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Art & Fashion, Premiere

M O N O – Y

Director Enrico Poli reprises his partnership with Designer Antonio Labroca for a fashion film which conveys its collection's poetic feeling of liberation.

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Film Festival, Live Action

Playground

Based on a heinous true life story Bartosz Kowalski's debut feature uncompromisingly explores the link between troubled upbringings and child psychopathy.

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Animation, Music Video

Me And My Drummer: Grown Up Shape

Chris Luehning pursues the unsatisfiable artistic drive to create and strive for perfection in his psychedelic music video for Me And My Drummer.

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Documentary, Film Festival

Jewel’s Catch One

C.Fitz's new documentary focuses on a real life hero, a women who for over 40 years supported the LGBT and black community from her nightclub, Catch One.

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Music Video

Rituals of Mine: Ride or Die

Ze'ev Waismann presents the streets of Oakland in all their diverse glory in his high speed photodocumentation music video for Rituals of Mine.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN341: The Day Will Come – Jesper W Nielsen

Jesper W Nielsen delivers a painfully honest depiction of a Danish orphanage where two brothers try to escape the wrath of their headmaster’s tyranny.

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Live Action

The Fear of Breathing in the Void

Playing out across two parallel unfolding narratives, Anthony Capristo's existential new short film seeks to achieve catharsis from past hurts.

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Art & Fashion

Winter Eclipse

Pablo Maestres' new fashion film for Delpozo's Autumn/Winter collection brings the label's exquisite garments to life in a surreal, immersive fantasy.

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN340: On Call – Alice Diop

Alice Diop's latest documentary seeks to put names and faces to the asylum seekers suffering a life of loneliness and fear as they live in exile in Paris.

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Documentary

Through The Dust

Jonah Markowitz and Brandon Lavoie's heartfelt doc looks at the lives of 9/11 first responders and how that tragic day continues to shape their existence.

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Film Festival, Live Action

A Date for Mad Mary

Darren Thornton kicks off our LFF coverage with his realistic exploration of the difficulties of reintegrating into life on the outside after prison.

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Live Action

Running Eagle

Konrad Tho Fiedler heads into the frozen climes of the Blackfeet Nation reservation for the unblinking story of a desperate American Indian girl on the run.

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