Sofia

"I like the awkwardness of holding a shot because I feel you are there with a character, feeling it in real time. So I knew I wasn't going to approach it with fast cuts."

A wince-inducing collision of dating app bravado, one slippery word and a salon appointment gone spectacularly wrong, Camila de Ilhéus 'Sofia' pins its screen-obsessed lead in static frames and lets the mortification build in real time.

Beneath a Mother’s Feet

"I've always trusted images because they allow for simultaneity — they can hold opposing truths at once without putting them in order."

Domestic labour repeated until the ordinary turns suffocating meets flashes of djinn-haunted dread in 'Beneath a Mother's Feet', Elias Suhail's debut short following a young mother in Morocco to the edge of an impossible decision.

Christine Sinclair: Kind of a Big Deal

"To me, it's much more a film about leadership than football. Christine represents a kind of leadership that I don't think gets talked about enough. She's not a "rah-rah" leader. She's thoughtful, she's quiet, and she just gets on with it."

Eoin Duffy returns to Directors Notes to discuss meeting the animated challenge of documenting the most prolific goal scorer in international soccer history in commissioned short film ‘Christine Sinclair: Kind of a Big Deal’.