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• Griffin Wenzler’s Parking Lot Comedy ‘Horse Dreams’ Finds a Literary Agent Forced to Reveal Bad News
• Invisible Barriers of Self-Protection Are Challenged by Intimacy in John Mark Fitzpatrick’s Romance Drama ‘Outdoors’
• Eyecandy Founder Jacobi Mehringer on Building an Innovative Visual Techniques Library to Inspire Filmmakers Everywhere
• Arundati Thandur’s Modern Period Drama Mini-Series ‘I’m Dying Inside’ Eschews Outmoded Menstruation Advertising
• ShortsTV’s Head of Production Stéphanie Charmail Shares Her Essential Short Film Distribution Insights
• Aaron John McIntyre’s Hazy Short ‘Gomorrah’ Finds a Recovering Addict Relapsing Amongst Glasgow’s Dingy Backstreets
• A Seemingly Adorable Term of Endearment Reveals the Cracks and Toxicity of a Relationship in Dan Boaden’s ‘Pet Name’
• A Lifetime of Mutual Resentment Derails a Birthday Celebration in Emily Munster’s ‘Norma’
• Pain Manifests in Physical Form in Diana Antunes’ Dark, Enchanting Music Video for Ela Li’s ‘Choradeira’
• Georgios Hartofilakidis’ ‘Thursday Night Sorbet’ Lays Bare Awkward Romantic Interludes in a Late Night Rideshare
• Gareth Malone’s Drama Short ‘Fly-Tipping’ Poignantly Presents the Turmoil of Losing an Unborn Child
• Sarah Meital Benjamin’s Israeli Road Trip Short ‘Arava’ Eloquently Captures the Confusion of Youth
• Shihan Fé Blanca Fahim’s ‘Influential’ Shatters the Carefully Crafted Façades Presented by Our Online Selves
• Three New York Locals Argue About Pills, Politics and Semantics in Jon Ryan Sugimoto’s Bodega Comedy ‘Gut Punch’
• Mattia Fiumani on Championing Sustainability in the World of Advertising With New Festival Conero Film + Adv
• Michael Rees’ Comedy ‘Middle Sized Things’ Sees a Lecturer’s Nonsensical Theory Demolished by His Students
• Heather Lang & Purdie Baumann Reclaim the Sacredness of Dance and Community With Experimental Short ‘Simulation’
• A Couple’s Intimate Conversation Takes a Flagrantly Freaky Turn in Erin Murray’s ‘I Don’t Need to Know’
• An Injured Young Man Incites a Surreal Encounter in Björn Rühmann’s Psychological Thriller ‘MirrorMirror’
• Freddie Leyden’s ‘Under the Skin of a Guild: Wake of Lost Souls’ Exposes Britain’s Colonial Horrors Through Dance
• Jamie Fraser Surveys a Cross-Section of British Life in the Charming, Multi-Layered ‘Green Space’
• Reading & Leeds 2023 Cinema Tent…When the Music Stops You Don’t Have To
• Giorgio Miraflor’s ‘Me + Lee’ Is a Love Letter to the Intangible Energy That Exists Between Siblings
• Ten Must-See Shorts Screening at the 19th Annual Hollyshorts
• Benn Veasey’s ‘Vibration’ Is a Celebration of Dance and Community Manifested by Artificial Intelligence
• An Intense Game of Street Fighter Exposes Fragile Masculinity in Yuan Hu’s Frenzied Comedy ‘Sticks of Fury’
• Daniel Quirke Explains How Wax, Religion & DIY Instruments Inspired NFTS Short ‘The Song of a Lost Boy’
• Charlie Reader’s Emotionally Charged Short ‘Lobo’ Questions the Struggles of Belonging Through Heart Wrenching Loss.
• Serkan Bayrak’s ‘Civil Servant’ Encourages Us to Better Understand Ourselves Through the Eyes of Others
• Jim Vendiola’s Horror-Comedy ‘Pretty Pickle’ Reveals Why Our Lover’s Quirks Are Perhaps Best Left Alone
• Jessica Morris’ Tragicomedy ‘Round Robin’ Depicts the Surreal Reality Beneath a Faltering Family Facade
• Hilary Eden Immerses Us in the Fervently Charged World of a Y2K Teenager in Nostalgic Short ‘Bellybutton’
• BLOK Take Aim at the Warped Ideals of Honour in Darkly Comic Satirical Short ‘A Dishonourable Death’
• Jeff Ledellaytner & Ariel Costa Present a Lo-Fi Psychedelic Visual Feast With Super Bobby Music Video ‘Dirty City’
• Olivia J. Middleton Weaves a Classical Tale of Fleeting Romance in Her Roadside Cafe-Set Drama ‘A90′
• Dustin Waldman’s ‘Never Fuggedaboutit’ Sees The Sopranos Become a Heated Battleground for American Patriotism
• A Day in the Life of a Child Becomes a Psychedelic Voyage in Gerhard Funk’s Trippy ‘A Goat’s Spell’
• Hannah Renton Considers the Lasting Impact of Flawed Models of Love in Decade Spanning Triptych ‘Love Is Free’
• Daria Geller’s ‘Everybody Knows’ Updates a Leonard Cohen Classic for Today’s Era of Russian Aggression
• The Violence of the Milanese Underworld Hits Hard in Vivarinis Film ‘Mascagni’ Symphony | Inno all’Infamia’
• Lina Kalcheva Draws From Greek Mythology for Her Romantic Entanglement Stop Motion Short ‘Other Half’
• A Young Woman’s Longing for Intimate Fellowship Reverberates Through Julia Ponce Díaz’s Evocative Debut ‘Soredia’
• A Tricky Patient Causes a Therapist to Face His Own Issues in Ron Eyal’s Drama Short ‘The Therapist’
• NONO & Rodrgio Inada’s Epic ‘Naija Odyssey’ for Whatsapp Reconciles the Fundamentals of Identity and Belonging
• A Boundless Futuristic City Is Explored in Karl Poyzer’s Sci-Fi Music Video for Ital Tek’s ‘The Mirror’
• Masculinity Is a Toxic, Menacing Curse in Dima Barch’s Gripping Queer Russian Horror Short ‘Dead End’
• Hugh Mulhern Captures the Chaos of a Night Out in His Live Action/Animation Hybrid Music Video ‘Doolally’
• Kai Kurve’s Poetic and Propulsive ‘CORNERBOY’ Confronts the Corruption at the Heart of a Gangster’s Life
• A Comedian Attempts to Come to Terms With a Recent Traumatic Event in April Moreau’s AFI Short ‘Hysterical’
• The Prime Minister’s Untimely Death Leads to an Acerbic Battle of Self-Interest in Isher Sahota’s ‘Goodnight Henry’
• Moral Corruption Leads to the Dissolution of a Family in Duván Duque Vargas’ Colombian Drama ‘Todo Incluido’
• Joaquim Bayle’s ‘Gwendoline’ is a Delightfully Deadpan Tribute to Being Struggling Musicians on the Road
• How Joseph Wallace Created a Modern Folktale with a Timeless Message in new Short ‘Salvation Has No Name’
• Josh Leong’s ‘Sorry You Have to See This’ Empathetically Portrays Both Sides of a Mental Health Crisis
• How “Being Trapped in a Perpetual Dick Joke” Inspired Nick Roney’s SXSW Award Winning Short ‘The Flute’
• 10 Striking Short Films From the 2023 Edition of Annecy International Animation Film Festival
• Nudity Is Stripped of Its Over Sexualised Prejudices in Ross Casswell’s Liberating Documentary Short ‘Naked Woman’
• Dasha Gushchina’s ‘Standing Between Two Walls’ for Manizha Unpicks the Paradox of Russian-Tajik Identity
• Pavel Kling’s Evocative Short ‘Bad Timing’ Acutely Captures the Cost of Leaving Everything Behind
• Vathana Suganya Suppiah’s ‘Ratthum’ Breaks Free of the Pervasive Shame and Silence Around Infertility
• Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter’s Cannes Special Mention Short ‘FÁR’ Pits the Law of Business Against Nature
• Flóra Anna Buda’s Palme d’Or Winning Animation ’27’ Boldly Embraces Sexual Fantasy Within Economic Limbo
• The Sole Survivor of a Climbing Accident Recalls His Supernatural Encounter in Giles Buchanan’s Horror ‘Terror’
