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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

Most recent articles

13 September 2020

Our Picks + Waves

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Matt Howsam
This week we are joined by Matt Howsam, a production coordinator in the VFX industry and a film critic. We mention the hilarious and highly original One Cut Of The Dead by Shin’ichirô Ueda, a Japanese Zombie comedy in the style of some of the (…) Continue Reading »
7 September 2020

Our Picks + Pablo Navarrete (No Extradition)

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
This week, Coco and Abla interview documentary filmmaker and journalist Pablo Navarrete. Pablo’s latest film No Extradition is a record of the campaign of support for Julian Assange who is facing extradition to the US. He also follows John (…) Continue Reading »
24 August 2020

First edition of the Independent Iraqi Film Festival

by Abla Kandalaft
Oline and entirely free to watch, the Independent Iraqi Film Festival brings us features, shorts and discussions, shedding a spotlight on a thriving cinematic culture in the country and among the Iraqi diaspora. IA: Israa Al-Kamali AH: Ahmed (…) Continue Reading »
19 August 2020

Our Picks + Black Is King (Special Guest)

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, George Crosthwait
For this episode of Mydylarama’s Top Picks podcast, we’re joined by our guest, academic, film programmer and Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film Festival producer George Crosthwait. George Crosthwait. George’s pick of the week, and also (…) Continue Reading »
5 August 2020

Our Picks And American Horror Story: Apocalypse

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Another fortnight, another episode! We start with our picks and move on to a discussion about American Horror Story: Apocalypse (S8, 2018). As huge horror fans, we’ll have other episodes down the line in this genre.... Coco’s Top Pick is (…) Continue Reading »
21 July 2020

Our Picks And The Staircase

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
In this episode, we discuss our picks of the fortnight and focus on true crime documentary The Staircase and the issues that it brings up. The Dark finale was definitely a highlight, a truly gripping series, with twists and turns as bonkers as (…) Continue Reading »
9 July 2020

Top 5 on Netflix - The Black Middle Classes

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Mydy’s second podcast! It’s the second part Secorro’s look at the Netflix Black Lives Matter collection and associated films. We’re still tinkering with tech and format. Other episodes will feature discussions with more back and forth, as well as (…) Continue Reading »
3 July 2020

Interview with Louis Chan, director of Stationary

by Abla Kandalaft
Louis won the Audience Award at the June Emerging Filmmakers Night live-streamed event for his short film Stationary. EFN partner Mydylarama interviewed him the following day, giving him an opportunity to talk at length about his work. Stationary won the Audience Award for the Bottled-Up edition. The characters in Chan’s short are fully-rounded, three-dimensional and fully engaging to watch. (…) Continue Reading »
3 July 2020

Interview with Emma Gilbertson, director of Crashing Waves

by Abla Kandalaft
Emma won the Critics’ Award at the June Emerging Filmmakers Night live-streamed event for her short Crashing Waves. EFN partner Mydylarama interviewed her the following day, giving her an opportunity to talk at length about her work. Crashing Waves won the Critics’ Award for the Bottled Up edition, more on which can be found here. Crashing Waves manages to convey a complex relationship (…) Continue Reading »
2 July 2020

Top 5 Black Lives Matter on Netflix

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Our first Mydylarama podcast begins with this top 5 from Secorro Green. She lists her Netflix picks of the last 2 weeks that address issues around Black lives and identity - The "King Richard" episode of Trial by Media; Murder to Mercy: 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

  • 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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