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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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1 February 2015

Interview with Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun- Clermont- Ferrand Film Festival

by Clotilde Couturier
In partnership with Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, let’s have a drink at the "Brasserie du Court" : now discussing "The last of the Frenchmen" with Director Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun. Continue Reading »
20 January 2015

Selma

by Coco Green
MLK was vilified during his life, martyred after his death and has proved more valuable dead than alive. Now his words are hijacked to support everything from conservative ’individual responsibility’ initiatives to sales during his birthday celebration weekend. Making a film which captured the violence and resilience of the moment without resorting to clichés was almost as impossible as it (…) Continue Reading »
15 January 2015

Court- Lion of the Future Award Winner Venice IFF

by Judy Harris
In Chaitanya Tamhane’s impressive debut Court the mounting tension and increasing urgency of so many legal dramas are replaced by a beautiful but melancholic futility. The film meanders through the endless legal battles which the Indian state has (…) Continue Reading »
12 January 2015

Short of the week- Mallets/Gong Close Up

by Judy Harris
From its very beginning cinema has been exalted for its ability to reveal the secret life of objects, enabling us to access a hidden reality inaccessible to our senses. As the early film theorist Jean Epstein put it- “We say ‘red’, ‘soprano’, ‘sweet’, ‘cypress’ when there are only velocities, movements, vibrations”. Joanne Woolgar’s companion films Mallets and Gong Close Up put these (…) Continue Reading »
12 décembre 2014

Les héritiers

par Clotilde Couturier
« Les héritiers » : la revanche du noir de cité. « Les héritiers » est un film de Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar sur une idée originale d’Ahmed Dramé, qui offre une vision différente du jeune de banlieue en échec scolaire et prône la technique éducative de l’autonomie collaborative. Lire la suite »
6 December 2014

Short of the Week: BEAT by Aneil Karia

by Elise Loiseau
Shot in London in 16 mm and on a micro-budget, BEAT has cemented director Aneil Karia’s reputation as one of the most promising British filmmakers on the “short” circuit. The film, declared “one to watch” by Screen Daily, was picked up by most major film festivals in Britain and around the world. Essentially, BEAT is about the all-pervasive and inherent loneliness and chaos of life in big (…) Continue Reading »
6 décembre 2014

Court de la semaine : BEAT by Aneil Karia

par Elise Loiseau
Cette semaine, la choregraphie aussi effrayante qu’hypnotisante d’un homme en transe dans les rues du nord de Londres. Une danse qui évoque aussi bien le désespoir, l’euphorie, que la folie. Auto-produit et tourné en 16 mm, BEAT est poétique et (…) Lire la suite »
5 December 2014

Crocodile- Grand Prize winner Tokyo FILMeX

by Judy Harris
Set in the Agusan marshlands of the Phillipines Crocodile is an attentive depiction of the daily life of a family who suffer the death of their young daughter Rowena (Jolina Espana) after she is attacked by a crocodile. The film is based on the (…) Continue Reading »
30 November 2014

Short of the Week: Travellers into the night - Ena Sendijarevic

by Lucile Bourliaud
Travellers into the night, Ena Sendijarevic’s have seduced the festivals around the world. Continue Reading »
30 novembre 2014

Court de la semaine : Travellers into the night - Ena Sendijarevic

par Lucile Bourliaud
Travellers into the night, premier film d’Ena Sendijarevic, séduit les festivals autour du monde et nous entête grâce à son thème musical et la subtilité de sa mise en scène. Lire la suite »
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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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