Category: Lola Loves Shorts

  • Lola Loves Shorts: Sisters/Hermanas

    Lola Loves Shorts: Sisters/Hermanas

    Reviewing fine indie shorts in our Lola Loves Shorts series: In this pensive documentary collage on sisterhood, love and fate, director Maria Munro, through soothing narration, supported by elegant illustration softly blended with archival material, dives deep into her family lore, prompted by a lucid hunch amidst a global pandemic, and sets off to find…

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  • Lola Loves Shorts: 7 to 10

    Lola Loves Shorts: 7 to 10

    Reviewing fine indie shorts in our Lola Loves Shorts series: Writer-director Ana Pio delivers a raw, visceral, unflinching cinematic account of severe trauma in the aftermath of a sexual assault, meticulously constructing the isolated, distorted, fishbowl world of a young woman re-living it. It’s a difficult watch, yet a brilliantly assembled piece of filmmaking —…

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  • Lola Loves Shorts: Lost For Words

    Lola Loves Shorts: Lost For Words

    Reviewing fine indie shorts in our Lola Loves Shorts series: Our six minutes to pause for breath, a meditation on both the current and metaphysical state of isolation, inner worlds imploding with the unspoken, the deeply entrenched, the painfully trivial, Elcid Asaei delivering a poetically political, quietly witty technicolour essay on just how much we…

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