Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet returns from the grave as a depressed immortal vampire living off of blood and impunity. Chile’s infamous dictator Augusto Pinochet returns from the grave in Pablo Larraín’s latest unconventional biopic, El Conde (…) Continue Reading »

Ahead of its UK release in the Autumn, here’s our review of Our River…Our Sky (aka Kulshi Makoo in Arabic), Iraqi filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi’s most recent feature film. Enjoy your summer, everyone! Set in Baghdad in 2006, specifically (…) Continue Reading »

The Emerging Filmmakers Night Short Film Festival’s Final Deadline for submissions is TODAY! EFN are are a disability friendly festival with screenings and events accessible to the d/Deaf and HoH community and a BIFA qualifying festival for the (…) Continue Reading »

Asmae El Moudir won the best director prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard for Kadib Abyad (The Mother Of All Lies) A story about forgotten history and buried secrets unravels when a young girl realises she only has one picture from her childhood (…) Continue Reading »

"Wajib" is a masterfully crafted film that unfolds with subtle brilliance, leaving a profound impact on its audience. Set in the Palestinian city of Nazareth within Israel, the story follows Shadi and his father, Abu Shadi, as they hand-deliver (…) Continue Reading »

Under the Fig Trees opens in rural Tunisia; we see a glorious blue sky streaked with hues of reddish yellow. It is the dawn of a new day, but it is also an immediate introduction to a key theme of the film - freedom. The camera slowly brings us (…) Continue Reading »

“It’s a love story” – this was the conclusion of an audience member after the screening of “Blue Caftan”, Maryam Touzani’s latest film, at the Garden Cinema in early May. And indeed, it is a love story, but quite a surprising and complex one, (…) Continue Reading »

At the end of Memory Box, Alex (Paloma Vauthier) films her mother Maia (Rim Turki) at a party on her smartphone, panning out to capture the sun rising on the city skyline. It’s a new technology of image capture, itself caught by the digital (…) Continue Reading »

In this episode, journalist and film critic Leila Latif talks about her coup de coeur pick from a season of Arab women filmmakers at the Garden Cinema in London - Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum. We talk about the importance of the film, its sensitive (…) Continue Reading »

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 below and a link to the post-screening Q&A (…) Continue Reading »