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A new short film from Alice Rohrwacher is getting a release through Disney+

by Charles Bramesco

The 37-minute Le Pupille joins a group of rebel­lious young­sters spend­ing the hol­i­days at their board­ing school.
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Watch Symbiosis, an animated short film about sex and jealousy

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The French-Hun­gar­i­an co-pro­duc­tion, made by artist Nad­ja Andra­sev, is on the longlist for this year’s Oscars.
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A new film programme challenges perceptions of fat bodies

by Hannah Strong

Curat­ed by Grace Bar­ber-Plen­tie, Refram­ing the Fat Body allows plus size peo­ple to exist with­out judge­ment or limitation.
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Watch this powerful new film about white guilt and Black womanhood

by Leila Latif

Soma­lia Seaton’s A Response to Your Mes­sage is a per­son­al reflec­tion on this year’s Black Lives Mat­ter protests.
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Watch an eerie new short film made entirely in lockdown

by Hannah Strong

Film­mak­er Sam O’Mahony explains how he utilised the resources at hand to make I Don’t Find Any of This Very Peaceful.
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Descend into madness with a new animated short from David Lynch

by Charles Bramesco

Antlered mon­strosi­ties, float­ing worms – just anoth­er day in Lynchland.
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David Lynch grills a monkey in a new short on Netflix

by Charles Bramesco

It’s your basic hard-boiled cop inter­ro­ga­tion, except with a pri­mate and an exper­i­men­tal master.
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At last, everyone can see Jonathan Glazer’s eerie new short

by Charles Bramesco

Masked fig­ures per­form a rit­u­al most sin­is­ter in the six-minute miniature.
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Watch this collection of six short films about Black Britain

by Little White Lies

Dis­cov­er new work by excit­ing young tal­ent cour­tesy of Ran­dom Acts and Chan­nel 4.
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Queer Cinema

Six of the best new LGBTQ+ short films from around the world

by Ronan Doyle

This year’s Iris Prize Film Fes­ti­val in Cardiff show­cased emerg­ing trends across the spec­trum of queer cinema.
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Watch this beautiful short film about a father trying to find his son

by Adam Woodward

My Boy is the lat­est micro-bud­get dra­ma from British writer/​director Char­lotte Regan.
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Meet the next generation of genre filmmakers

by Ben Robins

By tack­ling real-world issues, these tal­ent­ed direc­tors are deliv­er­ing big ideas on minus­cule budgets.