• A Man in Turmoil Searches for Meaning in Sergey Spirin & Andrei Beresnev’s Visually Stunning Short ‘IYOV’
• Patrick Hanser’s A.I. Generated Music Video for ‘Cores’ Is a Kaleidoscopic Tapestry of Classic Art Styles
• A Surprise Package Leads a Heartbroken Recluse to Embrace His Inner Pervert in Greg Fox’s ‘Monkey-Love, Please Hold’
• Loïc Phil’s ‘Connection’ Encapsulates the Life Altering Intensity of a Spontaneous Passionate Love Affair
• Ajuàn Isaac-George’s ‘Snowfalls in the Summer’ Richly Captures the Ups & Downs of Family Life as the Years Roll By
• Turkina Faso Envisages a Romantic Late-Night Odyssey in Her Dreamy Music Video for Herbert’s ‘Two Doors’
• “Pirate Filmmaking” Heads to Cannes in Karni&Saul’s Fishy Road Trip Short ‘Wild Summon’
• Faris Alrjoob Crafts a Beguiling Mystery of Love with Cannes-Premiering Short ‘The Red Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry’
• Grief & Political Rage Converge in Musa Alderson-Clarke’s Searing Cannes Selected Thriller ‘Killing Boris Johnson’
• Robin Trouillet Crafts a Portrait of a Hard Raver Who Goes Again the Grain in ‘Turning Man – 81RPM’
• Alexandra Bas Welcomes a More Vulnerable Masculinity in Joyous Fashion Short ‘The Distance Between Us’
• An Immigrant Battles Loss and Her Legal Status in Tsvetelina Zdraveva & Jerred North’s Drama ‘Yellowbird’
• Eivind Landsvik’s Cannes Palme d’Or Short ‘TITS’ Shares an Achingly Honest Portrayal of Teenage Insecurities
• Simone Smith’s Surreal Short ‘The Möbius Trip’ Explores the Inner Madness of All Chaotic Families
• A Father With Parkinson’s and His Son Attempt to Score Drugs in Grant Taylor’s Heartwarming Comedy Drama ‘Ecstasy’
• Zhenia Kazankina’s Doc-Fiction Hybrid ‘Continuity of Parks’ Imagines Greek Heroes Living in a Moscow Park
• Reed Purvis Offers Us a Snapshot of the Culture Shock Experienced by Rural to Urban Migrants in ‘Barrio Frontera’
• Stephen Follows Shares a Decade of Fascinating Industry Insights from the Film Data and Education Website
• Olivia de Camps Subverts Masculinity in Gendered Spaces for Rodney Chrome’s ‘Break the Internet’
• Lia Williams’ Tender Prison Drama ‘Samovar’ Poetically Imagines the Defiant Survival of Raoul Wallenberg
• A French Exchange Student Stumbles Into a Family Tragedy in Joe Weiland’s Upbeat Comedy Drama ‘Gorka’
• Kyryl Volovych Creates Intimacy Through the Amalgamation of Souls in Sensual Entely Music Video ‘Prosa’
• A Young Man Struggles to Maintain His Sanity When His Sister Goes Missing in Nathan Ginter’s ‘Last Seen’
• Humans Are the Houseplants in Benjamin Roberds’ Twisted Horror Comedy ‘Your Houseplants Are Screaming’
• A Karate Instructor Inspires His Shito Ryu Trainees to Excellence in Ewurakua Dawson-Amoah’s ‘The Knife Is Sharp’
• An Uninvited Guest Disrupts a Quiet Family Reunion in Joseph Brett’s Unnerving Stop Motion Folk Horror ‘Stones’
• A Birthday Girl’s Wiener-Dog Gets Annihilated by Her Hapless Father’s Car in McKinley Carlin’s Comedy ‘Noodles Forever’
• 10 Impressive Short Film Picks to Catch at the 2023 National Film Festival for Talented Youth
• Chloe Sarbib’s ‘Jensen’ Finds a Songwriter Struggling to Retain Her Sense of Self Before Taking Centre Stage
• Emma Jesse’s Dark Comedy ‘Soggy Biscuit’ Takes a Stomach Churning Look at Peer Pressure Fuelled Male Bravado
• Will Kenning Offers a Fresh Perspective on the Horrors of County Lines Drug Gangs in Dance Drama ‘Tap Boy’
• VERSUS Exalt Western Sydney’s Multidisciplinary Pool of Creative Talent in Ambitious Shorts Series ‘Latitudes’
• David O’Reilly’s ‘Kubrick By Candlelight’ Pays a Playful Comic Homage to Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’
• Will & Carly Capture the Worrying Reality of Male Perceptions of Breasts in ‘TITS: A Voyage Into Objectification’
• Nastia Korkia’s ‘Almost Spring’ Brutally Lays Bare the Normalisation of Corruption in Everyday Russian Life
• Björn Swoboda & Eike Frederik Schulz Capture the Sultry Seductiveness of a Scent in ‘The Interview’
• A Suburban Father’s Blistering Anger Boils Over into Family Confrontation in Daniel Turvil’s ‘This Much So Far’
• Calvin Demba Takes an Algorithmic Look at the Damaging Cycle of Toxic Relationships in Sexbot Comedy ‘BabyDolls’
• Ryan Schnackenberg Confronts Filmmaker Rejection Head on in His Excruciating Short ‘The Screener’
• A Spiral of Self-Doubt Ensues When a Woman Finds a Grey Hair in Eilidh Nicoll’s Animated Short ‘Silvering’
• A Young Woman Desperately Clings to Hope in a Brutal Reality in Zornitsa Dimitrova’s ‘A Dark Moment of Faith’
• The Toxicity of a Strained Father-Son Relationship Comes to a Shocking Head in Ben Tricklebank’s ‘Champ’
• Nathan Engelhardt’s ‘Senti L’Energia’ Explores the Blurring Relationship Lines Between Friendship and Love
• Michelle & Noel Keserwany’s Golden-Bear Winning Poetic Short ‘Les Chenilles’ Weaves a Delicate Thread
• Haunting Visions Seep Into the Mind of a Lonely Drifter in Eli Powers’ Psychological Horror ‘Skin & Bone’
• Sachin Dheeraj’s ‘Men in Blue’ Viscerally Exposes the Modern Slave Labour Inflicted on Immigrant Guest Workers
• Samm Hodges Explores the Lasting Impact of Generational Male Violence in Immersive Drama Short ‘Tender’
• Werner Vivier’s ‘Walls Like Windows’ Captures Our Acute Need for Human Connection and Empathy When Navigating Trauma
• Abi Damaris Corbin Honours Marine Veteran Brian Easley’s Tragic Story in Gripping Heist Thriller ‘Breaking’
• Erik Odom Excavates the Enduring Effects of Shame in Thrilling Horror Drama ‘Box on the Hill’
• Natko Stipaničev’s ‘Arka’ Is an Unconventional Interpretation of Life Through the Strata of a Grand Cruise Ship
• Ten Thought-Provoking Shorts to Catch at Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023
• James Slater’s ‘Look for the Diamonds’ Encourages Us Grab Life by the Horns No Matter the Circumstances
• Audrey Mascina’s ‘I AM THAT I AM’ Explores Sexuality as Expression and Empowerment Without Constraints
• Jimmy Olsson Explores the Delicately Shifting Father-Daughter Bond in ‘Last Weekend With Jenny and John’
• Past and Present Converge in Lado Kvataniya’s Stirring Ode to Georgian Family with Mgzavrebi Music Video ‘Waltz’
• Visitor Share the Origin Story of a Remarkable Female Sumo Wrestler in Documentary Short ‘I am Tuvsho’
• Seamus Murphy’s ‘Henry Needs a New Home’ Is a Farcical Tale of One Man’s Battle With a Metallic Antagonist
• An Author’s Hope for Isolation is Disturbed by a Strange Couple in Alex Fofonoff’s Cosmic Horror ‘While Mortals Sleep’
• The Best Short Films at SXSW 2023
• Cyrus Neshvad Depicts a Young Iranian Woman’s Desperate Battle for Freedom in Oscar Short ‘The Red Suitcase’
• A Mother Battles Grief in a Dense and Vivid Fantasy World in Matt O’Donnell’s Animated Short ‘Runelight’
• A Father and Son Wrestle With the Nature of Loss in João Gonzalez’ Oscar Nominated Short ‘Ice Merchants’
• A Woman’s Journey Home Takes a Series of Unexpected Turns in Eirik Tveiten’s Oscar Nominated ‘Night Ride’.
