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EIFF2014: This Year, it’s all About the Films

Writer/director Alex Barrett gets in the mood for his trip to the Edinburgh International Film Festival and explains why this year it's all about the films.

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN British Shorts Film Festival 2014 Screening

A regular and much anticipated fixture on the DN film calendar, yesterday saw this year’s Lichtspielklub, British Shorts film festival come to a

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: The Slaughter – Jason B Kohl

We bring our series of London Film Festival interviews to a close for another year with filmmaker and fellow curator Jason B Kohl’s short The Slaughter.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway

In Jill Soloway’s psychosexual comedy Afternoon Delight, a married mother decides it’s her duty to rescue a stripper but along the way discovers that the

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: The Kids from the Port – Alberto Morais

The first time we spoke to Spanish director Alberto Morais it was to discuss a journey taken by the old in The Waves. Alberto returns to the London Film

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Hide Your Smiling Faces – Daniel Patrick Carbone

Playing out over a nature rich, fragmented dreamlike structure, Daniel Patrick Carbone’s first feature Hide Your Smiling Faces beautifully brings the

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Film Festival, Live Action

Joe Swanberg Talks Directing, Acting & Getting His Bigger Budget Brew on for ‘Drinking Buddies’

Joe Swanberg’s 15th feature 'Drinking Buddies' sees him working on his biggest scale yet, DN discovered how his indie working methods adapted to the task.

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DN LFF2013: Salvo – Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza

Making the jump from writers and script consultants to the tandem directors’ chair, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza channelled their frustrations from

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: The Enemy Within – Yorgos Tsemberopoulos

In Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’ 5th feature The Enemy Within, an intellectual is forced to re-evaluate his assumptions when violence invades his home and shakes

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Film Festival

London Film Festival 2013: Roundup

As I sit writing this roundup on the final day of this year’s London Film Festival, I feel the air around me haunted by a strange sense of mediocrity.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Lifelong – Asli Özge

Director Asli Özge switches from the documentary style we saw in her debut feature Men on the Bridge back at the London Film Festival 2009 for the more

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Short Term 12 – Destin Daniel Cretton

Adapted from his earlier successful short of the same name, Destin Daniel Cretton’s feature Short Term 12 tells the story of a 20-something supervising staff

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