen performances inspired by the Method acting tradition. Pacino's appointment carries special significance. A longtime friend and protégé of

The Somerville International Film Festival returned this past weekend, showcasing an eclectic selection of independent films from the United States and around the world or as Boston Magazine called it “fresh cinematic visions”. Dedicated to inspiring, motivating, and recognizing emerging talent, the festival was held in the vibrant Davis Square neighborhood at The Rockwell. Selected from a multitude of entries, this year's official lineup included 18 local and international f

In Skuzland & Shygirl – FREAK is WILD, director Annika White and co-director Carl Knight transform a small Harlem apartment into a world without stable boundaries. Hyper-sensual performances move through mirrored rooms, tactile interiors, grotesque humor, and layered digital spaces, creating a visual universe where the freakish and the glamorous are not opposites, but part of the same liberated vocabulary. The official music video for Skuzland and Shygirl’s collaboration trac