"The Lift-Off Film Festival was created by James Alexander and Ben Pohlman back in May 2011 as a way to showcase many of the work being created by exceptional artists who didn’t have the funds to rent high tech equipment or buy themselves onto a (…) Continue Reading »

Established in 2003, The Romanian Film Festival is in its 9th year and is continuing to bring the best of Romanian films to a wider audience. Periferic (aka. Outbound) is the debut feature film from the New York based Romanian filmmaker Bogdan (…) Continue Reading »

The Romanian Film Festival in London brings an extraordinary line-up of new and exciting films, between 22- 25 November 2012, at Curzon Renoir Cinema - Wednesday, November 07, 2012 Profusion International who are behind the festival are also the people behind the Profusion Crime Series, a collection of crime writing from Eastern Europe. The films are screened at the Renoir Cinema, London (…) Continue Reading »

Chang-Min Choo and Seung-Ryong Ryu Byung-Hun Lee During the 17th century Joseon Dynasty, comic performer Ha-Seon (Korean star Lee Byung-Hun) is recruited as a double for King Gwanghae (Lee) who’s been targeted for assassination. On 20 October 2012, "Masquerade" passed 10,000,000 million admissions in South Korea, becoming only the 8th film to ever do so. Continue Reading »

The London Korean Film Festival 2012 kicked off with a screening of mega-hit crime caper The Thieves. Director Dong-Hoon Choi pulled out all the stops, casting the most bankable starts from the region, shooting in Macao, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Busan. On 2 October 2012, "The Thieves" passed "The Host" (13 million) to become the best selling South Korean film. In order to pull off the perfect (…) Continue Reading »

Tony Hickson reviews the Expendables 2 poster. Tony is the editor of Meat Plough magazine "the journal of transgressive poetry". Continue Reading »

Director Andrey Gryazev’s underground hit Tomorrow was screened at the BFI London Film Festival. Embedding himself in the Russian performance art / activist collective known as "Voina" (war in Russian), Gryazev charts the controversial group’s (…) Continue Reading »

Comment plus de 35 ans de lutte du peuple Sahraoui ont-ils mené au tout premier soulèvement du Printemps Arabe ? Dernière colonie d’Afrique, le Sahara Occidental voit depuis 35 ans sa population coupée en deux. D’un côté, les Sahraouis vivent sous l’occupation marocaine, sans aucune liberté d’expression et confrontés à la violente répression du régime ; de l’autre, plus de 165.000 réfugiés (…) Lire la suite »

Cyberconte, projet pour l’émergence des cultures numériques africaines et voyage à vélo, de la ville à la brousse, des déserts géographiques aux déserts numériques, du high tech au système D. Lire la suite »

Rendez-vous le jeudi 20 septembre à 20h au cinéma Le Nouveau Latina, pour la projection du film Nosotros del Bauen, suivie d’un débat animé par Altermondes, avec le réalisateur Didier Zyserman, Alix Margado de la Confédération générale des SCOP (…) Lire la suite »