Film Festival Category

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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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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Animation, Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN339: TOWER – Keith Maitland

Keith Maitland shares how he combined archival footage & rotoscoped animation to place audiences in the crosshairs of his Texas Tower shooting documentary.

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Film Festival, Live Action

Pee. Wait. Panic. Alice Seabright Charms the Pants off Us With a Night of Soul Searching in ‘Pregnant Pause’

Writer/director Alice Seabright talks tight deadlines and relatable characters as she joins us to discuss the first in a series of character-driven shorts.

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Film Festival, Live Action

Wild

A young woman rejects societal norms in favour of her own desires after forging an all consuming connection with a wolf in Nicolette Krebitz's 3rd feature.

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Film Festival, Live Action

Your Mother and I

Hoping to make you laugh & cry with a story encompassing the micro & macro, Anna Maguire joins us to discuss her adaptation of Dave Eggers' short story.

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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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Film Festival

Reading & Leeds 2016 Cinema Tent Shorts

This weekend Directors Notes braves the outside world to screen some of our favourite shorts from the past year at the Reading & Leeds music festivals.

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Animation, Film Festival

A Scenes of Crime Officer is Plagued by Memories of her Day Job in Marcus Armitage’s Thought-Provoking Animation ‘S.O.C.O’

Inspired by his dad's work as a Scenes of Crime officer, animator Marcus Armitage examines the struggles an individual can face when a troublesome job follows

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