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Adolescent Reality Blurs Into the Surreal in Debby Friday & Nathan De Paz...
Music videos are a glorious playground for filmmakers and when Toronto based artist Debby Friday was writing her debut album, she wanted to create not just a music video but a narrative short which...
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A Primeval Outpouring of Emotions Overwhelms a New Mother in Phoebe...
The picture perfect blissful glowing mother rocking a milk drunk babe in her arms may be the stereotypical image we are all used to seeing but it’s one that belies the truth. In most cases, those...
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An Isolated Dog Walker Encounters a Disconcerting Loner in Rob Price’s Tense...
I first caught Rob Price’s tense short Strangers at the London Film Festival back in October where it stood out to me amongst the other shorts playing through its distinctively unnerving atmosphere....
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A Mother and Son Embark on a Surreal Day Out in Tom Stuart’s Emotive Comedy...
A jaunty little crime spree might not be the most conventional mother-son activity but it does make for a glorious opening to writer/director Tom Stuart’s directorial debut short Good Boy. It’s a...
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Repressed Family Trauma Rears Its Ugly Head in Tracy Mathewson & Kate...
Whilst psychedelics are largely associated with the hippie 60s or late 80s UK rave culture, their powers to draw out buried memories and treat a wide range of conditions is slowly becoming normalised...
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A Filipino Immigrant Worker Battles the Horrors of Assimilation in Paris...
When an undocumented Filipina immigrant takes a job as a carer for a terminally ill man, she learns that he, his family and his house may be harbouring a dark secret. Director Paris Zarcilla’s debut...
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A Forgetful Spouse Sparks Marital Disharmony in Arne Gjelten’s ‘The Best Day...
Following a couple who are hosting an event to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, director Arne Gjelten’s short film The Best Day of Our Lives takes a turn when one member of the couple...
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A Shy Englishman Abroad Isn’t Quite Able to Read Between the Lines in Edoardo...
Under the subtle veneer of comedy, made all the more preposterous by an all too typical awkward and fumbling Englishman, Edoardo Ulivelli’s Lo Sguardo (The Look) reverberates with pangs of loneliness...
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Conor Dooley’s Sprawling Short ‘Gold and Mud’ Tells a Lifelong Story of Love...
Director Conor Dooley’s all-encompassing comedy short Gold and Mud is a tale of one woman’s interaction with love and loss. A story told across a series of intimate vignettes that, when connected,...
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Kevin Staake’s Space-Set Drama ‘Noah’s Belt’ Finds Prisoners of Opposed...
High above the earth in a circular space prison, two cell mates find their relationship challenged when their respective home nations begin a warring conflict. Filmmaker Kevin Staake’s sci-fi drama...
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Jon Ryan Sugimoto’s ‘Full Time’ Is a Stark Warning Against Falling Into the...
Taking his own fears and life lessons learnt from his parents Jon Ryan Sugimoto’s dark comedy short Full Time is a worryingly relatable, modern day parable about the pernicious effect adulting often...
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Yasmin Afifi’s BAFTA Nominated ‘Jellyfish & Lobster’ Extols the Joys of...
Whilst terminal illness and imminent death might not be the obvious source for a delightful surreal comedy, Yasmin Afifi has built a humorous and affecting world within those parameters in BAFTA...
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An Unsavoury Opportunity Offers a Lucrative Solution for a Desperate Woman in...
Filmmaker Giuseppe Garau takes us into the bizarre seedy underbelly of the Italian tow truck industry in his slow paced yet captivating feature L’Incidente (The Accident). Previously featured on DN...
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Elham Ehsas Spotlights the Devastating Loss of Afghan Women’s Liberties in...
In 2021 the Taliban government took control of Afghanistan which brought in a desperate erosion of women’s rights in the country. This became the driving force behind the writing and direction of...
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An Imbalanced Friendship Plays Out Through a Series of Bizarre Flashbacks in...
Director Nathan De Paz Habib, previously featured on DN with co-director Debby Friday with their hybrid music video Good Luck, introduces us to another example of his experimental and surreal...
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A Dark Secret Threatens to Disrupt a Perfect Family Gathering in Simon Woods’...
An ominous, seeping darkness lies at the heart of Simon Woods’ BAFTA nominated short Such a Lovely Day. Set under a languorous English summer sun, a family spend a seemingly idyllic day together...
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An Insuppressible Barrage of Grief Courses Through Misan Harriman’s Oscar...
Directorial debut and Oscar Nominated short The After from Misan Harriman is a visceral look at the traumatic nature of grief and the power of acts of empathy. The already well established...
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An Unexpected Pregnancy Forces a Single Mother to Cross State Lines in Nazrin...
The overturning of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision last year immediately saw devastating consequences for so many and ignited British born, California based filmmaker...
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Gabriel Caste’s ‘Are You Awake?’ Explores the Debilitating Nature of...
As we languor in the doldrums of a wet, grey and dispiriting February, the motivation to get out of bed and take our place in society, whatever that may be, can feel like an insurmountable challenge....
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A Shared Loss Forges an Unlikely Bond in Lasse Lyskjær Noer’s Oscar Nominated...
A morgue is not often a place associated with laughter or new beginnings but Danish filmmaker Lasse Lyskjær Noer’s Oscar nominated dark comedy Knight of Fortune (Ridder Lykke) is a refreshingly...
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