We’re always keeping tabs on directors who have been featured on the YDA blog, and wouldn’t you know it they just keep surprising us. Anyway, here’s a couple of new films from old young directors that caught our eye. Enjoy!
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Folkert Verdoorn & Simon Becks: Directors with drive
shots speaks to the Gold Music Video winners on Driving Round Looking for Unknown’s tragic More…

Joachim Morre’s corrective vision: Pushing back against prison clichés
The Danish director reflects on the human-centred series that earned two Golds, and why storytelling More…

How Fiona Obertinca brought lost queer history to the screen
Director Fiona Obertinca, who won a Gold in the Film School category for her short Dandelion, talks about More…

Seeing through Leve Kühl’s eyes
UPPERFAST director Leve Kühl’s UNHCR film, Through My Eyes, picked up Gold in three categories; Changing More…

Oliver Pilemand’s lessons in love
True love never did run smooth, and the recognisable scenario in Oliver Pilemand’s YDA-winning comedy short More…

Anja Giele’s Peas of Mind
The Filmakademie Baden‑Württemberg director discusses how she sprouted the YDA‑winning stop‑motion short What was I made More…