SPOTLIGHT 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 »

A group of people come together in the Welsh town of Machynlleth to produce El Sueño Existe (The Dream Lives On), a festival of politics and culture. This is the subject of Pablo Navarrete and Teilo Vellacott’s short doc Fragments Of A Dream, (…) Continue Reading »

Nous avons eu le plaisir de discuter avec Anais Colpin, coordinatrice et chargée des ventes chez 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 pour compléter le travail du (…) Lire la suite »

We 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

A young drama student must reconcile the potential pros and cons of a defining lead performance act. The idea of articulating issues around coercion, consent and nudity through a theatre rehearsal creates an engaging and tightly woven short, (…) Continue Reading »