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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

24 November 2014

Timbuktu - BFI London Film Festival 2014

by Abla Kandalaft
Cannes favourite Timbuktu is Abderrahmane Sissako’s depiction of the Malian city’s brief occupation by Ansar Dine militias in 2012. Kidane, a Tuareg , has settled with his wife, daughter and a young shepherd he looks after, in the dunes just outside Timbuktu, hoping to steer clear of the invading jihadists. They live in relative peace, herding cows, until Kidane confronts a fisherman (…) Continue Reading »
22 November 2014

Court de la Semaine/Short of the Week: Slomo - Josh Izenberg

by Elise Loiseau
“Gentleman, we’re ready to skate.”: le court de la semaine est un documentaire aux vertus quasi thérapeutiques. Philosophie de vie, celle de Slomo, ex-chirurgien qui a tout plaqué pour devenir skateur à plein temps à San Diego. Un film qui (…) Continue Reading »
22 November 2014

Horse Money- BFI London Film Festival

by Jack Wormell
Creased whispers that fold out of mouths shrouded in darkness. One of the most aurally tactile films I have seen in a long time; a lady, Vitalina, only speaks in whispers, of past tragedies and celebrations. Monolithic black consumes an entire two thirds of the frame, as Ventura, a man imprisoned or hospitalised or sectioned, wanders empty. The Cape Verdian immigrants in this film-poem (…) Continue Reading »
15 novembre 2014

Court de la semaine - SPECIAL GREENHORN : Sandyman - Ed Chappell

par Lucile Bourliaud
Documentaire ensoleillé du tout jeune réalisateur Ed Chappell, Sandyman a gagné le Young Greenhorn Film Award, qui lui permet de faire partie de la compétition officielle du Greenhorn short film festival, présentée demain soir à Londres. Lire la suite »
15 November 2014

Short of the Week SPECIAL GREENHORN: Sandyman - Ed Chappell

by Lucile Bourliaud
“Sandyman” Geoff is a well known amongst the locals. Every day, he spends hours drawing patterns in the sand only for the high tide to wash them away in the evening. Sandyman from Ed Chappell on Vimeo. Like its protagonist, this short doc is (…) Continue Reading »
12 November 2014

Hector and his search for hapiness (Or how British films suck donkey balls)

by Tony Hickson
9 November 2014

Short of the Week - FIFIB 2014 - La Fugue - Jean Bernard Marlin

by Elise Loiseau
Jean Bernard Marlin’s La Fugue, one of eight shorts selected at the International Bordeaux Independent Film Festival’s 2014 edition, eschews caricature and condenscension, the two most common pitfalls of films about delinquency. Initially, (…) Continue Reading »
9 novembre 2014

Court de la semaine - FIFIB 2014 - La Fugue - Jean Bernard Marlin

par Elise Loiseau
Le regard que les journalistes et les cinéastes portent sur la délinquance est rarement juste. Sa représentation est toujours délicate, parce que son traitement ne souffre pas la caricature, et le risque de sonner faux, ou, pire encore, (…) Lire la suite »
1er novembre 2014

Court de la semaine : La Femme Côtelette - Mariette Auvray

par Lucile Bourliaud
Portrait fouillis mais attachant d’une bourgeoise émancipée, La Femme Côtelette est un documentaire qui revient sur le parcours de Mme Alexandre, de jeune épouse soumise à mamie gouailleuse. Lire la suite »
25 octobre 2014

Court de la Semaine/Short of the Week special FIFIB : Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe de Caroline Poggi et Jonathan Vinel

par Elise Loiseau
Cette semaine, honneur au vainqueur de la compétition courts métrages du Fifib, Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe, réalisé par Jonathan Vinel et Caroline Poggi. 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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