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Natalia Brammen
Mar 17, 2021
Clown [Shane O'Neill, Republic of Ireland/UK, 2021]
The American film critic and theoretician, Bill Nichols, once said that non-fiction stories could be about almost anything.
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Melody Chan
Mar 16, 2021
Whitewater [Tom Hamilton, UK, 2020]
A mystical woman, a redhead full of curls, walks out of the sea onto the shore with waves patting her legs...
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Adam Donald
Mar 16, 2021
Library [Kaveh Kanani, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2020]
Library (Fingils) is a short, sweet, and simple animation from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Set in a world inhabited by animals...
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Sharleen Opia
Mar 16, 2021
Close Away [Miguel Ángel Cardona, Spain, 2020]
Close Away (Cerca de Lejos) illustrates the evolving nature of human sexual interactions; highly topical in an age of physical isolation...
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Rron Bekteshi
Mar 15, 2021
Bobby [Natalie Gavin, United Kingdom, 2020]
Natalie Gavin’s emotional debut film Bobby portrays an exhausted construction worker undergoing a mental crisis.
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Jordon Briggs
Mar 14, 2021
Caged Bird [Dana Dajani/Rami Kanso, Jordan, 2021]
In Caged Bird, an animated music video written and directed by Dana Dajani, a woman takes a stand against her lover’s possessive behaviour,
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Sarthak Kaul
Mar 13, 2021
Zhwan [Kaveh Jahed, Iran, 2019]
Kaved Jahed’s Zhwan is a subtle but scathing social commentary on gender inequality, sexism, and regressive patriarchal mores...
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Will Whitehead
Mar 13, 2021
Fish Legend [Toni Silvennoinen, Finland, 2019]
As Fish Legend opens, we are immediately struck by Silvennoinen’s use of colour. The drab environment of the man’s building is...
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Fung Ying Cheng
Mar 13, 2021
Redman [Harry Oddie, UK, 2021]
Harry Oddie’s Redman reimagines a very particular hero identity. Perhaps as a subversion of the superheroes that have crept up in film...
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Will Whitehead
Mar 12, 2021
Rut [James Henson, UK, 2017]
James Henson’s Rut reimagines Tales of the Unexpected for the oppressive world of 21st-century finance.
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