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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

The Monster

Things get bloody in Bob Pipe’s comedy/horror The Monster when a genteel Hammer-era monster falls for his leading lady on the set of a modern day slasher.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Blue, Blue

Sunita Mani dances up a storm to the electro sounds of COLLEGE in Anu Valia’s playful trip through anger, 'Blue, Blue'.

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Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action

Watch #FiveFilms4Freedom – A Global Digital LGBTQ+ Online Film Festival

The British Council and BFI Flare Festival continue their global, digital LGBTQ+ online film festival #FiveFilms4Freedom.

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Asides, Music Video

Maud Geffray: Ice Teens

A cohort of compliant girls at an isolated boarding school are indoctrinated into their own demise in Thomas Vernay’s 'Ice Teens'.

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Asides, Music Video

Juicy J: Flood Watch (Feat. Offset)

Music video wizards LAMAR+NIK return to their hometown roots to showcase the interesting lives lived in small town USA in Juicy J promo 'Flood Watch'.

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Live Action

Niclas Gillis Exposes the Reality of Sexual Exploitation Endured by Women Living in Poverty in ‘Hold Me Down’

DN spoke to Niclas Gillis about the years of research which underpins his unflinching depiction of a sexually exploited woman living in poverty in the USA.

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Asides, Documentary

Ropes

Kendy Ty shares Bangkok-based model and actress Kitarang Tasee’s thoughts on the joys of bondage performance in short portrait documentary, 'Ropes'.

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Live Action

Bruce/Lee Unleash Delightfully Dark Korean Comedy Short ‘Lost Dogs’

DN caught up with Cullan Bruce & Chris Lee to discuss the transformative power of dark acts in their delightfully bizarre Korean comedy short 'Lost Dogs'.

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Live Action

A Man Wrestles With His Role in the Violence & Exploitation of Small Town Life in David Schofield’s ‘Remora’

Director David Schofield takes Directors Notes behind the scenes of his tough seaside story of hard lives and hard decisions, Remora.

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Art & Fashion, Asides

We Are Aliens From Outer Space

French director Nicolas Millot takes a look at Japan from a different point of view in 'We Are Aliens From Outer Space'.

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Asides, Live Action

Addy

An impoverished young girl finds her grief over the death of a family pet met by cold indifference by her unsympathetic father in Matty Crawford’s short.

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Awards, Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, News

13th Mobile Film Festival Award Winners

Wrapping up its 13th edition the Mobile Film Festival illustrates that even the shortest of short films can be poetic, aesthetic and impactful.

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