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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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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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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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DN LFF2013: Luton – Michalis Konstantatos

Director Michalis Konstantatos’ debut feature Luton, depicts the mundanity of three seemingly unrelated lives, which are brought together by a deeply

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DN LFF2013: Sixteen – Rob Brown

Rob Brown returns to DN with the feature debut about a former child soldier trying to make peace with his past and move on to a promising future.

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DN LFF2013: Youth – Tom Shoval

Tom Shoval’s debut feature Youth shows the desperate lengths two brothers from a newly poor Israeli middle class family go to in an effort to help their

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DN LFF2013: See You Next Tuesday – Drew Tobia

Definitely the only film screening at this year’s London Film Festival which promises that the whole family can enjoy cutting themselves to it; Drew

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DN LFF2013: Ilo Ilo – Anthony Chen

Already an art house hit in France and his native Singapore, Anthony Chen’s debut feature Ilo Ilo pulls inspiration from his younger experiences of family

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DN LFF2013: Northwest – Michael Noer

Danish director Michael Noer’s newest feature Northwest depicts just how fast petty disputes can spiral out of control for a pair of brothers caught up in

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Teenage – Matt Wolf

There used to be a time when there was no buffer between the stages of child and adult and although we take it for granted today, adolescents had to fight hard

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BFI London Film Festival 2013: Preview

Earlier this morning, the programme for the BFI London Film Festival 2013 was announced, and although the Twitter buzz claiming this to be one of the most

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