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5 février 2019
ClermontFF2019 Turbine by Alex Boya
par Abla KandalaftInterview in French by the Brasserie du Court team with filming from ARFIS students.
Serait-il correct de voir dans votre film une analogie avec l’impact des nouvelles technologies qui ont tendance à s’immiscer considérablement dans nos vies, au détriment des relations que nous tissons avec les gens ?
Oui, la manière dont la technologie s’est installée dans nos vies nous a changés. (...) Lire la suite »
9 January 2019
Short of the week: Sorry I Drowned by Studio Kawakeb and MSF
by morrisThe animation Sorry I Drowned was broadcast on BBC Arabic’s film programme Cinema Badila last week.
This 6-minute animated film “Sorry I Drowned”, created by the Beirut-based Studio Kawakeb and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), is inspired by a letter allegedly found on the body of someone who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea due to the prevailing cynical politics of our day.
The film (...) Continue Reading »
23 December 2018
Short of the Week: 6 Miles Out - One Day in the Life of Gaza Fishermen
by morrisThis week’s film was one of the highlights of the 2018 edition of the Bristol Palestine Film Festival. 6 Miles Out is a short doc offering an intimate and authentic encounter with a group of fishermen in Gaza as they set out at dawn and follows (...) Continue Reading »
30 November 2018
Deptford double-bill from the London Migration Film Festival
by Abla KandalaftRevenir by David Fedele and Kumut Imesh
Revenir is an immensely valuable film. Now living in France, Kumut Imesh, a refugee from the Ivory Coast, teams up with filmmaker David Fedele to retrace his journey through African and into Europe. (...) Continue Reading »
15 November 2018
Short of the Week - The Postman by Vahid Keshavarz
by Mydylarama teamThis award-winning short is now being show at the London Migration Film Festival (2018). Contact us if you’d like to find out more about the film or the director. Continue Reading »
15 November 2018
Double-bill from the London Migration Film Festival 2018
by Kai EllisThe Postman by Vahid Keshavarz
Vahid Keshavarz’s documentary short The Postman profiles Hadi, an Iranian poet living in London and working as a postman. There is a quiet dignity to Hadi as he goes about his round, scribbling his verses as (...) Continue Reading »
29 October 2018
Q&A with Michael Oswald, director of The Spider’s Web, Britain’s Second Empire
by Mydylarama teamThe Spider’s Web, Britain’s Second Empire is a thoroughly researched, well-crafted and documentary by Michael Oswald that explores the history of Britain’s tax havens and the system that encouraged their creation rooted in its colonial history. The documentary is freely available on Youtube. We caught up with Michael for a Q and A.
What motivated you to direct a documentary about this (...) Continue Reading »
25 October 2018
Possum
by Kai EllisPOSSUM is the debut feature film from writer/director Matthew Holness, co-creator and writer/star of the cult TV series Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Following its successful World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Irish (...) Continue Reading »
16 October 2018
Young and Alive / L’Epoque at LFF 2018
by Abla KandalaftYoung and Alive is not quite an apt translation of the original title of this film, L’Epoque, which in its subtitles has been translated as the more accurate "our times". Director Matthieu Bareyre was keen to stress this during the Q&A (...) Continue Reading »
16 October 2018
Akasha at LFF 2018
by Abla KandalaftMaking the most of the seasonal break in the conflict in Sudan, when the heavy rains and mud make it impossible to fight, filmmaker Hajooj Kuka enrolled the dwellers of a village in the Nuba Mountains to make this offbeat comedy that celebrates the resilience and spirit of those village communities.
Following an argument with his exasperated girlfriend Lina, Adnan legs it out of the (...) Continue Reading »