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28 January 2021
Q&A with Bastien Dubois, director of Souvenir Souvenir
by Clotilde Couturier
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 »
28 January 2021
The Viewing Booth - Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s thought experiment
by Abla Kandalaft
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 »
22 January 2021
Winter Edition Line-Up!
by Mydylarama team
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 »
19 January 2021
Our Picks + Women In Body Horror
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Georgina Allan
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 Alice Lowe’s Prevenge and their representations of women as complex protagonists (…) Continue Reading »
4 January 2021
Our picks + Antebellum & Century Of The Self
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Tom Barlow
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. The Adam Curtis documentary analyses how Freudian theories are used for ideological (…) Continue Reading »
17 December 2020
Mank: David Fincher’s Xanadu
by George CrosthwaitSomething 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 »
14 December 2020
Our Picks + The Imposter & Little White Lie
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
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 »
10 December 2020
Chat with actress Yiga Gaolou - Damage Control, Channel 4 Random Acts
by Alma, Mydylarama team
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 »
30 November 2020
Our Picks + The Last Blackman in San Francisco & One Man And His Shoes
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
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 »
23 November 2020
Caveat - A strong horror debut by Damian McCarthy
by Abla Kandalaft
A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
I took a punt on this offering whilst browsing this year’s Leeds International Film (…) Continue Reading »