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Film Festival

Ten Standout Shorts From Berlinale 2024

From pencil animation to lo-fi romance, playful documentaries to mesmerising metafictions, here are our top 10 films from the Berlinale Shorts 2024 programme.

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Article

Redmond Bacon Top Ten Feature Films of 2023

Courtroom dramas, creature-feature horrors, genre reinventions and sad character studies characterise Redmond Bacon's Top 10 features of 2023.

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Live Action

Christian Avilés ‘Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays’ Elegantly Captures the Tragic Spirit of Brits Abroad

Christian Avilés discusses his use of sun-dappled 16mm images and the mixture of documentary and magic realism to depict the tragic Balconing phenomenon.

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Live Action, Premiere

Pola Rader Creates a Beguiling Romantic Hybrid Exploring the Shifting Phases of Love in ‘And Died Together One Day’

Polar Rader shares her careful colour correction process and high-definition lenses used to depict the journey of love amongst bitterly cold wintry climes.

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Article

Eyecandy Founder Jacobi Mehringer on Building an Innovative Visual Techniques Library to Inspire Filmmakers Everywhere

Jacobi Mehringer reveals how the decision not to gatekeep his work led to the creation of one of the fastest-growing film reference libraries on the internet.

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Article

ShortsTV’s Head of Production Stéphanie Charmail Shares Her Essential Short Film Distribution Insights

ShortsTV's BAFTA nominated Stéphanie Charmail shares her invaluable insights about production, the film festival circuit & short film distribution strategies.

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Live Action, Premiere

Sarah Meital Benjamin’s Israeli Road Trip Short ‘Arava’ Eloquently Captures the Confusion of Youth

Sarah Meital Benjamin shares how she created a fresh look at Israel through non-professional casting and improvisation in her stirring road trip short.

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Art & Fashion, Premiere

Freddie Leyden’s ‘Under the Skin of a Guild: Wake of Lost Souls’ Exposes Britain’s Colonial Horrors Through Dance

Freddie Leyden's history reckoning dance film explores the horrific past of Guildhall through heavy contrasts, wide angles and loose camera movement.

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Live Action, Premiere

Jamie Fraser Surveys a Cross-Section of British Life in the Charming, Multi-Layered ‘Green Space’

Jamie Frasher shares how he was inspired by the compositions of landscape paintings for his surveillance-like observation of British oddity.

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Film Festival

Ten Must-See Shorts Screening at the 19th Annual Hollyshorts

Split between American and international efforts, we pick out 10 fantastic shorts from LA's very own 19th Hollyshorts Film Festival.

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Live Action, Premiere

Dustin Waldman’s ‘Never Fuggedaboutit’ Sees The Sopranos Become a Heated Battleground for American Patriotism

Dustin Waldman speaks about vividly evoking the paranoia of the post 9/11 era in showing a post-production house removing the Twin Towers from The Sopranos.

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Music, Premiere

Daria Geller’s ‘Everybody Knows’ Updates a Leonard Cohen Classic for Today’s Era of Russian Aggression

Daria Geller talks to us about counting the tragic cost of Russian complacency through warm 16mm, striking group scenes and a smart Leonard Cohen cover.

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