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Nostalgie

Based on Wendy Erskine’s original short story, director Kathryn Ferguson returns to DN and dissects the tonal shift in her Belfast-set drama debut Nostalgie, where a washed-up '80s one-hit-wonder's hope of reliving his glory days curdles into a claustrophobic nightmare when a forgotten b-side sparks an uproarious reaction.

Tortured Artist

Thomas Laurance talks to us about exorcising years of creative paralysis and the false tyranny of needing to be brilliant by making Tortured Artist—a gleefully crude rotoscoped satire where a clown embodies every artist's self-doubt.

Macchina Continua

What happens when an investment fund threatens a 13th-century paper mill? Filmmaker Ruben Gagliardini's Local Bizzarro produced documentary short Macchina Continua answers with intimate portraits, worker voices, and traditional hand-drawn animation on paper. This is zero-kilometer cinema as resistance.

The Bull

In his marital drama short The Bull set on a decaying Belgian farm where a couple exist in suffocating silence, director Victor Nauwynck introduces a virile bull to service the cows—and in so doing, cracks open their calcified relationship in the most transgressive way imaginable.

A Festival Tale

When knitwear brand &Daughter commissioned director François Larpin to create their Christmas focused campaign film, he responded with A Festive Tale—a gloriously absurd and visually lush triptych in which a woman prepares for Christmas while a sheep wanders, inexplicably, through her home.