• Evgenia Arbugaeva & Maxim Arbugaev Acutely Capture the Effects of Climate Change in Oscar-Nominated Doc ‘Haulout’
• Joshua Seftel’s Oscar Nominated Short ‘Stranger at the Gate’ Documents the Most Inspiring of Redemption Arcs
• Reality Crumbles in Lachlan Pendragon’s ‘An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It’
• A Young Girl Embarks on a Desperate Search for Answers in Anders Walter’s Heartbreaking Oscar Nominated Drama ‘Ivalu’
• Ten Tantalising Picks from the National Film and Television School’s 2023 Graduate Showcase
• A Mariner Takes a Sudden and Astounding Voyage in Wendy Tilby & Amanda Forbis’ Oscar Nominated ‘The Flying Sailor’
• Tom Krawczyk Captures the Blossoming of his Mother’s Incredible Relationship with A Baby Squirrel in Doc ‘My Duduś’
• Ten Brilliant Films to Catch from Berlinale Shorts 2023
• Dawn Richard Champions the Power of Self-Expression in Moving New Orleans-Set Dance Short ‘Pigments’
• A Mother and Daughter Struggle to Part Company in Emma Branderhorst’s Tender Short ‘Ma Mère et Moi’
• The Philosophical Musings of a One Eyed Shell Delight in Dean Fleischer Camp’s ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’
• An Undersung Political Activist is Given Her Due in Alex Kayode-Kay’s BAFTA Nominated ‘The Ballad of Olive Morris’
• An Inside Look at Programming Berlinale Shorts 2023 with Head of Shorts Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck
• Peder Thomas Pedersen Surveys Society’s Dark Underbelly in Noir Thriller ‘Between the Ocean and the Snow’
• A Couple Struggle to Redefine Their Relationship in Beck Kitsis & Chris McNabb’s LGBTQ Short ‘Valentine’
• John Stevenson’s BAFTA Nominated Animation ‘Middle Watch’ Sees a Struggling Sailor Face the Extraordinary
• Hannah Jacobs Embraces Life’s Uncertainties in Her Affirming BAFTA Nominated Animation ‘Your Mountain is Waiting’
• Jessica Yu-Li Henwick’s Mobile Phone Shot BAFTA Short ‘Bus Girl’ Offers a Sumptuous Allegorical Look at Creativity
• Jo Ingabire Moys’ BAFTA Nominated ‘Bazigaga’ Spotlights the Unsung Witch Who Saved 100s During the Rwandan Genocide
• Bousher & Gee’s ‘You’re Absolutely Right’ Sees an Affirming Hotline Fuel a Paranoid Hoarder’s Troubled Beliefs
• Kurt Andrew Schneider’s Dark Comedy ‘Notice Me’ Questions the Contrasting Facades We Hide Behind Online
• A Grieving Woman Experiences a Close Encounter in Meredith Hama-Brown’s Music Video for Loscil’s ‘Sol’
• The Unintended Consequences of Technological Evolution are Unravelled in Sean Buckelew’s ‘Drone’
• Colby Day Traverses the Archetypal Romantic Journey of a New Relationship in Dance Short ‘Lead/Follow’
• Paul Holbrook’s ‘Old Windows’ Captivates With a Conversation Between Strangers That Is Much More Than It Seems
• Jacob Lee’s BAFTA Short ‘A Drifting Up’ Offers a Cathartic Montage of City Life & Human Connection
• Directors Notes Top 20 Filmmaker Conversations of 2022
• A Filmmaker Asks His Roommate to Watch His Short in Frank Mosley & Hugo De Sousa’s Comedy ‘The Event’
• Las Vegas’ Original Elvis Impersonator Confronts His Fading Identity in Ivan Olita’s Short Doc ‘A King’
• Nat Gee Traverses the Ebbs and Flows of an Intense Anxiety Attack in Experiential Short ‘Waves’
• Ten Captivating Short Films From Emerging Filmmakers at London Film School’s 2023 Graduate Showcase
• A Mystery Devours a Group of Stranded Men in Andrey M Paounov & Alex Barrett’s Chilly Thriller ‘January’
• Sara Gunnarsdóttir’s Oscar Nominated ‘My Year of Dicks’ Takes a Female Forward Look at Teenage Sexuality
• Nina Ognjanović’s Slamdance Debut ‘Where the Road Leads’ Encapsulates the Push-and-Pull of Rural Living
• Lado Kvataniya’s ‘Burn’ Is a Caustic Warning Against Our Collective Disillusionment at the Hands of Propaganda.
• The Newman Brothers Comedy ‘Do Not Touch’ Captures the Absurd Actions a Man Takes To Hide His Cheating Ways
• A Shared Bereavement Forces Estranged Brothers into Awkward Reconciliation in Oscar & BAFTA Winning Short ‘An Irish Goodbye’
• A Physical Manifestation of Family Dysfunction Heralds a Young Girl’s Empowerment in Sarah Lasry’s ‘Spell on You’
• Sarah Grant’s ‘Candy’ Is a Heartening Body Positive Reclamation of Sexuality and Empowerment
• A Delusional Man Meddles With Space and Time in Sascha Vernik’s Sci-Fi Thriller Animation ‘Losing It’
• Greg Hall’s ‘Baby Boy’ Takes Us on a Riveting Journey Through the Heart of Drug and Sex Fuelled Darkness
• Alex Cook’s Ghostly Sci-Fi Short for Son Lux’s ‘Undertow’ Sees a Man Haunted by an Ethereal Doppelgänger
• Zuzanna Plisz’s Striking Monochrome Horror Music Video ‘I DIED’ Takes Direct Aim at Dated Catholic Mores
• Jack Weisman & Gabriela Osio Vanden Shift the Perspective of Polar Bear Migration in Doc ‘Nuisance Bear’
• The Baldest Man in the World Accidentally Starts a Moon-Worshipping Cult in Luke Bather’s Heartwarming ‘Bald’
• Robert Mentov & Dwight Jantzi’s ‘Gypsy Son’ Skilfully Recreates 90s Russia for a Powerful Gangster Tale
• Unexpected Revelations Strengthen the Bonds of Friendship in Leonard Rääf’s Comedy Drama ‘Hiding Behind Masks’
• Jeanie Finlay Top Ten Features of 2022
• Sarah Smith Top Ten Feature Films of 2022
• James Maitre Top Ten Feature Films of 2022
• Redmond Bacon Top 10 Features of 2022
• The Reids Chart the Tense Ongoing Challenges of Running a Fashion Brand in Doc ‘Cole Buxton: Still Here’
• Bounty/Banana Celebrate Ten Years as Creative Partners With a Wild and Vibrant Search for ‘InTENsity’
• Exploring the Ends of the World: The Perseverance and Determination Behind Nicholas Jones’ Documentary ‘A Greenlander’
• Dan Löwenstein’s ‘Safe’ Provides an Intimate Look at the Pain and Isolation Faced by Male Survivors of Sexual Violence
• Kathy Mitrani Captures the Excitement and Turmoil of Peer Pressure in Evocative 16mm Short ‘Buzzkill’
• Waley Wang’s ‘Teen Troubles in Dirty Jersey’ Captures the Thrums of Punk, Toxic Masculinity & Disaffected Angst
• A Surrealistic Veneer Hides a Family Breakdown in TJ O’Grady Peyton’s Offbeat ‘Broken: A Lockdown Story’
• One Woman’s Ecstasy Is Another’s Obsessive Agony in Mattis Ohana Goksøyr’s Sensuous Short ‘Are You OK’
• An Infinite Queue Is Formed in Ben Kadie’s Technically Mind-Blowing Surreal Dance Short ‘Ahead, Behind’
• Corina Andrian Creates a Mesmerising and Unconventional Stop-Start Culture Clash Dance Film With ‘Dancen’
• Oskar Brockbank Viscerally Captures the Emotional and Mental Strains of Motherhood in ‘Surrender’
• A Deadly Smell Tarnishes the Lives of Forest Creatures in Julien Piau’s Dark Fantasy Short ‘GRIFFURE’
• A Teenage Boy Struggles With the Shame of Victimhood After a Brutal Attack in Toby Wharton’s Drama Short ‘Held’
• Tensions Between a Mother and Daughter Lead to a Hellish Conclusion in Lucy Knox’s ‘Hot Mother’
• Anita Bruvere’s Stop Motion Short ‘Home’ Is a Story of Community Told Through the Living History of a Building
• A Teenager Is Coerced by Her Boyfriend in Seemab Gul’s Tense Contemporary Social Commentary Short ‘Sandstorm’
• Roxy Rezvany Explores the Skewed Power Dynamics of a Domestic Abuse Police Interview in ‘Honesty’
• A Crippling Drug Addiction Causes a Warped Sense of Reality in Joseph Pierce’s Rotoscoped Short ‘Scale’
• A Chance Encounter Reveals Unexpected Truths in Keeran Anwar Blessie’s Queer Short ‘A Fox in the Night’
• Ivyy Chen Examines the Daily Struggles Unnecessarily Faced by Too Many in ‘Learning Disabilities in Primary Care’
• Three Strangers Cross Paths and Reshape Time in Alexander Stamatiadis’ Audiovisual Dance Short ‘THORN’
• Two Lonely Cat Enthusiasts Connect in Brendan Prost’s Eerie Bifurcated Character Drama ‘Heavy Petting’
• David Findlay’s Drama ‘Lay Me by the Shore’ Follows a Week in the Life of a Grieving Trans Boy
• Naomi Pacifique Excavates the Intertwined Nature of Bodies and Intimacy in Her LFS Grad Short ‘after a room’
• Sam Baron Reflects on the Stoicism and Fragility of Men in His Actor in Crisis Comedy Drama ‘Big Ears’
• Twin Brothers Have to Say a Tragic Goodbye in Argam Gevorgyan’s Experimental Vertical Drama ‘La Beaute’
• The Modern Archetype of a Desperate Artist Is Given an Expressionistic Depiction in Mitch deQuilletes’ ‘Cowards’
• Craig Bingham’s Yorkshire-Set Fight Pit Short ‘IRONSTONE’ Is a Brooding Look at a Battle for Survival
• The Hard Choices of Abortion Are Anchored in Daily Reality in Garrett Detrixhe’s ‘The Girl at the Motor Hotel’
• A Young Artist Falls Into Nostalgic Pitfalls in Ewa Smyk’s Wistful Hand-Painted Animated Short ‘Homebird’
• Manchester Animation Festival 2022 Preview: “The Biggest and Most Exciting Edition Yet”
• Female Pleasure Is Given a Playful Fulfilling Expression in Alena Shevchenko’s ‘Sorry I Am Late I Was Masturbating’
• Mask-Clad Roller Skating Thieves Risk It All in Ben Dean’s Frenetic Dr. Dre Branded Short ‘Flipper’s Skate Heist’
• Phillip Kaminiak’s ‘Circle’ Is a Lively Dance Indictment of the Endless Hustle and Bustle of Metropolitan Life
• 10 Must-Catch Short Films by Promising Filmmakers at Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2022
• A Black Student’s Revelation Leads to Uncomfortable Repercussions in Chinwe Okorie’s Drama Short ‘Elephant’
• An Immigrant Couple in 70s London Navigate the Law and Each Other in Roxy Rezvany’s Short ‘Photo Booth’
• An Oblique Ritual Is Performed to Create Genetically Designed Kids in Lucy McRae’s Experimental Sci-Fi ‘Futurekin’
• Alberto Arellano’s ‘Mental Soirée’ Immerses Us in an Evocative Experimental Voyage Into Telepathy.
