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What If

Leaving December 31 • 28m

Directed by Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini • 2012 • United Kingdom
Starring Noel Clarke, George Sargeant, Pauline Pearce

Rudyard Kipling’s famed poem “If—” is updated for the streets of contemporary London in this hip-hop-inflected urban fantasia shot in stylish black and white.

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