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  • 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
  • In Vermiglio, the cold bites but it also keeps you alive.

    1944. Wartime Italy. Icebound village. Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio (2025) is truly an exquisite winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Grand Jury. The slow-burn family saga unspools the glimpses of joy swallowed by the void of war. It has the essence of a memoir with the period film rooted in the... continue
  • Sophia Carr-Gomm on Return

    Sophia Carr-Gomm is the director of short film Nobody’s Darling, which we reviewed when it screened at the London Short Film Festival. She has more recently directed Return. How has the reception and journey of Nobody’s Darling impacted your career going forward? Have they afforded you certain... continue

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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 »
25 January 2022

Interview with Carlos Segundo, director of Sideral

by Brasserie du Court team, Elise Loiseau
In Natal, on the Brazilian coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with children near the space center, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons. Have you ever dreamt of flying or going into space? I’ve personally never wanted to go to space. Perhaps I’m a bit curious. What attracts me to space is its (…) Continue Reading »
24 January 2022

Interview with Marthe Sebille director of Que La Bete Monte

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
After a bus accident in the middle of nowhere, Lupa decides to tag along with another passenger, Alban, who is determined to reach the nearest village on foot. Crossing through fields and rivers, they slowly go off-course in a strange forest. (…) Continue Reading »
20 January 2022

Interview with Morad Mostafa, director of Khadiga

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
Khadiga, a young mother of 18 lives alone with her baby after her husband left for work in a remote city; in an ordinary day she makes her way through the hustle of Cairo streets to do some visits where she feels uncomfortable with the (…) Continue Reading »
27 November 2021

Q&A with Sari Katharyn, director of THE SAPPHO PROJECT: FRAGMENT 147 - EFN AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER

by Mydylarama team
With dozens of translations of Sappho’s words recorded by queer women from all over the world, we celebrate the fragment’s poignant reflection on memory and legacy. With animation reflecting the evolution of art movements, we pay tribute to queer (…) 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

  • 19 February

    Gaza Eyewitnesses at SOAS

    London Palestine Film Festival presents ’Gaza Eyewitnesses’, a film by Palestinian artists based on testimonies from Gaza. This screening is followed by a Q&A with Hossam Al Madhoun, theatre maker, writer and child protection specialist, chaired by Jonathan Chadwick, Director of Az (…)
  • 23 January

    Online screening: The Hidden War on Palestinian Women: Checkpoint Diaries

    This Saturday 24 January, Palestine Museum US is screening the documentary "The Hidden War on Palestinian Women: Checkpoint Diaries, by Balasan Initiative for Human Rights." Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EST; 18:00 Euro pe; 19:00 Palestine; 17:00 UK; 05:00 New Zealand; running time, 14 (…)
  • 21 January

    Thawra Archive curated programme for LSFF

    Thawra Archive has curated a programme for the London Short Film Festival : The Anti-Narrative of a Finished Decolonization: The Colonial Present in Cinema and Sound. This will take part over two days: on 24 January, at the ICA and on 2 February at ActOne, both in London. The programme will (…)
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