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Film Festival, Live Action

“I Always Wanted to Make a Piece About Sex Dates” – Get Under the Sheets of Arthur Cahn’s ‘Herculanum’

Writer/Director/Actor/Editor Arthur Cahn explains his multi-role process, how he works with actors and why casting calls are similar to dating apps.

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Film Festival

BFI Flare 2017: And In The End…

“It may have been my first time at BFI Flare, but it definitely won’t be my last.” DN shares our highlights from Europe’s largest LGBT film festival.

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Film Festival

BFI Flare 2017: Bigger and Better

James Maitre looks ahead to this year's celebration of some of the world's best LGBT features & shorts on offer at the burgeoning BFI Flare Film Festival.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN347: Chameleon – Jorge Riquelme Serrano

Jorge Riquelme Serrano shares how structured improvisation enabled him to shoot his uninvited guest psychological thriller feature debut in a mere 4 days.

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN346: Chasing Asylum – Eva Orner

Eva Orner’s documentary exposes the repugnant, inhumane ways the Australian government treats asylum seekers and its attempts to hide these atrocities.

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Film Festival, Live Action

Zoology

Ivan I. Tverdovsky explores individualism and dictated uniformity in his story of a solitary woman who is given a new lease of life when she grows a tail.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN343: Indivisible – Edoardo De Angelis

Edoardo De Angelis explores themes of individualism and sororal symbiosis in his tale of singing siamese twins who discover the possibility of life apart.

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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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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN342: After Love – Joachim Lafosse

Joachim Lafosse discusses how he depicted a couple's acrimonious separation and divorce through the use of long fluid sequence shots of domestic hostility.

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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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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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Film Festival

Black Stars: Belafonte, Poitier and a Long Overdue Celebration of Black Cinema

DN revels in film writer Ashley Clark’s diverse, sensitive and enthralling curation for the BFI's celebration of black actors on film and TV.

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