• VERSUS Exquisitely Thread Together The Australian Ballet’s Rich History of 60 Years of Movement in ‘Beyond Words’
• Ali Gill’s Enigmatic Puzzle Film ‘Wimmelbook’ Invites the Viewer in to Become an Active Participant
• Richan Li’s Zany Head-Swapping Animated Short ‘Babble Bubble’ Explores a Hyper-Modern Identity Crisis
• Dimitris Tsakaleas & Lida Vartzioti’s Dating Short ‘Happy Ending’ Is an Ode to Finding Love in Unexpected Places
• Tom Wakeling’s Experimental Sci-Fi ‘Pattern’ Is a Dreamlike Voyage on the Destructive Power of Repetition
• Victoria Singh-Thompson’s ‘Don’t Forget To Go Home’ Captures Coming-of-Age While Caught Between Cultures
• Neal Mulani’s ‘Tell Me Something I Don’t Know’ Warns of the Perils of Giving Into Your Deepest Insecurities
• Kevin Kim Evokes the Cinematic Sensibility of Wong Kar-Wai for His Sumptuous Fashion Film ‘Capsule 003′
• Eliza Jiménez Cossio & Lexi Tannenholtz’s ‘We Should Get Dinner!’ Probes the True Nature of Family
• Yú Reframes Masculinity Through a Feminine Gaze in Experimental Social Satire Short ‘Flowers While You’re Here’
• Ten Impressively Innovative Feature Films From London Film Festival 2022
• Natalia López Gallardo’s ‘Robe of Gems’ Depicts the Pervasive Climate of Fear Drug Cartels Impose on Mexican Life
• Jessica Bishopp Intimately Follows the Lives of Young Bird Watchers in Immersive Documentary ‘Skyward’
• Old Friends Face a Difficult Moral Quandary in Mauritz Brekke Solberg’s Gripping Summer Drama ‘Juli.’
• Ten Cutting-Edge Short Films To Catch At London Film Festival 2022
• Jack Pirie’s Genre-Blurring ‘The Storm Chaser’ Offers a Mythical Revamp to Conventional Extreme Sports Films
• The Journey of Human Existence Is Seen Through the Eyes of AI in Riccardo Fusetti’s Short ‘Generation’
• Emma Branderhorst’s ‘Spotless’ Tackles the Worldwide Issue of Period Poverty With an Unflinching Gaze
• Kiosa Sukami Examines Portrayals of Black Men in His Contemplative Crime Drama ‘A Letter To Black Men’
• 10 Unmissable Short Films From Bolton Film Festival 2022
• The Inevitability of Death Invigorates a Renewed Sense of Life in Omar Kakar’s ‘Man in the Morgue’
• 66th London Film Festival Preview: Bigger and Broader
• Arielle Friedman & Lucy Blumenfield Examine the Painful Fallibility of Memory in ‘Immutable Uncertainties’
• An Unlikely Bond Forms Between a Young Boy and His Neighbour in Emma Miranda Moore’s Stirring Drama ‘Run’
• Spirits Awaken in an Estranged Crimson World in Hannah Doerr’s Mystical Infrared Music Video ‘RUINS’
• Alexander Ronsdorf Explores the Genesis of the Creative Process in Branded Short ‘White Blank Page’
• Brandon Tauszik’s Trifold ‘Bad Thoughts’ Book Trailer Showcases Modern Women Wrestling With Love and Adulthood
• Elijah Allan-Blitz’s ‘Remembering’ Uses Cutting-Edge AR Technology to Open up a World of Pure Imagination
• Manuel Tröndle Crafts a Moving Portrait of Queer Life Under the Horrors of Conversion Therapy in ‘Mending’
• Martin Wolfgang Klapperbein’s ‘Fuk It’ Depicts the Ensuing Chaos of an All Too Relatable Burnout
• A Mysterious Nurse Collides With a Taxi Driver in Juan Pablo Blanco’s Vivid Film Noir Homage ‘Soy Hombre’
• Anthony Capristo’s Gorgeous Poetic Film ‘HeavenHell’ Fully Captures the Highs and Lows of Being in Love
• Darryl Foster’s ‘Hard To Reach’ Shows the Spiritual Connection Between a Young Man and His Mentor
• Omer Ben-Shachar Queries the Masked Nature of Identity in Hybrid Claudio Olachea Music Video ‘Down Here’
• Rhys Day’s Mysterious Climate Change Allegory ‘Strange Country’ Depicts the Australian Wilderness Fighting Back
• Victor Claramunt Channels the Feeling of Joy and Empowerment in Vibrant Dance Short ‘L’Amour’
• Live to Love
• Lucas Hrubizna Traverses Purgatory Through Five Uncanny Groundbreaking VolCap Music Videos for Sad Night Dynamite
• A Formidable Woman Confronts Her Trauma in Mat Sheldon’s Visceral Monologue Short ‘The Electricity in Me’
• Harun Güler’s ‘In Limbo’ Mixes Documentary and High Style to Create an Ode to Non-Binary Turkish Life
• Louise de Nexon’s Stylish Spec Ad ‘Beyond Converse’ Is an Ode to the Boundless Power of Imagination
• 10 Essential British Shorts From the 2022 Edition of The Shortest Nights
• Michael Lazovsky’s Historical Holocaust Horror ‘Magdalena’ Acutely Captures the Difficulty of Letting Go of Trauma
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• An Unusual Love Triangle Blossoms in Nick Flügge’s Whimsical Mockumentary ‘The Last Bee on Earth’
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• Harry Windsor’s ‘The Most Wonderful Day of the Year’ Explores What Happens When Dissatisfaction Turns Into Action
• A Pair of Arctic Explorers Resort to Desperate Measures in Ben Pearce’s Perilous Comedy ‘A Few Miles South’
• An Inquisitive Retiree Surprises Her Neighbours in Caroline Steinbeis’ Comedy Drama ‘From A Strange Land’
• Giada Bossi’s Hybrid Short ‘Quattro Pareti’ Takes Us on a Painful Yet Tender Reflection of Grief
• Alec Moeller’s Dark Comedy ‘Empath’ Explores the Tricky Relationship Between Identity and Social Acceptance
• Samantha Scaffidi’s Drama Short ‘The Things We Left Unsaid’ Sees a Writer Fight for Her Emotional Freedom
• A Lone Horseman Harbours a Burning Secret in Santiago Posada’s Music Video for Miraclis’ Eerie Track ‘Scienter’
• Ray Smiling’s ‘Play This At My Funeral’ Extols Our Intimate Connections to the Songs in Our Lives
• Yulya Litinskaya’s Dark Video for Tosya Chaikina’s ‘Arrows Have Struck in the Heart’ Shows a World in Decay
• Katie Colosimo’s Comedy Short ‘Something You’ve Never Told Me’ Captures the Absurdity of Pettiness Between Friends
• A Devastating Disease Forces a Couple to Make a Heart-Rending Decision in Ian Roderick Gray’s ‘Survive This’
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• Ramiel Petros’ Touching Student Oscar/BAFTA Drama ‘Aziz’ Takes Three Friends On a Devastating Desert Road Trip
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• Joshua Stocker’s Thermal Dance Film ‘Entropy’ Is a Delirious Celebration of Pure Expression
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• Christian Schultz’ Lyrical Documentary ‘Infinite Blue’ Creates a Unique Portrait of Life on the Margins
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• A Starving Wolf Crawls Inside Human Skin in Solmund MacPherson’s Absurd Comedy ‘Wolf in Dude’s Clothing’
• David Easteal’s Intimate Transportive Commuter Epic ‘The Plains’ Shows Us How Less Can Easily Be More
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• The Masked Serial Killer Just Won’t Stay Down in Alex Montilla’s Inventive Comedy Slasher Short ‘Overkill’
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• Gregory Foltynowicz’s Arthouse Film ‘Lachesis’ Piercingly Ponders If We Can Control our Own Future
