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  • 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, the result of five directors’ efforts to piece together a heartfelt tribute to the Sudanese... 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
  • Latin American highlights - Clermont-Ferrand FF 2025: Lanawaru

    A boy learns from his grandfather how rituals in the rainforest are important to maintain the balance between humans and nature. Absolutely mesmerising and compelling film driving home the importance and urgency of the essential work carried out by indigenous communities protecting the... continue

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30 November 2018

Deptford double-bill from the London Migration Film Festival

by Abla Kandalaft
Revenir by David Fedele and Kumut Imesh Revenir is an immensely valuable film. Now living in France, Kumut Imesh, a refugee from the Ivory Coast, teams up with filmmaker David Fedele to retrace his journey through African and into Europe. With (…) Continue Reading »
15 November 2018

Short of the Week - The Postman by Vahid Keshavarz

by Mydylarama team
This award-winning short is now being show at the London Migration Film Festival (2018). Contact us if you’d like to find out more about the film or the director. Continue Reading »
15 November 2018

Double-bill from the London Migration Film Festival 2018

by Kai Ellis
The Postman by Vahid Keshavarz Vahid Keshavarz’s documentary short The Postman profiles Hadi, an Iranian poet living in London and working as a postman. There is a quiet dignity to Hadi as he goes about his round, scribbling his verses as they (…) Continue Reading »
29 October 2018

Q&A with Michael Oswald, director of The Spider’s Web, Britain’s Second Empire

by Mydylarama team
The Spider’s Web, Britain’s Second Empire is a thoroughly researched, well-crafted and documentary by Michael Oswald that explores the history of Britain’s tax havens and the system that encouraged their creation rooted in its colonial history. The documentary is freely available on Youtube. We caught up with Michael for a Q and A. What motivated you to direct a documentary about this (…) Continue Reading »
25 October 2018

Possum

by Kai Ellis
POSSUM is the debut feature film from writer/director Matthew Holness, co-creator and writer/star of the cult TV series Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Following its successful World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Irish (…) Continue Reading »
16 October 2018

Young and Alive / L’Epoque at LFF 2018

by Abla Kandalaft
Young and Alive is not quite an apt translation of the original title of this film, L’Epoque, which in its subtitles has been translated as the more accurate "our times". Director Matthieu Bareyre was keen to stress this during the Q&A (…) Continue Reading »
16 October 2018

Akasha at LFF 2018

by Abla Kandalaft
Making the most of the seasonal break in the conflict in Sudan, when the heavy rains and mud make it impossible to fight, filmmaker Hajooj Kuka enrolled the dwellers of a village in the Nuba Mountains to make this offbeat comedy that celebrates the resilience and spirit of those village communities. Following an argument with his exasperated girlfriend Lina, Adnan legs it out of the bedroom (…) Continue Reading »
19 septembre 2018

Entretien avec Amel Guellaty, réalisatrice du film Black Mamba

par Clotilde Couturier
Présenté en Sélection "Regards d’Afrique" au Festival International du Court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, "Black Mamba" est un film tunisien qui traite de l’émancipation féminine et a reçu le Prix du Public au Festival Films Femmes Méditerrannée. Lire la suite »
24 August 2018

Naila and the Uprising @DocHouse

by Abena Clarke
Naila and the Uprising was a DocHouse screening. It’s rare that a film makes me so angry that I can’t seem to describe it without a rant summarising it as ‘o the injustice!’ but that really was the effect of Julia Bacha’s film. Opening (…) Continue Reading »
18 April 2018

Interview about Fear(s) with Ilay Mevorach, director of Open your eyes

by Clotilde Couturier
"Open your eyes", directed by Ilay Mevorach, was presented in International Competition at 2018 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. The film is also produced by Kobi Mizrahi, Berlinale Talent. Continue Reading »
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Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan : ce que signifie écouter

En l’espace de quatre ans, le réalisateur philippin a imposé son style grâce à ses courts métrages intimes et lumineux. Révélé en France en 2021 par le Festival du court métrage de (…)
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Film and event! Bella Ciao: Song Of Rebellion - An exhaustive and rousing doc about the revolutionary anthem

London audiences were able to watch the film at our screening at the Garden Cinema on 25 April, which was followed by a Q&A with the directors, hosted by journalist Steve Topple. See pictures (…)
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    Power Station screening in Falkirk

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  • 29 September

    Beirut’s iconic “Le Colisée Cinema” is reopening

    The historic Le Colisée Cinema in Beirut, one of the city’s oldest cinemas, which was founded in 1945 is reopening its doors thanks to the volunteers at the Tiro Association for Arts (TAA) who rehabilitated five cinemas in Beirut, as well as in South and North Lebanon. For inquiries about the (…)
  • 18 September

    From the Margins to the Stars: Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest Unfolds in London

    Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest is currently running across East London, with standout screenings including Celestial Bodies & Other Space Oddities (Fri 19 Sept, 9pm, Rich Mix) - a cosmic shorts programme followed by a filmmaker Q&A; I Still Hold The Rock You Gave Me (Sat 20 Sept, (…)
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