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21 May 2016
The Hateful Eight
by PierreApparently now well at ease with the genre, Quentin Tarantino, three years after his reinterpretation of Django, is back with a good, old-fashioned manly western. But if his previous output paid homage to spaghetti westerns, this new effort is (...) Continue Reading »
9 May 2016
FRAME: THE LONDON DANCE FILM FESTIVAL - PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED!
by Mydylarama teamThe full programme for the upcoming FRAME: THE LONDON DANCE FILM FESTIVAL 9-12 June is out!
Taking place in Kingston-upon-Thames, the festival is presented by UK’s pioneering dance company BalletBoyz in association with dancescreen. FRAME showcases talent in dance, film and choreography, and will screen 122 films over the three days, premieres, new releases and classic films, alongside (...) Continue Reading »
13 April 2016
Bessie
by Coco GreenGet ready for booze, explicit sex, and a love triangle. Essentially a blues story, but also so much more. Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens) reportedly spent the better of a decade trying to get this film made. However the film doesn’t appear to (...) Continue Reading »
11 April 2016
Q&A with Les Parasites
by Abla KandalaftLes Parasites saw the light just over a couple of years ago, when friends Bastien Ughetto, Guillaume Desjardins and Jérémie Bernard decided to team up and take part in the 48h film challenge, which they went on to win. Since then, they’ve (...) Continue Reading »
11 mars 2016
Court de la semaine : Dernière porte au sud - Sacha Feiner & Chloé Morier
par Elise LoiseauAprès le Festival Anima et le Festival international du film francophone de Namur, le Festival international du court-métrage de Clermont-Ferrand récompense à son tour le court d’animation Dernière porte au sud, en lui décernant le Prix de la meilleure animation en compétition internationale.
Dernière porte au sud est l’adaptation de la BD du même nom de Philippe Foerster, initialement (...) Lire la suite »
1 March 2016
Ave Maria - Oscars 2016
by Ryan OrmondeA short film directed by a Palestinian has been nominated for an Oscar this year. Ave Maria is a humorous story about a Jewish family who crash their car outside a small convent of five Arab nuns. For a film set in the present day West Bank, this film is as light as you could imagine, yet it still has a relevant message about the unnecessary restrictions imposed by strict adherence to (...) Continue Reading »
1 March 2016
Q&A with Nina Gantz, dir. of Edmond at Clermont 2016
by Clotilde CouturierWe met up with Nina Gantz, whose film Edmond is screening at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, as part of the International selection.
Edmond is an animated short film dealing with twinless twin Edmond and his excessive desire for love, which overtakes his social relations.
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Clotilde Couturier, our correspondent at the 2016 Clermont Ferrand international short film (...) Continue Reading »
28 February 2016
Short of the Week - William Walsh’s Remnants - 100 Hour Film Race
by Mydylarama teamThis week, we’ve picked William Walsh’s Remnants as our celebrated short. The winner of the 2015 100 Hour Film Race, Remnants is a simple, yet effective short film addressing issues of mental health and male suicide, through which are subtly weaved that year’s specific requirements. The theme was "mistaken identity", the prop, a mask and the action, drinking out of a straw. Walsh and his top (...) Continue Reading »
17 February 2016
Short of the Week - Glenn Paton’s H Positive - Clermont 2016
by Mydylarama teamGlenn Paton’s H Positive has recently gone live!
”If you had a prolonged terminal illness and money was no object, would you manipulate euthanasia so that you could die on your own terms?
This story examines how the protagonist Mark uses his wealth to help create a euthanasia roller coaster. A roller coaster so powerful, it causes cerebral hypoxia, thus suffocating your brain ensuring a (...) Continue Reading »
17 February 2016
Q&A with Glenn Paton, dir. of H Positive at Clermont 2016
by Abla Kandalaft"If money was no object, would you manipulate euthanasia so that you could die on your own terms?" Glenn Paton’s visually impressive H Positive is screening at Clermont-Ferrand 2016.
Where did the idea come from?
I went to an art exhibition and I saw a small A2 image of a roller coaster called ’the death coaster’ created by Julijonas Urbonas. I thought that it would be a great starting (...) Continue Reading »