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The Guest of Honour Won’t See Out Her Own Birthday in Kalainithan Kalaichelvan’s Darkly Comic Tamil Short ‘Karupy’

Across shifting chapters, Kalainithan Kalaichelvan pieces together a grandmother whose family realise how little of her inner life they ever truly knew.

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James Button Delivers a One-Man Ensemble DIY Duck Themed Apocalypse in Horror Comedy ‘The Quackening’

James Button delivers a duck-themed apocalypse nobody knew they needed: a no-budget, one-man Welsh comedy horror that gleefully makes filmmaking fun again.

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Tim Nathan Skewers Late-Stage Capitalist Britain in Absurdist Comedy ‘Thoughts & Prayers’

Combining precise cinematography with dry humour, Tim Nathan reveals how he grounded absurdity in truth in his comic take on contemporary Britain.

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Dangerous Obsession Hides Beneath the Intimacy of a Shave in Luigi Sibona’s Psychosexual Thriller ‘In Your Hands’

Shaving scenes choreographed to flirt with murder anchor Luigi Sibona's psychosexual thriller about desire projected onto an indifferent stranger.

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Feathered Friends Are Few and Far Between in Ryan Mackfall’s Lovecraftian Horror ‘The Birdwatcher’

Ryan Mackfall takes a twitcher's calming pastime and twists it into an otherworldly Lovecraftian horror exploring the destruction of the soul.

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The Blaine Brothers Revisit a Seismic Family Event to Inspire Single-Take Comedy Drama ‘Undeletable’

The Blaine Brothers revisit the exact spot of a supremely awkward family revelation to capture their single-take voicemail short starring Sophia Di Martino.

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David Liu Builds a Lifetime of History Between Lovers in His Temporally Fluid Short ‘A Song for Gracie’

Past and present blur at a Mojave gas station as David Liu's elegiac short asks what it means to carry every version of yourself into an uncertain future.

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A Mother and Two Daughters Circle Their Shared History in Chanelle Eidenbenz’s Subtly Searing Short ‘Resort’

Mosaic editing and a rich sonic world coalesce in Chanelle Eidenbenz's auto-fictional short where a fractured family orbits each other without quite landing.

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Ghosts of Empire Bleed Through a Hustler’s Frantic South London Odyssey in Keifer Nyron Taylor’s ‘The Tobacconist’

Keifer Nyron Taylor unpacks how years of photographing Brixton laid the foundation for his 16mm depiction of a vibrant community threatened by gentrification.

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Hector Bell Unmasks the Performatively So Called Enlightened Modern Man in His Body-Horror Short ‘Skin Deep’

Hector Bell discusses crafting a character whose private vice literally erupts across his girlfriend's skin, every visit blooming as her fresh personal hell.

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Kyle Jon Shephard Mines a Father’s Jealousy of His Missing Son for Awkward Comedy in ‘Proud Dad

"There’s nothing funnier than what’s not said." Kyle Jon Shephard on the high comedy glances in his film about a father whose ego refuses to read the room.

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Ben S. Hyland Cuts Fragile Masculinity Down to Size in His Sharp Vasectomy Comedy Short ‘The Snip’

Ben S. Hyland talks to us about the irrational male fear which inspired his cutting comedy short and why you can never have too many testicle gags.

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