Shorts
Reviews, previews and highlights of features and shorts from the myDylarama team and guest writers.
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Q&A with Ruth Hunduma - Director of The Medallion - LSFF & Clermont-Ferrand 2024
26 January 2024, by Abla Kandalaft, Elise LoiseauA single piece of jewellery holds the story of generations. Director Ruth and her mother go back to Ethiopia and explore her mother’s story as a survivor of the Red Terror genocide. A remarkable and ambitious documentary by Ruth Hunduma. By revisiting her own family’s trajectory and a dark chapter in Ethiopia’s history, the film serves as a powerful act of remembrance and the need to transmit this knowledge and acknowledgement to future generations. The short will also be part of the (…) -
Q&A with Beth Rowland, director of Bury The Dogs - Clermont-Ferrand 2024
25 January 2024, by Mydylarama teamA coming of age drama about the cracks that form in childhood friendships, the vulnerability of youth and the frailty of parental figures. Avoiding didacticism and cliches, Beth Rowland shares a thoughtful, nuanced and well-told story depicting how far-right thoughts and ideals can take root in specific contexts. An impressive early short carried by a solid cast. The film will be shown at the International Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2024. What gave you the impetus to tell (…) -
Q&A with Elham Ehsas, director of Yellow - Clermont-Ferrand 2024
22 January 2024, by Mydylarama teamIn Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and face an uncertain future. OSCAR-shortlisted and BAFTA-longlisted film "Yellow" is a beautiful, sensitive and intimate glimpse into one Afghan woman’s experience of navigating rules that have such wide-ranging repercussions for her bodily autonomy. Elham Ehsas, an actor born in Kabul but living in London since the age of 10, has a real eye for aesthetics, and demonstrates an (…) -
Queer joy, in all its beautiful, glorious power! Remy Enceladus on “Straight Girl”
9 April 2023, by Laura Lee“Straight Girl” is a short documentary which focuses on Remy Enceladus, their acceptance of their own identity and discovery of sexuality and gender presented in stage persona and music. This film delves deep into a multitude of emotive topics and it feels as though Remy is learning this along with us. There is a sense of humour throughout the film that surrounds the deeper content, and a sincerity and honesty about how it is to live with the fragility of someone who, on the face of things, (…) -
The unwelcoming side of Britain: Beru Tessema on Lions
20 March 2023, by Brasserie du Court team, Elise LoiseauRosie, a Congolese teenager, who’s recently arrived in London, discovers the unwelcoming side of life in Britain when a misunderstanding with two window cleaners escalates into conflict. Lions is having quite the successful festival run. Well deserved, for this prescient and rousing short by London-based Beru. The short will be screened as part of a special programme of Clermont highlights in London at the Garden Cinema, in partnership with the festival team and Mydylarama! The Brasserie (…) -
Retour sur mon premier court : Laura Goncalves
9 mars 2023, par Brasserie du Court team, Mydylarama teamA l’occasion de l’édition 2023 du Festival de Clermont-Ferrand, nous avons discuté avec la réalisatrice Laura Goncalves dont le court La Quadrature du Cercle avait fait partie de la sélection de 2015 pour en savoir un peu plus sur son parcours depuis et ce que lui a apporté cette présence au festival. Parlez-nous de votre premier court-métrage sélectionné à Clermont-Ferrand. Quel était le sujet ? Le court-métrage La Quadrature du Cercle a été sélectionné pour la 37ème édition du Festival (…) -
Jawahine Zentar on Sur la tombe de mon père #ClermontFF23
23 February 2023, by Elise LoiseauWe interviewed French filmmaker Jawahine Zentar about her short film heart-felt Moroccan-set Sur la tombe de mon père (On My Father’s Grave) selected in the 2023 National Competition (F1 programme). -
Interview with Binghan Lin, director of The Trapped Pig
9 February 2023, by Abla KandalaftThe Trapped Pig tells the almost surreal story of a Wuhan truck driver, who is travelling home for the Chinese New Year with a precious boar, being trapped in one-person quarantine zone at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of my two comedy coups de coeur of Clermont-Ferrand 2023. The Trapped Pig is both totally absurd and at times very much laugh out loud. With skilful comedic timing, Lin Binghan tells a story that’s also full of heart and compassion for its trapped (…) -
Richard Misek on his short A History of the World According to Getty Images
9 February 2023, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamA keen video essayist, Richard Misek’s work involved endlessly googling archive images. In 2018, he noticed that the download function had been disabled on Google. He dug deeper and found out that Getty Images had threatened to sue Google. The more he looked, the more Richard noticed that Getty had their logo imprinted everywhere and the scope of their reach became clear to him. This very cleverly edited short film questions the proprietary ownership of images from our collective history and (…) -
Isabella Margara on her short Nothing Holier than a Dolphin
5 February 2023, by Brasserie du Court team, Elise LoiseauTwo fishermen find a Dolphin accidentally caught in their nets. The Dolphin, on its turn, finds a fisherman drowning in the water and tries to save him. More myths and legends as inspiration at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival! This time, they come to us from Greece and through the lens of Isabella Margara in an astoundingly original short that one member of the audience loudly claimed was "the best film he’d seen this year!"