Social Realism Archives - Directors Notes

Cannes Double-Hitter Vida Skerk Finds Solidarity in the Industrial Sublime in Haunting ‘Left Behind, Still Standing’

Vida Skerk's second consecutive La Cinef Cannes selected short binds a closing British steelworks and the immigrant overseeing it into one haunted reckoning.

Awards, Live Action

Laura Carreira Crafts a Sensory Portrait of Gig Worker Loneliness in Her Multi BIFA Nominated Debut ‘On Falling’

Laura Carreira explains why removing antagonists sharpened her film's critique of the gig economy and its deleterious effect on he isolated Portuguese migrant.

Live Action

Daisy-May Hudson’s ‘Lollipop’ Is a Heartbreaking Portrait of Maternal Resilience and Devastating Systemic Failure

Daisy-May Hudson opens up about turning pain into power in her feature where a young woman struggles against a broken system to regain custody of her kids.

Live Action

A Woman Is Engulfed by Mexico’s Broken Bureaucracy in Alejandro Gerber Bicecci’s Feature ‘Dead Man’s Switch’

Alejandro Gerber Bicecci reveals the genesis of his labyrinthine drama about a subway driver met by violent indifference in her search for her missing husband.

Live Action

Michael Jobling’s ‘The Walk’ Captures Britain’s Disenfranchised Lives Via One Man’s Trek Through Nature

Michael Jobling speaks about purposely avoiding the typical approach to working class stories in his short showcasing a man’s gruelling emotional journey.

Live Action, Premiere

Amelia Sears’ ‘Three’ Dives Into the Psyche of a New Mother Fervently Grappling With Her Identity

Amelia Sears explains how she captured the difficulty of redefining your sense of self in the destabilising wake of becoming a mother for the first time.

Live Action, Premiere

A Cat Sitting Mishap Leads a Woman to Fall into a Spiral of Self-Recrimination in James Arden’s ‘Sitter’

James Arden explains how he crafted the anxious and heightened social realist tone of his kinetic urban short, about a lonely cat sitter.

Social Realism Tag Archive

Cannes Double-Hitter Vida Skerk Finds Solidarity in the Industrial Sublime in Haunting ‘Left Behind, Still Standing’

Laura Carreira Crafts a Sensory Portrait of Gig Worker Loneliness in Her Multi BIFA Nominated Debut ‘On Falling’

Daisy-May Hudson’s ‘Lollipop’ Is a Heartbreaking Portrait of Maternal Resilience and Devastating Systemic Failure

A Woman Is Engulfed by Mexico’s Broken Bureaucracy in Alejandro Gerber Bicecci’s Feature ‘Dead Man’s Switch’

Michael Jobling’s ‘The Walk’ Captures Britain’s Disenfranchised Lives Via One Man’s Trek Through Nature

Amelia Sears’ ‘Three’ Dives Into the Psyche of a New Mother Fervently Grappling With Her Identity

A Cat Sitting Mishap Leads a Woman to Fall into a Spiral of Self-Recrimination in James Arden’s ‘Sitter’