Live Action, Premiere
Manuel Tröndle explains how he created his poetic short about conversion therapy with close camerawork, an immersive feel and a fine sense of montage.
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Art & Fashion
Anthony Capristo shares how he captured the turmoil of young love through innovative transitions, poetic voiceover and finding the perfect images.
Art & Fashion, Asides
Director Adi Halfin celebrates the joyous all-encompassing pleasure of love and freedom in her intuitively made dance short.
Documentary
Harun Güler discusses using slow-motion, evocative performances and subversive fashion to point to new ways for Turkish gender expression.
Live Action
Andzej Gavriss describes how he channelled the devastating stories and experiences of Ukrainian refugees into his powerful campaign film.
Music
Using epic anamorphic lenses and flowing Steadicam movements, Ben Galster takes DN inside the precise planning of his thrilling one-shot music video.
Sylvain Cruiziat talks to DN about critiquing the art world's self-serving response to the refugee crises in his blistering metafictional satire.
Nathan Engelhardt talks us through using montage, whimsical voiceover and nostalgic 35mm film to create a fresh, unsentimental romance.
Documentary, Live Action
Jonas Bak describes how he wanted to faithfully tell his mother's story through both form and narrative for his debut feature film.
Co-directed with Filip Piskorzynski, Juliette Hüsler discusses the methods behind their experimental depiction of perception's influence on reality.
Nicolaas Schmidt reveals how he combined irony with romance to excellent effect in the static yet constantly moving minimalist film 'FIRST TIME'.
Film Festival
A panoramic portrait of a nation in turmoil these 10 British Shorts Fest 2021 films show our nation's ability to acerbically diagnose our deepest problems.
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