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  • DJ in the Territories - a Palestinian short film project fighting...

    Support A DJ in the Territories! This film project was submitted to the Films of Resistance collective as a potential recipient of future screening profits. Anyone in the world can put on a film chosen from the FoR database and after covering their costs are encouraged to contribute to the... continue
  • Ghost in the Machine - Absolute must-watch deep dive into so-called AI

    Writing for the Sundance Institute website, Erik Adams calls Valerie Veatch’s Ghost in the Machine "the scariest movie playing at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival". He’s not wrong. It’s not only scary, it’s also rage-inducing. Veatch traces the red line that links the current "AI " tools and the... continue
  • Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2026

    Europe’s largest (and the world’s second largest) film festival back, nestled in the heart of France’s wild, volcanic region of the Massif Central. Its international competition, made up of 12 programmes of shorts, is one of the richest platforms for storytelling from around the world. The... continue
  • Arab picks from LFF 2025

    Aside from our recently reviewed Palestine 36, the BFI London Film Festival marked the festival run tailend for a number of films from the Arab world. Highlights include Erige Sehiri’s Promised Sky, a rare, necessary, and beautifully dramatised account of migrant women from the Ivory Coast living... continue
  • Palestine 36 - Harrowing and all too rare retelling of the...

    Palestinian cinema is distinctly prolific. The more efforts are made to erase Palestinians as a people and Palestine as a slice of West Asian land, the more urgent the storytelling becomes. 2025 has already seen a number of much hyped premieres and releases, but the novelty this year seems to be... continue

Most recent articles

30 January 2022

Interview with Pablo Serret de Ena, director of Useless Opera Singers

by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde Couturier
An unknown force pushes a man to a place of extraordinary characteristics in the high Arctic. In its limits, is where he may find the answer. Between an introspective adventure and the poetry of the absurd. How much are you related to (…) Continue Reading »
30 January 2022

Interview with Marin Gérard, director of À l’ombre l’après-midi

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
A seemingly ordinary day in the life of Quentin, a Parisian film-lover. After going to the cinema twice, he runs into a former college friend, listens to a girls’ conversation in a bar, then goes and meet his best friend, has a beer, and ends up (…) Continue Reading »
29 January 2022

Interview with Assaad Khoueiry, director of A Broken Fan

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
Adel, a desperate jobless father, gets out on the streets of Beirut hoping for change. Can you tell us more about the conditions that have led your protagonist to take action? When you are the only breadwinner in your family and you have to (…) Continue Reading »
29 January 2022

Interview with Fan Sissoko, director of On the Surface

by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde Couturier
Ada goes swimming in the Icelandic sea and reflects on raising a child in a country that feels nothing like home. As she enters the freezing water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy. Soon her swimming eases. Facing her fears is helping her (…) Continue Reading »
29 January 2022

Interview with Julien Regnard, director of Night Watch

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
A couple rushes out of a glamorous party. On their way home, an argument leads to a brutal car accident. When George regains consciousness, Christina has disappeared. He will then experience a real descent into hell. Where did you get the idea (…) Continue Reading »
28 January 2022

Interview with Gabriel González Acosta, director of Concertina

by Brasserie du Court team
Concertina is an interlocking narrative film that jumps between parallel realities as two sets of brothers discuss their dreams of one another. The film explores themes of ecology, family, and labor using magical realism as a narrative device to (…) Continue Reading »
28 January 2022

Interview with Anne-Sophie Bailly, director of La Ventrière [The Midwife]

by Brasserie du Court team
In the French Jura mountains, at the end of fictitious Middle Ages, Else is an herbalist and a midwife. With Nicole, her young apprentice, they are disturbed during their daily practice: a stranger riding a horse demands to gather all the women (…) Continue Reading »
28 January 2022

Interview with Olivier Bayu Gandrille, director of TNT

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
During the 2005 French riots, four young students from the banlieu on the outskirts of Paris hear about an old urban legend: that of Paupaul, the rapist of the woods, who would attack young people from poor neighborhoods to keep them away from (…) Continue Reading »
26 January 2022

Interview with Steven Fraser, director of Prosopagnosia

by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde Couturier
Filmmaker Steven Fraser lives with prosopagnosia, otherwise known as ‘face blindness’, which means he can’t remember or recognize faces. In this film he uses animation to convey what this means to him. How did you get to know prosopagnosia? (…) Continue Reading »
25 January 2022

Interview with Lila Pinell, director of Le roi David

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
Shana is looking for a job, she needs cash to leave France and her wrong crowd. But the past she’s looking to forget is never far. Besides, does she really want to put it behind her? What gave you the urge to tell Shana’s story? Are some of the (…) Continue Reading »
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Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan : What it means to listen

In the space of four years, the Filipino director has made his mark with his intimate and luminous short films. Discovered in France in 2021 at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, he has (…)
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7 Activist documentaries available for free

The UCLA Film Archive just announced that 7 activist documentaries that are now freely available to access and stream for students, academics, and others. This update was shared through the (…)
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Latest news

  • 25 September

    Mexican Film Festival in Paris - October 2026

    Viva Mexico kicks off in a few weeks in the heart of Paris. The fourteenth edition of the festival celebrating the country’s cinematic landscape will be held at the Luminor cinema from 6-12 October. The festival presents an eclectic and diverse programme of films, Q&As, panels and (…)
  • 14 August

    The Battle of Algiers: Anti-Imperialist Film Club

    Ileana Chan (Global Majority for Peace) and Asa Winstanley (Electronic Intifada) review their top picks and rate their anti-imperialist credentials... Second up is classic doc The Battle of Algiers.
  • 28 July

    Behind the CIA’s overthrow of Iran’s Mossadegh - Coup 53 screenings in August

    This month sees another London run of the 2019 film Coup 53, now more topical than ever: With Iran and the world once again on the brink, COUP 53 feels less like history and more like a warning. In 1953, a military coup led by British MI6 backed by the CIA overthrew Iran’s democratically (…)
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