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DN LFF2014: Duane Hopkins Examines the Lives of England’s Abandoned Classes in ‘Bypass’

In the first of our interviews from the 58th BFI London Film Festival we talk to director Duane Hopkins about his exploration of the lives of England's

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Reading & Leeds 2014 Cinema Tent Shorts

DN heads off to the Reading & Leeds festivals for our annual Cinema Tent Shorts screenings. But you can get a sneak peek of the films right here & now...

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DN Takes the Family Friendly Short Film Fun to Camp Bestival

This year we're starting our summer screenings early with a journey through the weird and wonderful world of bite-size cinema, served up in screenings designed

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EIFF2014: Festival Roundup

At the start of Paul Harrill’s beautifully thoughtful debut feature, Something, Anything, Peggy suffers a miscarriage. A letter of support arrives from

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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