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23 January 2023
Haunted by unspoken grievances and abuse - The Shining in context
by Robin W. Mac
The Shining was shown at The Garden Cinema as part of their Jack Nicholson season. The film was followed by an in-depth discussion with Professor Roger Luckhurst, writer of The Shining: BFI Film Classics and hosted by Mydy’s Abla Kandalaft. The (…) Continue Reading »
22 January 2023
SPOTLIGHT ON... Baghdad Messi, 2012
by Mydylarama teamSPOTLIGHT ON... Iraq 2009. Ten-year-old Hamoudi has only one leg, but is totally obsessed with football. He and his friends - like the rest of the world - are looking forward to the Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester (Messi versus Ronaldo). But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down!
Kurdish-Belgian director Sahim Omar Kalifa’s award-winning short is ruthlessly (…) Continue Reading »
21 January 2023
Fragments Of A Dream - marking the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup
by Mydylarama team
A group of people come together in the Welsh town of Machynlleth to produce [El Sueño Existe->https://elsuenoexiste.wordpress.com/about-us (The Dream Lives On), a festival of politics and culture.
This is the subject of Pablo Navarrete and (…) Continue Reading »
30 décembre 2022
Accompagner un film dans son exploitation : la distribution chez Manifest
par Abla KandalaftNous avons eu le plaisir de discuter avec Anais Colpin, coordinatrice et chargée des ventes chez [Manifest Pictures->http://www.manifest.pictures de son parcours, de son rôle et des stratégies de distribution de courts métrages.
Hello Anais. Peux-tu nous parler un peu plus de ton rôle en tant que distributrice ? A quoi ressemble une journée type ? La distribution de courts métrages arrive (…) Lire la suite »
30 December 2022
Q&A with short film distributor Anais Colpin at Manifest
by Abla KandalaftWe recently chatted with Anais Colpin, Coordinator and Sales Manager at Manifest Pictures about her start in the world of distribution, her current role and short film strategy.
Hi Anais. Can you tell us more about your role in distribution? What’s an average day like?
Short film distribution takes up where the filmmaker and the producer’s work ends. At Manifest, there are 4 of us: 2 (…) Continue Reading »
9 December 2022
Nana Mensah on her work, African American directors & the Duplass school of filmmaking
by Abla Kandalaft
We were delighted to chat with Nana Mensah, director, writer and actress. Her first feature film Queen Of Glory, in which she also stars, met with much critical acclaim and was praised for its astute, unsentimental and at times downright (…) Continue Reading »
23 November 2022
Storytelling at its finest: Fadia’s Tree directed by Sarah Beddington
by Abla Kandalaft, Anne-Sophie Marie
Dreaming of a homeland she is denied, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, sets a challenge to find an ancient tree that stands as witness to her family’s existence, guided only by inherited memories, a blind man and a two-headed dragon. Sarah (…) Continue Reading »
10 November 2022
Portrait of a fallible character that doesn’t gloss over his selfishness - Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner
by Tia Garmonsway
Our writer Tia attended a screening of Mr Turner as part of the "In conversation with Mike Leigh" series of screenings at the Garden Cinema in London.
As I sat in plush comfort at The Garden Cinema, London, surrounded by creative intellectuals (…) Continue Reading »
7 November 2022
Epic in scope, carnivalesque in tone and almost unprecedented in style: A New Old Play
by Judy Harris
Set in an exquisite hand-crafted world made up of painted backgrounds, miniatures, intricate compositions and theatrical props, A New Old Play may at first strike one as sui generis. While the history of cinema is rich in hand crafted worlds and (…) Continue Reading »
20 October 2022
Genre, warehouse shoots & the "alternative" cinema of Bangladesh with Moshari’s Nuhash Humayun
by Abla Kandalaft, carrie
The end of the world forces two sisters together, inside a mosquito net, just to survive—but first they must survive each other. Moshari is a deeply atmospheric and haunting short, whose horror tropes and sense of dread only serve to amplify the (…) Continue Reading »