• Kenzie Sutton Highlights the Mundanity of Everyday Life in Stop Motion Short ‘Somebody Take the Wheel’
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• Varun Raman & Tom Hancock’s 16MM Comedy Short ‘Man or Tree’ Sees a Plant Ponder Its Metaphysical Reality
• Ninja Thyberg’s Debut Feature ‘Pleasure’ Commands Us to Reconsider Preconceived Notions of the Porn Industry
• Simon Robson’s ‘Ghost in the Machine’ Brutally Confronts the Damage Caused by Plastic in the Ocean
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• Bianca Poletti Tests the Boundaries of Traditional Dating & Relationships in Comedy Short ‘Radical Honesty’
• VERSUS Exalt the Cacophonous Tools of Party Dozen’s Trade in the Chaotic and Gritty ‘Macca the Mutt’
• Sina Dolati Plunges Us Into the Hyper Frenzied Neurodiverse Perspective of Säye Skye’s Mind in ‘ADHD’
• Iacopo Carapelli Channels a Feeling of Pure Ecstasy in His Video for Catarina Barberi’s ‘Broken Melody’
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• tao/s Expose the Dark Actuality of Child Trafficking & Exploitation in Social Justice Short ‘The Rabbit Hole’
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• Raw Style & Dirty Beats Reverberate in Harmony in Wendy Morgan’s Chic Music Video ‘Kisé’
• Rodney Chrome Splashes the Cash Around NYC in Zac Dov Wiesel’s Vivid Music Video ‘To The Money’
• Damo Yang Embraces the Sound of Roy Wang & Backspace in Music Videos ‘Fabulous Nuts’ & ‘Six-Eyed Dragonfly’
• Blake Bogosian Catalogues the Off-Kilter Outlook of David Fullarton in Doc ‘I Lied About Being an Artist’
• Alex Camilleri & Jon Natchez Talk the Art of Street Casting and Composing for Stirring Fisherman Drama ‘Luzzu’
• Harris Dickinson Explores the Ties That Bind a Young Soldier On His Last Night of Freedom in Riveting ‘2003’
• Matthew Harmer Debates the Morality of Autonomous Weaponry in Insightful Social Study Doc ‘Immoral Code’
• ‘Square It’ by Sammy Rawal Is the Cheesy Collaboration Music Video Celebration That We All Crave
• Slow Cinema Meets Rap Music in Krzysztof Skonieczny’s Brutally Compelling Tektonika Project ‘Peru48’
• A Forlorn Teenager Auditions for the High School Choir in Kate McCarthy’s Comedy Drama ‘Look, Mira’
• Mathieu Mondoulet & Thibaut Eiferman’s ‘La Fuga Dei Cervelli’ Explores the Fight Between Freedom and Conformity
• I.M Explore the Boldly Brave Journey to Personal Acceptance of Vitiligo Suffers in ‘Shed Some Light’
• Álvaro de la Hoz’s Horror ‘Replica’ Is a Delightfully Delirious Dance of Death
• A Hot Water Bottle Has an Existential Crisis in Jenny Wright & Jake Cunningham’s Animation ‘Blue Bottle’
• Kirby Ferguson Opens up About His Career as an Online Creator and the Decision to Retire From Internet Filmmaking
• Lewis Attey Tells the Punctuated History of a Lonely Drifter Across His Multi-Year Short Drama ‘Basil’
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• Alexandra Velasco Depicts a Spiralling Descent Into Madness in Art-Horror Short ‘The Seventh Circle’
• Leo Gorenshtein Questions What Is Enough in Fatalistic 3h Company Music Video ‘Adequately’
• A Chatty Man Instigates an Unsettling Conversation in Larry Ketang & Liam White’s Thriller ‘Punch-Drunk’
• Elena Saurel Playfully Explores Generational Perspectives on Polarising Topics in Series ‘ANOTHER TIME, With Paul’
• Iacopo Carapelli Celebrates Individuality and Authenticity in His Vibrant Ray-Ban Branded Short ‘You’re On’
• Philipp Yuryev & Ivan Proskuryakov’s ‘Against Tortures in Russia’ Powerfully Condemns Police Brutality
• Riffy Ahmed Encapsulates the Intensity of Migration in Experimental Greek Myth Adaptation ‘Medea’
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• Elizabeth Godar & Mitch deQuilettes Satirise a Competitive Couples Hiking League in Mockumentary ‘Hill Hikers’
• Jack Gray Examines the Absurdity of Everyday Routines in His Jam-Packed Looping Animation ‘Menagerie’
• Anna Fredrikke Bjerke’s ‘Exposed’ Examines the Friction Between Personal Boundaries & Supposed Artistic Integrity
• Paul Ward’s Surfing Film ‘Luck is Alive’ Creates a Kaleidoscopic Portrait of Animist Philosophy
• Diana Olifirova’s Solo Dance Film ‘Intrance’ is a Haunting Portrait of Life in the Shadow of Conflict
• Henna Välkky & Eesu Lehtola Create a Collective Subconscious With Animated Doc ‘We are in a Dream’
• Léo Berne & Raphaël Rodriguez Force Us to Consider the Darkest of a Suppressed Subconscious in ‘Censor of Dreams’
• Zachary Rubin Smartly Uses the Sci-Fi Genre to Explore the Need for Human Connection in ‘Imaginary Friend’
• Gabriel Connelly Explores the Lasting Effects of Survivor’s Guilt in 16mm Short ‘Swimming for Shore’
• A Musician Makes a Music Video While Making a Music Video in Josh Sondock’s Ambitious Promo ‘Morning / Midnight’
• William Williamson Encapsulates the Backbreaking Labour of Vietnam’s Wet Market in ‘All for You’
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• Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović on ‘Murina’ Her Brooding Coming-Of-Age Drama Rife With Passion and Longing
• Goh Iromoto Ponders Questions of Time, Mortality and the Balance of Life in Wildlife Feature ‘Land of the Living’
• Andree Ljutica Chronicles a Day in a Life on Parole in Non-Conventional Doc ‘Seven Hundred Fifty-Six’
• A Teenage Girl With Autism and Her Sister Tackle Life After a Bereavement in Rosie Westhoff’s ‘Our Sister’
• Anthony Oberbeck’s Darkly Comedic ‘Book’ Tracks a Stoic Man Who Finds Solace in an Unusual Literary Tome
• Michael Socha Sees Double in Uzo Oleh’s Gripping, Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Edicius’
• Phumi Morare Demonstrates a Woman’s Extraordinary Defiance in the Face of Oppression in ‘When the Sun Sets’
• James Price Explores the Lure of Gang Culture in ‘Infectious Nihilism and Small Metallic Pieces of Hope’
• Ross Donald’s ‘One Last Spin’ Brutally Lays Bare the Cost Behind Britain’s Pernicious Gambling Addiction
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• Olivier Lescot’s ‘The Rift’ is the Perfect High-Octane Tribute to the Myth of Tommy Lee Jones
• Matt Genesis Executes Pulse-Pounding Action in His John Wick-Esque Promo for Xavier Goodman’s ‘Tanjiro’
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• Chiara Schreder’s ‘Hysterical Sisters’ Personifies the Painful Reality of Adenomyosis & Endometriosis Sufferers
• Christian Goue Combines Burning Desire With Mythic Iconography in Julez Lorenzo Music Video ‘Static Signal’
• Amber Schaefer Showcases the Absurdity of Influencer Culture With Dark Comedy ‘NYC Tips and Tricks’
• A Stranger Arises Out of the Ocean to Feast in Federico Urdaneta’s Mystical Video for Pigeon’s ‘It’s You’
• Guido Acampa Aligns the Fragility of Human Relationships Against an Ominous Backdrop of War in ‘Inner Front.’
