16:9 Tag Archive

Live Action

Defiant Black Trans Sisterhood Crashes Upscale Gentrification in Nana Duffuor’s Heist Short ‘Rainbow Girls’

As tech money prices them out of their own city, Nana Duffuor's trio of friends turn brazen luxury theft into an act of belonging, defiance and love.

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Documentary, Premiere

Grace Anna Cardona’s ‘Born To Hustle’ Refuses to Slow Down, Explain Itself or Wait for Audiences to Catch Up

Grace Anna Cardona's portrait of artist Emma Addams, Heart of Bone's macabre jeweller and accommodator of no one, gives the rest of us permission to let rip.

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Art & Fashion

Rachel McDonald Harnesses the Power of Movement and Radical Tenderness in Wordless Dance Short ‘Ternura’

Rachel McDonald orchestrates a transfeminist manifesto from Mexico City into a striking wordless dance short rooted in radical vulnerability and resistance.

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Animation, Documentary

Eoin Duffy’s ‘Christine Sinclair: Kind of a Big Deal’ Finds Inspiration in the Quiet Leadership of a Football Icon

Eoin Duffy returns to Directors Notes to discuss meeting the animated challenge of documenting the most prolific goal scorer in international soccer history.

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Live Action

Camila de Ilhéus Turns the Agony of Online Dating, Language Slips and a Brazilian Wax Into Cringe Comedy ‘Sofia’

Static frames, held beats and a sly aspect ratio shift power Camila de Ilhéus' squirm-inducing story of first impressions gone excruciatingly wrong.

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Animation

Exploring Survival Mechanisms and Resilience in Laurence Thérien’s Annecy-Winning Short Film ‘Ball Face’

Fresh from winning the Cristal for a Graduation Film at the 2026 Annecy Festival, Laurence Thérien joins us to discuss RCA short film 'Ball Face'.

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Live Action, Premiere

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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Documentary, Live Action, Premiere

Lorenz Klapfer Journeys Into the Sacred Gender Fluidity of Naples in Poetic Documentary ‘Figlie di Partenope’

Lorenz Klapfer explores a 13th century Neapolitan legend and the present day realities for the Naples trans community in his stunning poetic docufiction short.

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Live Action, Premiere

Maya Winkler Explores Boobs, Existential Dread & the Absurdity of Women’s Healthcare in Off-Kilter Comedy ‘Lumps’

A breast lump scare spirals into deadpan chaos as two mid-20s women navigate the absurdities of the medical system with twisted humour and defiant joy.

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Music Video

Isaac Brown Blends Raw Street Energy With Mythic Staging in Genesis Owusu’s Exhilarating Music Video ‘Stampede’

Filmed inside Accra's real daredevil bike community, Isaac Brown converges two distinct visual registers into a stampede you feel from the inside out.

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Live Action, Premiere

Retro-Futuristic Consumerism Meets Modern Day Existential Dread in Oscar Garth’s Absurdist Sci-Fi Short ‘Benji’

Oscar Garth walks us through using dialogue-free performances, hand built robot bins and retro-futurist whimsy as a Trojan horse for something much darker.

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Documentary

Livia Albeck-Ripka & Víctor Tadashi Suárez Expose the Poison of LA’s Post-Fire Limbo in ‘Still Standing’

Turning 16mm film stock, degraded tape and suffocating silence into tools of witness, 'Still Standing' documents once intimate spaces becoming hazardous zones.

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