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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, 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
  • 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

Most recent articles

13 January 2017

Q&A with Treasa O’Brien, director of Noor at Mytlini Port - LSFF2017

by Anne-Sophie Marie, Mydylarama team
Treasa O’Brien is a Ireland and London-based filmmaker whose works (doc and narrative) ‘explore art politics, poetry, social change, the individual and the collective, ecstatic truth, storytelling, reality, the usual.’ Her film Noor at Mytlini (…) Continue Reading »
9 January 2017

SWISS 2016 OSCARS ENTRY SPECIAL SCREENING: IRAQI ODYSSEY

by Abla Kandalaft
“A personal, insightful and beautifully made film” Huffington Post “One of the most breathless documentaries in recent memory” The Village Voice The film will be presented for the first time in the UK at a special screening in partnership with the Iraqi Association on Thursday, January 12th 2017 at Rivercourt Methodist Church at 6:30pm. A UK digital release will follow, date TBC. Press (…) Continue Reading »
23 December 2016

LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2017 PROGRAMME

by Abla Kandalaft
‘THIS IS HAPPENING WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION’ (“Her Jazz”, Huggy Bear, 1992) London Short Film Festival (LSFF) - 6-15 January - has announced its 2017 programme. According to the organisers: "This year’s festival mantra comes from Huggy Bear’s 1992 single Her Jazz, one of the rare UK representatives of riot grrrl in the early nineties. Based on the song’s ethos ‘this is happening without your (…) Continue Reading »
21 octobre 2016

La Sociale

par Clotilde Couturier
« La Sociale » est un film à ne pas manquer, pour les questions qu’il pose comme pour les vérités qu’il nous fait connaître, mais aussi pour sa ferveur envers ce qui est l’une de nos plus belles réussites dans le sens où elle allie la sécurité de tous avec la solidarité de chacun : la Sécurité Sociale, notre assurance du droit à vivre dignement. Lire la suite »
5 October 2016

Q&A with Roger Carvalho, Founder of Snoovies

by Anne-Sophie Marie
Snack Movies and Life Online If you make or watch short films, you should be familiar with Snoovies by now. Created in 2013 by three London actors (Roger Carvalho, Karsten Huttenhain and Viana Maya), this free App showcases quality short films (…) Continue Reading »
24 septembre 2016

Rencontre avec Leyla Toprak, réalisatrice de Uzak mı...

par Clotilde Couturier
Clotilde Couturier, correspondante au festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, échange avec Leyla Toprak, réalisatrice et chorégraphe du film "Uzak mı ..." ("Dûr e..." / "Distant..."). "Uzak mı..." a reçu la « Mention Spéciale du Jury » en Compétition Internationale au Festival de Clermont-Ferrand 2016. Clotilde Couturier, correspondante au festival international du (…) Lire la suite »
3 July 2016

Short of the Week - GIRL.LONDON.NIGHT - Filmic Pro Winner

by Abla Kandalaft
This week’s short comes to us courtesy of film collective Reframed, whose eerily beautiful GIRL.LONDON.NIGHT, written by and starring Reframed member Claire Gordon-Webster, has just won the Best Female Filmmaker award at the Filmic Pro Tangerine Dreams Contest competition. The contest, now in its second year and named after feature film Tangerine, that was shot entirely on an iPhone, (…) Continue Reading »
1 July 2016

Q&A with Yony Leyser, dir. of Desire Will Set You Free, at the East End Film Fest

by Anne-Sophie Marie
What drew you to filmmaking? I got into a lot of trouble as a teenager. A counsellor suggested that my mom find me a creative outlet so I started practising theatre and photography. Then after a couple of years, I combined the two to make (…) Continue Reading »
30 June 2016

Q&A with Adrian Tanner, dir. of Redistributors, at the East End Film Fest

by Anne-Sophie Marie
What was your background in film prior to Redistributors? I started out as an editor and got indulgently trained at the BBC in Bristol on wildlife shows with David Attenborough. Then moved to London and cut a lot of TV. What sparked the idea (…) Continue Reading »
30 June 2016

Q&A with Daniel Fitzsimmons, dir. of Native, at the East End Film Fest

by Anne-Sophie Marie
I gather your background is a mix of Liverpool and California? How have both environments influenced you and your work on Native? (And does Liverpool produce better alien beaches than LA?) In my experience Los Angeles and Liverpool are (…) Continue Reading »
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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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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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Latest news

  • 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 (…)
  • 4 December 2025

    Power Station screening in Falkirk

    Power Station has been garnering rave reviews and much traction on the indie distribution circuit. Next stop is Falkirk: Organised by Polmont Community Hub & Friends of the Earth Falkirk, the screening will be followed by a discussion around power transition - a fun, convivial screening (…)
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