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• Les Mills & Joanna Quinn Return to Their Working Class Heroine for Oscar-Nominated ‘Affairs of the Art’
• Ian Pons Jewell Recreates a Heated Congressional Hearing in His Music Video for Coldxman’s ‘Blasphemy’
• Antonin Niclass Forges a Magical Link Between Strangers in BAFTA Nominated Animation ‘Do Not Feed The Pigeons’
• A Night’s Sleep Is Anxiously Interrupted in Ida Melum’s BAFTA Nominated Stop Motion ‘Night of the Living Dread’
• Nathan Engelhardt’s ‘Your Curly Hair’ Beautifully Explores the Moments That Make a Relationship
• JONES Harness the Power of Allegorical Storytelling in BAFTA Short ‘Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee’
• Tomas Gomez Bustillo Curates a Collection of Quotidian Memories in ‘Museum of Fleeting Wonders’
• Jo Prichard Takes a Tender Look at the Loss of an Iconic London Bingo Club in ‘The Palace’
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• Shaun James Grant Captures Perseverance in the Face of Bitter Loss in Melancholic Diner-Set Tale ‘Hope’
• Will Wightman’s Frenetic Short ‘Heart Failure’ Is a Whip-Smart Gen Z Take on Modern Relationships
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• The Bonds of Sisterhood Are Put To the Test in Kevin Vu’s Eccentric Misfit Short ‘Perfect as Cats’
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• A Nosy Scholar Encounters Dark Secrets in Ryan Mackfall’s Macabre H. P. Lovecraft Adaptation ‘Backwoods’
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• Retaining Your Humanity Is Key In Tomek Suwalski’s Pulse-Pounding Trailer for ‘Dying Light 2 Stay Human’
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• Rachel Stubbings Directs an Explosively Funny Comedy About a Woman Who Gets Stuck in a Toilet in ‘The Bridesmaid’
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• Alex Fischman Cárdenas’ Dance Film ‘Neptune’s Dreams’ Blends Mesmerising Movements With Aquatic Imagery
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• The Struggles of Homelessness Are Gracefully Interpreted Through Dance in Krzysztof Grajper’s ‘Home’
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• A Dark Family Secret Is Delicately Uncovered in Reiff Gaskell’s Nuanced Father-Son Drama ‘Monster’
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• Charlie Clift Allegorises the Ups and Downs of the Creative Process in Dance Short ‘Beyond the Horizon’
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• A Brother Confronts His Sister’s Appalling Boyfriend in Max Kane’s NYE Drama ‘House of Brotherly Love’
• Jacob Jonas Curates a Sense of Endless Togetherness With His One-Shot Music Video for Sia’s ‘Pin Drop’
• David Zinck Thrillingly Explores the Contradictory Nature of Sibling Relationships in ‘Sisterly Love’
• Julien Soulier’s Sun-Kissed ‘Ali’ Tenderly Explores Freestyle Gymnastics as a Form of Self-Expression
• Lanre Malaolu Highlights the Challenges of Racial Communication in One-Shot Dance Film ‘The Conversation’
• An Oblivious Duo Make a Daring Escape in Karl Poyzer & Joseph Roberts’ Comedy ‘Floaters: The Big Number Two’
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• A Biohazard Remediator Questions Her Own Morality in Ryan Oksenberg’s Horror Drama ‘Together’
• Fernando Nogari Boldly Lays Out the Reasons We Plan Ahead in Striking Nubank Ad ‘Your Future’
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• A Young Alcoholic Is Confronted by a Strange Ethereal Voice in Will Liney’s Subversive Short ‘Last Drop’
• A Fading Actress Delivers a Bloody Restaging of a Shakespearian Comedy in Kelsey Bollig’s Visceral ‘The Fourth Wall’
• A Courtyard Brimming With Trash Escalates into Disaster in Amélie Cochet & Louis Möhrle’s Grad Animation ‘IHR’
• Simon K Matthews Deconstructs the Portentous Nature of the Actors in One-Upmanship Comedy ‘Behind the Mask’
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• Varsha Panikar & Saad Nawab Create a Portrait of Tender Intimacy in Visual Poem ‘Bodies of Desire’
• Mark H. Rapaport Renders a Disturbing Vision of Family Therapy in ‘Andronicus’
• Misunderstandings Turn Into Dark Suspicions in Mattis Ohana Goksøyr’s ‘Good Luck’
• A Pregnant Spy Goes Into Hiding in Willem Kantine’s Subversive Music Video/Short Film Hybrid ‘Homunculus’
• Dominica Harrison’s ‘Chado’ Is a Coming of Age Story Set Within an Enchanted Russian Wilderness
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• A Stylised Contemporary Female Fighter Is Reborn in Camila Arroyo’s Dance Fashion Film ‘Soldaderas’
• Romantic Anxiety Meets Extreme Temperatures in Thessa Meijer’s Pastel-Coloured Comedy Body Horror ‘Heat’
• Marianne Farley Imagines a Dystopic Near Future Where Abortions Are Banned for Her Thriller ‘Frimas’
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• It’s a Life or Death Moment for a Beloved Toy in Andrew Rutter’s Absurd Horror Comedy ‘Peter the Penguin’
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• An Eventful Evening Causes an Emotional Collision in Fraser Scott’s Examination of Grief ‘Fart Car’
• A Cursed Weapon Paves the Road to Self-Actualisation in Stanley Sievers’ Oddball Comedy ‘Samurai Sword’
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• Jacob Halpren Effortlessly Balances Humour With Sadness in Beautifully Elusive Dramedy ‘Claire at Seven Months’
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• Philipp Yuryev’s ‘Tale of the Deaf’ Places Russian Rapper Husky Into a Sordid Soul Stealing Fairytale
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• Cynical Smile’s ‘Waves’ Showcases the Same-Yet-Different Beauty of Human Motion and Repetition
• Tommaso Ottomano Delivers a Bold Exploration of the Relationship Between the Physical and Mental Ego in ‘Body’
• Animated Short ‘Concrete’ Is an Inspiring Tale of Self-Discovery and Finding Your Purpose in the World
• Paul Nevison Reflects on Resilient Motherhood Amid the Syrian Crisis in Short Film ‘Prayer of the Mothers’
• Petter Holmsen Provides a Bird’s-Eye View of How Our Daily Habits Define Us in ‘Deb in Bed’
• Torben Loth Takes an Exploration Into Manhood and the Internal Struggle With Self in Dance Short ‘Torn’
• Elahe Esmaili Empathetically Explores the Decisions Behind an Iranian Child Marriage in ‘The Doll’
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• Jin Woo Depicts the Interchanging Role of Victim-Offender in Dark Otherworldly Animation ‘SAN’
• Grayson Whitehurst Presents a Darkly Comedic Reckoning In Morality Spec Ad ‘Purple | Life-Changing Sleep’
• Kezia Barnett Crafts a Poetic Vision of Nurses Reborn for Experimental Dance Film ‘Nurse Me’
• Love and Freedom Are Found On the Open Road in Thomas Vernay’s LGBTQ Music Video ‘Bad Things’
• Francesca Pazniokas Channels the Forced Seclusion of Quarantine in Surreal Experimental Short ‘6FT.’
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• Jeremy McNamara Captures the Cyclical Life of a Famous SF Intersection in ‘Jeremy Fish & The House On Haight’
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• Denis Dobrovoda Catalogues a Horrifying Part of British History in Human Zoo Story ‘Savage’
• An Isolated Family Become Unsettled by Their Disturbed Son in Zander Coté’s Woodland Thriller ‘Tantrums’
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• Justin Doherty & Neil Fox Merge Challenging Cinema With Professional Film Practice in ‘Wilderness’
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• Matt Mcclung Explores What Happens When Our Online Behaviours Become All Too Real in ‘One to One’
• Dan Braga Ulvestad Documents the Death Hotels in the Consecrated City of Varanasi in ‘By the River’
• A Launderette Trip Becomes a Soul Searching Journey Through the Stages of Guilt in Richard Paris Wilson’s ‘Clean’
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• A Didactic Short Story Is Given an All Too Relatable Contemporary Spin in ‘Rope’ by Kyomu Yoshida
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• Ivyy Chen Creates a Space of Calm and Contemplation in Soothing Mental Health Animation ‘isle of Chair’
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• Taisia Deeva’s Powerful Music Video ‘Parachute’ Sees a Community Transcend in Shared Emotional Unity
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• Tyler Rabinowitz Captures the Beauty of Gay Intimacy in his Bittersweet Romance Short ‘See You Soon’
• Julian Muller Humanises Homelessness in Gritty, Hard-hitting Drama ‘Sickboy’
• How an Ambitious Fish Became a Girl in Thessa Meijer’s Celebrated Tragicomedy ‘The Walking Fish’
• Mohammad Gorjestani on Capturing the Trauma of War in ‘Exit 12’
• EunJu Ara Choi Animates the Testimony of a Korean Sex Worker in Poetic and Poignant ‘Happy Ending’
• Serafima Serafimova Celebrates the Beauty of Movement & Human Connection in Dance Short ‘Still Life’
• LAMAR+NIK on Resurrecting the Magic Art of Kinegrams for Husbands’ Music Video ‘Manhorse’
• Justine Raczkiewicz Forewarns the Dangers of Extreme Cuisine in Darkly Absurdist Short ‘Waste’
• A Man Attempts to Hold His Partner up Emotionally (And Physically) in Randall Maxwell’s ‘Bad Furniture’
• Fede Canal Santiangeli on How Visual Poem ‘Absolution’ Deconstructs Traditional Masculine Roles
• Two Exes Impersonating Dragons Perform a Mating Dance in Benedict Cohen’s Refreshingly Funny ‘Rushes’
• Medet Shayakhmetov Brings to Life the Twisted Morality of Addiction in Scriptonite Music Video ‘Kolesa’
• Colin Read Artfully Breaks the Fourth Wall in Glass Animals’ Self-Assembled Music Video ‘Dreamland’
• Morgan Krantz Sees an Erotic Affair Unfold Either Side of a High-Rise Office Window in ‘Squeegee’
• Emmanuil Morari Tracks the Romantic Exploits of a Murderous Psychopath in Dark Comedy ‘She Lies Beautiful’
• A Disabled Comedian Becomes a Father During His Stand-Up Routine in David Abramsky’s One-Shot Short ‘Dad Joke’
• Ayla Spaans Tells an Expansive Love Story Over the Course of One Evening in ‘When We Were Strangers’
• Matt Pizzano & Nic Wehmeyer on Bringing 50s Television to Life in ‘The Grass is Always Greener on TV’
• Harry Jackson Exposes the Absurdity of Racism in Tables Turned Comedy ‘Stop and Search’
• Sendoa Cardoso Contemplates the Perennial Concept of Loneliness in Experimental Garden-Set Short ‘Solo’
• André Chocron’s Mind-Bending ‘Chronos’ is an Ingeniously Plotted Time-Travel Drama
• WeAreDN // Lockdown: I Can’t Breathe
• James F Coton’s “Day 48” A Quarantine Short Story Turns Lockdown into Art
• Diana Antunes Unlocks the Past Through the Memory Infused Spaces We Inhabit in Dance Short ‘Desabitar’
• The Legendary Bustle of NYC’s Penn Station Is Probed in Scott Lazer’s Frenetic Visual Essay ‘Commute’
• Marc Augey on Capturing the Mood of Quarantine Life in ‘How are u feeling?’
