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Film - Jul 04, 2025 Best of Raindance Film Festival 2025

We crown the best of the fest, as decided by...well...us!

by OBSCURAE & Umnia El-Neil & Nor García Grau & Santiago Guerra

Film - Jul 02, 2025 DOPPELGÄNGERS³ | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London

A totally un-self-serious deep dive into the ethics of space travel via experts, underground caves and the exploration of ancestry.

by Umnia El-Neil

Film - Jun 30, 2025 Shorts Programme: LGBTQIA+ 2 - HIGHLIGHTS | OBSCURAE @ Raindance 2025

Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood-Sucking Freak, Hands On, A Friend of Dorothy, Big Bass

by Nor García Grau & Jett Christie

Film - Jun 30, 2025 Shorts Programme: Animation | OBSCURAE @ Raindance 2025

Birth Controlled, Percebes, Larval, Have I Swallowed Your Dreams, There Will Be No Other End

by Nor García Grau & Jett Christie

Film - Jun 30, 2025 Student Showcase HIGHLIGHTS | OBSCURAE @ Raindance 2025

The filmmakers of the future, in their element (and some familiar names too!)

by Umnia El-Neil

Film - Jun 28, 2025 The Academy | OBSCURAE @ Raindance 2025

This looking glass into the experiences of Art students in Munich pulls no punches.

by Umnia El-Neil

Sweet and Short - Jun 27, 2025 Sweet and Short: Marrow (Dir. Jay T. Grimes)

What makes 'Marrow' stand out is not just its subject matter (fear of ageing is rarely portrayed with this kind of visceral immediacy or violence) but its style.

by Shea Marshall

Sweet and Short - Jun 27, 2025 Sweet and Short: Pizzaslice (Dir. Carl Johan Holmboe Dahl)

'Pizzaslice' is an excellent piece for an easy character study with a slight plot twist. It’ll make you feel pity and make you smile. It is vulnerable and genuine. It is just perfectly everything I enjoy about film.

by Shea Marshall

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