The film is set in a village in Nagaland in 1963. It follows the life of a father and his son, the last ones to convert to Christianity in their village. The film follows their struggle to hold on to their tradition and religion. Café court / Expresso Video - Theja Rio from ClermontFd Short Film Festival on Vimeo. The film is in International Competition (I3 programme). Continue Reading »

What was your thought process over the years about the desire or need to address this topic, which touches your inner circle as well as the narrative of National History? Hello, so first of all thank you for this interview and thank you for (…) Continue Reading »

In a lab-like location, Maia Levy, a young Jewish American woman, watches videos portraying life in the occupied West Bank, while verbalizing her thoughts and feelings in real time. Director Alexandrowicz once again explores and denounces the (…) Continue Reading »

The EFN short film festival winter edition is nearly upon us! Given the roaring success of the last few live-streamed events, the team is once more adopting their winning formula and showing carefully curated early shorts from first time and (…) Continue Reading »

This week, we are joined by Georgina Allan, film editor for the Radical Art Review to talk about women in horror, specifically focusing on Julia Ducournau’s Raw and their representations of women as complex protagonists and instigators of (…) Continue Reading »

We are joined once again by Tom Barlow, chair of The Media Fund and host of the show News Club UK, to discuss the 2002 documentary series The Century of the Self.. Antebellum is a 2020 American thriller film written and directed by Gerard Bush (…) Continue Reading »

Something is troubling David Fincher. Despite his multiple Oscar nominations, the consistent box office returns that keep the studios purring, and the cult fandom generated by his dark and twisty thrillers, something is gnawing at him. He hasn’t done his “Hollywood” picture. And really, how do you expect to be taken seriously as a white male American auteur without a handsome and lightly (…) Continue Reading »

Before we introduce our picks, we quickly shoehorn in one last point about last week’s Three Identical Strangers...This week’s top picks include Aaron Sorkin’s historical legal drama The Trial Of The Chicago Seven, and Najwa Najjar’s Palestinian (…) Continue Reading »

Yiga was recently seen in short film Damage Control, part of Channel 4’s Random Acts: Black History Month. We caught up with her over the phone to chat about her career, networking opportunities and finding work through Instagram during (…) Continue Reading »

New fortnight, new episode. Abla’s picks of the week are the brilliant, creepy horror debut Caveat by filmmaker Damian McCarthy and Palestinian film Western Arabs, a chaotic, powerful and very personal look at the impact of displacement, by (…) Continue Reading »