• A Young Girl’s World Is Torn Apart in Yuchao Feng’s Heartbreaking Child Abandonment Short ‘Pearl’
• WeAreDN // Lockdown: Eye for an Eye
• Colin Read’s ‘The Midas Hat’ Showcases the Magic of Match Cuts
• Karni&Saul Curate a Muybridge-Esque Evolving Music Video in Isolation for Micah P. Hinson’s ‘You and Me’
• Ethan Godel Imagines a World Where Romantic Conversation Is a Paid for Service in Sci-Fi Comedy ‘Vessel’
• Eli Powers Contemplates the Power of Miracles in Unexpected Places in Metaphysical Short ‘Holy Moses’
• Jonas Ulrich Imbues the Swiss Alps With an Overwhelming Sense of Paranoia in Icy Thriller ‘Thin Air’
• WeAreDN // Lockdown: It’s a Date
• Helki Frantzen’s ‘L.A. Roll’ Celebrates the Undervalued Culture of Roller Skating Discos in Los Angeles
• Mack Neaton Takes Down a Troublesome Ex With a Fantastical Feast in Neon-Infused Music Video ‘Spare Me’
• Lost Memories of an Old Dog Become Immortalised in Jonah Primiano’s Animation ‘Driftless’
• Erin Murray on the Challenges of Choreographing via Zoom for Thao & The Get Down Stay Down’s ‘Phenom’
• A Group of Vagabond Girls Run Wild in the Outback of Toby Morris’ Dystopian Sci-Fi ‘Cooee’
• WeAreDN // Lockdown: Hearth & Home
• Joshua Tuthill’s Space Race-Set Stop Motion ‘Black Dog’ Sees Tensions Rise Between Two Grieving Brothers
• Useless Superpowers & Toxic Friendship: Wade Into the Weird World of Christopher Good’s ‘Crude Oil’
• M.P. Wills Delivers a Topsy-Turvy Genre-Bender with Delicious Revenge Flick ‘Blood Orange’
• A Celebrity Anti-Drugs PSA Degenerates Into Hallucinatory Chaos in Yousef’s ‘Braindead’
• Victor Claramunt Contemplates the Route Back to Closeness in ‘The End of Social Distancing’
• WeAreDN // Lockdown: End of Days
• Sean Wang Creates a Moving Portrait of Home in the Poetic Documentary ‘Still Here’
• Chelsea Devantez Mines the Ills of Obsessive Social Stalking in Deliciously Acerbic SXSW Comedy ‘Basic’
• Lorenz Wunderle Weaves a Violent Psychedelic Tale of Pain, Loss & Vengeance in ‘Coyote’
• Raúl Koler & Emiliano Sette Personify Humanity’s Struggle to Overcome Life’s Tribulations in 3D Short ‘Anacronte’
• Charlie Reader’s ‘Everything You Didn’t Say’ Uncovers the Hidden Frustrations Behind All Relationships
• A Man & His Dog Leave the World Behind to Search for Gold in Taylor Mcintosh’s Contemplative ‘Swift River’
• WeAreDN // Lockdown: Loneliness
• Adi Halfin Remotely Directs Dancers in Lockdown for Asaf Avidan’s ‘Earth Odyssey’
• Tradition & Culture Vie for Ascendancy Over Self-Determination in Madja Amin’s Fantastical Debut ‘Stray Sheep’
• Memories of an Absent Father Emerge in Matthew Thorne’s Stormy Outback Drama ‘The Sand That Ate The Sea’
• A Broken Leg & a Broken Heart Challenges a Woman’s Sanity in Morgan Gruer’s Beautifully Crafted Short ‘Ghosted’
• Film Collective Mad Lazy Capture the Nonsense of London’s Youth in Brilliantly Funny Short ‘Aphorisms’
• WeAreDN // Lockdown: Techlash
• How Justin Daashuur Hopkins Hand Crafted a Beguiling Ode to Isolation for Blake Mills’ Haunting ‘Vanishing Twin’
• The Tensions Between Religion and Rebellion Ignite in Taisia Deeva’s Generational Clash Music Video ‘Zver’
• A Grieving Teenager Enlists a Hardened Fisherman in the Search for His Father in Ben Strang’s SXSW Winning ‘Beast’
• HOSH & 1979: Midnight (The Hanging Tree) Feat. Jalja
• A Young Female Weightlifter Finds an Unexpected Source of Support in Johnson Cheng’s Sports Drama ‘Iron Hands’
• WeAreDN // Lockdown: Cults
• Out of Comfort Reclaim an Identity Outside the Bonds of Conformity in Kinetic Fashion Short ‘The Heist’
• Lonelyleap Intimately Reflect on a Personal Account of Domestic Abuse in ‘Heather’
• A Pair of Sisters Live out an Endless Summer in a Timeless World in Ayla Spaans’ ‘About Two Girls’
• A Loner Resurrects His Dead Cat With the Help of a Mysterious Taxidermist in Irreverent Dark Comedy ‘Dead Animals’
• An Isolated Group of Privileged Teens Weather a World Ending Virus in Jakob Rørvik’s ‘Apocalypse Norway’
• WeAreDN // Lockdown: Feral
• An Act of Jealousy Leads to Devastating Repercussions in Victoria Rivera’s Coming of Age Short ‘Night Swim’
• Vagabon Grapples With the Primal Forces of Nature in Maegan Houang’s Sumptuous Music Video ‘In a Bind’
• Nina Meredith Explores African-American Culture & History Within the LA Skate Scene in ‘The Legacy Rides On’
• An Iraqi Marsh-Arab Confronts His New Existence as a Relic of the Past in Ivan Olita’s ‘The Last Singer’
• Politics & Religion Conspire to Bequeath Eternal Youth on the Powerful in Andzej Gavriss’ ‘You’re Born’
• WeAreDN // Lockdown: Family Friction
• An Absurd Act of Violence Becomes the Ultimate Form of Creative Self-Expression in Dorny Sunday’s ‘Judith’
• Men
• Daniel Henry Explores the Balance Between Impermanence and Sameness in Cathartic Road Trip Music Video ‘Tan’
• John Ogunmuyiwa Offers a Surprising Peek Into the Lives of Two South London Drug Dealers in ‘Mandem’
• Patrick Muhlberger Unleashes the Chaos of Well Meaning Idiots in His Frenetic One-Shot Comedy Short ‘Hot Dog’
• Sibling Rivalry Gets Deadly in the Gruelling World of Professional Gymnastics in Paris Zarcilla’s ‘Pommel’
• Janina Gavankar & Russo Schelling Echo Slow-Burning 70s Horror in SXSW Award-Winning Short ‘Stucco’
• A Broken Romance Fractures Time in Manuel Nogueira’s Short Film for Ladytron’s ‘Tower of Glass’
• Learn How Lorcan Finnegan Trapped Us in the Horror of Suburbia for Disturbing Sci-Fi Thriller ‘VIVARIUM’
• How Work Burnout Led Director Sang Joon Kim to Create Award Winning Short ‘The Wheel Turns’
• How Igor Bastidas Created a Year Long Personal Diary of His NYC Experience in Animated Short ‘The Big Apple’
• Emily Jenkins & Justin Black Replicate Human Consciousness in Groundbreaking POV Short ‘Terminally in Love’
• Nickolas Duarte Unearths the Painful Past of the Man Who Paints Souls in Surprising Documentary Short ‘Jay’
• Taisia Deeva Warns Against the Dangers of Blind Faith & Unquestioning Obedience in ‘Part Twelve’
• CCXP: World of all Worlds
• Bedroom Insecurities Spiral out of Control in Greg Fox’s Unsatisfied Romance Comedy ‘I Love You, Hannah’
• “I Love Plants!” – Jonny Look Returns to Directors Notes to Justify Plant-Torture Short ‘Assholes’
• Tragedy Is Transformed Into a Jubilant Celebration of Music in Jess Colquhoun’s ‘Sundays at the Triple Nickel’
• How Colin Read Used Innovative VFX Solutions for ‘Walls’ – A Story of Migration, Displacement & Family Separation
• A Sexual Predator Get What’s Coming to Him in Kate Dolan’s Satisfying Revenge Horror Short ‘Catcalls’
• Witness the Epic Rise & Fall of a Civilisation in Eidy Knowles’ Breathtaking 3D Animation ‘Babamimoun’
• José Lourenço Unveils the Neurotic Inner Monologues of a First Date in ‘Romance Language’
• An Astronaut Struggles to Adapt to Life on Earth After Redundancy in Joe Connor’s Musing on the Human Experience
• Divided We Scroll
• A Remote Syrian Refugee Orchestrates His Family’s Migration Over the Phone in Truls Krane Meby’s ‘Mobile’
• Jenny Jokela Creates a Tribute to Friendship & Self-Confidence in Animated Visual Poem ‘Live a Little’
