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Awards, Live Action

The Rapid Escalation of Mob Mentality Consumes a Welsh Village in Mac Nixon’s Enigmatic BIFA Nominated Horror ‘Flock’

Mac Nixon discusses building a timeless and stark world in his monochrome horror, where a lone farmer becomes the target of his neighbours' panicked fear.

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Animation, Premiere

An Aspiring Accordion Player Falls Prey To Insidious Exploitation in Eva Louise Hall’s Stop Motion Horror ‘Mira’

From a modest thesis project to a celebrated festival short, Eva Louise Hall reveals the unexpected journey of her dark tale of abusive creative relationships.

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Live Action, Premiere

Tobias Frøystad & Tayo Cittadella Cultivate a Surreal Harvest of Human Exploitation in ‘Fuck the Crops’

Tobias Frøystad & Tayo Cittadella discuss using rack focus to guide viewers through their haunting allegorical fable which is both darkly absurd and direct.

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Music Video

Jason Bock Exposes the Painful Process of a Contorted Metamorphosis in Movement Music Video ‘Lace’

A reimagining of vampiric transformation, Jason Bock speaks about rejecting clichés to find the raw emotional truth of undergoing a horrific visceral change.

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Live Action

The Weight of Horrifc Unspoken Trauma Crushes Small Shoulders in Lado Kvataniya’s Campaign Short ‘Haqqim Bor’

Lado Kvataniya unpacks his visceral, haunting metaphor of childhood trauma where children carry the weight of abuse as literal buildings on their backs.

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Live Action

Chi Thai Transforms Her Personal Refugee Trauma Into a Haunting Meditation on Survivor’s Guilt in ‘Lullaby’

Chi Thai explains why genre filmmaking was the only framework able to hold the horrific weight of her short depicting the trauma of a tragic refugee crossing.

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Art & Fashion, Premiere

Riccardo Fusetti Gives the Carefree Lifestyle Fashion Film a Subversive Twist in Multiformat Short ‘Editorial’

Riccardo Fusetti walks through the construction of his lifestyle short which uses 80 AI VFX shots to subvert our expectations of a model's carefree existence.

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Live Action, Premiere

Johannes Moe Blurs the Psychiatrist-Patient Dynamic With Devastating Consequences in ‘Lighting Up the Darkness’

Johannes Moe unpacks how Denmark’s mental health system failures reshaped his film and why humour was an essential element of its devastating narrative.

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Live Action

Transactional Intimacy Morphs Into a Surreal Meditation on Consumption in Talia Shea Levin’s ‘Make Me a Pizza’

Marxism, melting cheese, and mayhem: Talia Shea Levin takes us inside the saucy structural logic of her deliciously absurdist pizza porno parody.

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Live Action, Premiere

Priscilla Galvez Serves up a Fresh Look at Female Creativity in Her Banned Body Horror Debut ‘A Fermenting Woman’

Challenging outmoded perceptions of what’s socially acceptable, Priscilla Galvez explains why being banned by YouTube is a badge of honour for her short.

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Live Action

A Darkly Obsessed Woman Contemplates the End of Everything in Matthew B.C.’s Comedy Short ‘Death!’

Matthew B.C. tells DN how he and his crew maximised their minimal budget to create a high-quality short that's both funny and unsettling.

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Live Action, Premiere

Toni Hipwell’s ‘The Lure’ Reels in the Terror as a Fisherman Discovers He’s Not Alone Hoping for a Bite

Toni Hipwell tells DN how they achieved lush, detailed night time close-ups when shooting his macabre micro short about a lone fisherman's nocturnal surprise.

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