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MarBelle has a strange compulsion to watch as many films as he can get his hands on and find jobs that give him a legitimate excuse to drill filmmakers about their work. Directors Notes is the multi-decade incarnation of this disorder and remains so much cheaper than film school.

Asides, Live Action

Locked in

Gioacchino Petronicce’s 'Locked in' sees a man barred from enjoying the tantalising snacks of a nearby vending machine by absent minded circumstance.

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Live Action

A High School Girl Faces Down the Terror of Social Anxiety in Danielle Kampf’s NYU Grad Short ‘Presentation’

Director Danielle Kampf takes DN behind the scenes of her exploration of a sophomore student's crippling social anxiety in NYU thesis short 'Presentation'.

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Animation, Asides

Spook Train: Curtains

Claysplotation master Lee Hardcastle’s 'Spook Train' horror series rolls into town with its first gore-filled episode, the innocuously titled 'Curtains'.

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Animation, Asides

Jon Hopkins: Feel First Life

A lone figure traverses a post-apocalyptic Earth in search of signs of renewal in Elliot Dear’s exquisite stop-motion music video 'Feel First Life'.

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Animation, Asides

Jeom

A sequel to his outstanding 2012 '38-39°C', Kangmin Kim returns with 'Jeom', an impressive contemplation on the power of heredity in shaping who we are.

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Asides, Live Action

Red

The freeing affirmation of a teen’s cross-dressing comfort is disrupted when they inadvertently bump into their father in Yuchao Feng’s 'Red'.

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Asides, Music Video

La Famille Ouellette: Kaatunga

Dark family secrets are revealed as a young soldier abandons his duty to set out on the long, arduous road home in Philippe Grenier’s 'Kaatunga'.

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Asides, Live Action

Fauve

A childhood game of one-upmanship between two friends escalates out of their control in Jeremy Comte’s Sundance winning short 'Fauve'.

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Documentary, Music Video

Meet the 960-Pound Elvis Impersonator Who Believes He’s the King’s Secret Love Child in Paul Stone’s ‘Big Elvis’

Paul Stone delves into the incredible life of a 960-pound Elvis impersonator who is convinced he’s the secret love child of the King in 'Big Elvis'.

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Animation, Asides

Link

Robert Löbel makes any bad hair day problems you may have experienced pale into insignificance with the conjoined follicle challenges of new short 'Link'.

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Live Action

A $10 Palm Reading Leads a Woman to Gamble on a Cure for Her Existential Crisis in Dana Sorman’s

DN speaks to Dana Sorman about the twists and turns of transforming a traumatic personal experience into proof-of-concept short 'Psychic'.

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Asides, Music Video

Hazey Eyes: Scars (Feat. Yoke Lore)

A carefree romance reveals itself to be a darker story of sacrifice within an unbalanced relationship in Simon Dymond's 'Scars' promo for Hazey Eyes.

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