• Jillian Lake Banishes Heartache With a Blast of Sad Girl Karaoke in Devon Mussett’s One-Shot Music Video ‘Oliver’
• Barry Chapman Looks to Toy with Audience Expectations in Animated Experiment Compilation ‘The Big Flip’
• A Paramedic Is Forced to Confront the Inevitability of Heartbreaking Loss in Frank Donnangelo’s ‘The Motions’
• Tom Streller Explores Dangerous Group Dynamics in Today’s Youth Culture in Artful Film Essay ‘Feel Something’
• An Artist’s Unconditional Love for Surfing Is Tested in Geoffroy Dubreuil’s Documentary Short ‘Nowavephobia’
• Gabriel Francis Discovers Personal Growth Amidst the Turbulence of Unexpected Changes in Dry Comedy ‘Perisher’
• The Best Short Films of Berlinale 2020
• The Best Feature Films of Berlinale 2020
• Andrey Gryazev Channels Russian Anger With Putin Into Blistering Found-Footage Documentary ‘The Foundation Pit’
• An Asshole AI Runs Roughshod Over Its Creators in Joel Jay Blacker’s Comedy Sci-Fi Series ‘Who You Are’
• Srdan Golubović on Creating a Balkan Version of ‘Paris, Texas’ in Devastating Family Separation Drama ‘Otac’
• Pac-Man to Panic Attacks: Case Jernigan Breaks Down the Intricacies of his Personal Portrait ‘eggshell’
• Matias Bolla Provides a Glimpse Into the Lives of Isolated Patagonian Gauchos in Enthralling Doc ‘Campesinos’
• Matias Mariani Creates a Fresh Vision of the São Paulo Immigrant Experience in Debut Feature ‘Shine Your Eyes’
• Ania Bajorek Freezes the Follies of Youth in Time for Drone Shot Motion Photograph Music Video ‘Ogień’
• Jia Zhang-Ke Returns to His Hometown of Fenyang for Chinese History Doc ‘Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue’
• A Young Woman Struggles to Forge a New Path in a Foreign City in James&James’ Experimental Short ‘Léa’
• The Passion of Desire Spans Decades in Lucio Castro’s Queer Romance Feature ‘End of the Century’
• Relive the True Story of a Lonely Seabird & his Hopeless Love in Natasza Cetner’s Animated Short ‘Nigel’
• The Conquest Goals of a Teen Holiday Shake the Foundations of Friendship in Thea Hvistendahl’s ‘Virgins4Lyfe’
• The Frivolity of a Co-Dependent Friendship Takes a Turn Towards Toxic in Waley Wang’s ‘Julie & I’
• Art Duo HOVVER’s Immersive Installations Are Illuminated in Alex Ramsey’s Doc ‘Tracing Light’
• Scott Perry Illustrates the Power of Heroes to Pave the Way in Inspirational Nike Spot ‘Queens Lead’
• Animation, Ideas, and Discourse Join Forces in Robert Grieves’ 2D/3D Animated Short ‘Disorder’
• Behnam Taheri Reunites Long-Time Friends in His Bizarrely Hilarious Short Comedy ‘Mondeo’
• The Side Effects of “Good Boy” Syndrome in Korean Society are Explored in Yoon Su Lee’s Short ‘Chakham’
• An Actress Is Pushed Beyond Her Emotional Limits in the Name of Art in Armand De Saint-Salvy’s ‘The Craft’
• Jehnny Beth: Flower
• A Basketball Player Triumphs Over Self-Doubt in Walter Stoehr’s Stunning Genesis Adaptation ‘My Kingdom Come’
• Robert Hackett Challenges Preconceived Notions and Genre Expectations in Directors UK Short ‘Special Delivery’
• Giulia Gandini Provides an Alternative Perspective of Homelessness in Her Innovative Doc ‘Home Stream’
• Mirza Ramic Embarks on Journey of Remembrance and Healing Through Music in Post-War Documentary ‘To Tell A Ghost’
• Jonathan Bregel Tracks the World’s Largest Annual Human Migration in Short Doc ‘Chunyun’
• Gregory Porter: Revival
• Welcome to WeAreDN // Offline
• Chris A. Neal Weaves a Much Needed Modern Day Good Samaritan Story in ‘Today You, Tomorrow Me’
• Alena Shevchenko Hesitates to Make the First Move in Playful Will She Won’t She Short ‘I’ll Say It First’
• Joe Dixon Gets Tangled up in ‘If Not Now Then When (Can’t We Just Try Something New?) Please! (Thank You)’
• Nina Gofur Captures the Dissociation Experienced by Marginalised Womxn in Experimental Short ‘Phantasmagoria’
• 70th Berlin Film Festival Preview: New Hands, Same Old City
• An Iranian Mother Is Pushed to Choose Between Danger or Destitution in Kaveh Mazaheri’s Gripping Drama ‘Funfair’
• Andre Muir Challenges Our Collective Acceptance of Gun Violence in Forthright Minimalist Short ‘4 Corners’
• A Supposedly Joyous Celebration Turns Sinister in W.A.M. Bleakley’s Harrowing Short ‘A Birthday Party’
• Neumodel: Hayah (Feat. Kiddysmile)
• A Meditation on Time and Nostalgia Luke Orlando Reminds Us There’s No Place Like Home in ‘Love’
• Sans Gravité
• A Soldier Runs the Gauntlet of a Futuristic War in Augusto De Fraga’s Apocalyptic Love Story ‘Hear From You’
• A Bereaved Son Falls Into a Drug Fuelled Spiral in Craig Dean Devine’s Meditation on Grief ‘Chinaski’
• Igorrr: Very Noise
• Mark Jenkin on the Journey and Success of ‘Bait’ His BAFTA-Nominated Breakthrough Feature
• Joe Bird Finds the Extraordinary in the Ordinary For His Poetic Cityscape ‘Where To Build In Stone’
• Luuk Walschot Looks Beyond Superficial Divisions in the Hope of Greater Unity in ‘Union Jake’
• Ben Dean Throws Us Headlong Into the Infectiously Subversive Mind of a Larger Than Life-Sized Artist in ‘Kitt’
• Dominic Hicks Lifts the Veil of Online Persona to Reveal the Dark Side of Human Behaviour in ‘Amazonia’
• Family and Religion Make for Disturbing Bedfellows in Robert Linsley’s Psychological Thriller ‘Ritual’
• An Impromptu Birthday Camping Trip Reveals All in Joseph Roberts’ Family Drama ‘Bellmouth’
• How Screenskills’ Mentoring Network Supports the Next Generation of UK Filmmakers
• Paul Nevison Opens Our Eyes to Hidden Exploitation in His Duo of ‘Can You See Me?’ Campaign Films
• An Interview with Vimeo’s Best Staff Pick Winners of 2019
• Cynical Smile Expresses the Mental Toll of Life in the Age of Distraction in Discordant Short ‘Fracture’
• Richard Dawson: Dead Dog in an Alleyway
• A Supermodel Embraces Her Inner Feline in Gabriel Juduc’s Surrealistic Fashion Portrait ‘This Is Marta’
• Fernando Moreira Conjures a Ritual of Self-Protection and Preservation for Brazil in ‘Eu Não Te Conheço’
• The Priest
• How “Personal Experience” Inspired Anushka Naanayakkara to Create a Stop-Motion Love Story Made From Wool
• Joan Bosch Contemplates the Desire for a Body Without a Soul in Experimental Short ‘Diary of Hidden Bodies’
• Luna
• Directors Notes Top 20 Filmmaker Conversations of 2019
• A Trio of Teenage Boys Struggle for Validation in Marius Myrmel’s Intimate Portrait of Masculinity ‘Armor’
• In Flux
• MarBelle Top Ten Feature Films of 2019
• Masculinity Is on the Operating Table in Zach Bandler’s Medical Comedy ‘Torn’
• Jeanie Finlay Top Ten Feature Films of 2019
• Neil Fox Top Ten Feature Films of 2019
• James Maitre Top Ten Feature Films of 2019
• Jack Savoretti: Christmas Morning
• DN372: The Passion of Desire Spans Decades in Lucio Castro’s Queer Romance Feature ‘End of the Century’
• Three Troubled Men Collide in Charlie Brafman & Magnus McCullagh’s Anthology Western ‘The Rabbit’s Foot’
• Zak Marx Provides a Shotgun Point-Of-View of Lovers on the Run in Oscar Scheller’s Runaway’
• DN371: Maura Delpero Embarks on an Enthralling Exploration of the Meaning of Motherhood in Dramatic Debut ‘Maternal’
• Matt Hopkins’ Follows Britain’s Most Exciting Zero-Waste Restaurant in ‘A Failure of the Imagination’