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SXSW The Return…

A year ago, pretty much to the day, I hit the streets of Austin, Texas determined to find my way at SXSW for the very first time. It’s fair to say I was

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Film Festival, Live Action

IFFR2011: Bleak Night

Another astonishing Korean debut on the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Tiger Awards line-up was Bleak Night, written, edited and directed by the

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN IFFR2011: Bleak Night – Yoon Sung Hyun

Competing for the Tiger Awards at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Yoon Sung Hyun’s Bleak Night shows how petty squabbles amongst school

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DN IFFR2011: The Journals of Musan – Park Jung-Bum

Park Jung-Bum’s accomplished debut feature The Journals of Musan was awarded both the FIPRSECI Jury Award and a Tiger Award at the International Film

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Film Festival, Live Action

IFFR2011: End of Animal

Tales of the apocalypse are often told in epic gravitas and loud explosions, yet a recent trend of filmmaking has searched for strategies to dig under our skin

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IFFR 2011: Love Addiction

Love Addiction, alternatively titled Fuyu no Kemono which means ‘Winter’s Beast’ in Japanese, throws four characters with conflicting personalities into

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IFFR2011: The Journals of Musan

The Tiger Awards Competition line-up showcased an impressive array of world cinema feature-length debuts (and some second features), but none of these

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Film Festival, Live Action

IFFR2011: Poetry

When Yang Mija, performed with exquisite passion by veteran actress Yun Jung-hee, begins attending a local poetry class to attend to her late-life ennui, she

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Film Festival, News

YARNfest 2011 Programme

After a mightily impressive debut last year, we’re really pleased to see Gemma Mitchell’s Yarnfest return for its second year with what promises to

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Film Festival, Live Action

LSFF2011: Landscapes

It’s a real shame I didn’t have more time to attend screenings at this year’s London Short Film Festival. This, my third and final screening, was

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LSFF2011: Family Affairs

One thing I forgot to mention on my last London Short Film Festival review was the surprising standard of films I saw. I mean, not that I expected to see

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LSFF2011: Fucked Up Love

Last weekend the 8th London Short Film Festival hit the capital’s various screening venues and bars. Returning for its biggest year yet, having had well

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