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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 September 2022

The Place That Is Ours - Zena Agha & Dorothy Allen-Pickard

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
We interviewed the duo for the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, as part of the Brasserie Du Court. A daughter returns to her father’s village in Palestine, which was destroyed in 1948. She journeys through unfamiliar landscapes and is confronted with the reality of her own exile. The film is a moving, experimental and exhaustively researched journey into the displacement and (…) Continue Reading »
6 July 2022

Interview with Ezequiel Salinas and Ramiro Sonzini, co-directors of Mi Última Aventura (My Last Adventure)

by Clotilde Couturier, Elise Loiseau
A poor young man decides to cease to be so, and along with his friend, he tries to flee with a bag full of money from his boss. The last night in his hometown is the two friend’s review, in the form of a farewell, of the places, the emotion and (…) Continue Reading »
24 June 2022

Revisiting 2017! The Art Of Loving / Get Out

by Coco Green, Ola Magdziarek
Coco Green and Ola Magdziarek review a couple of cinematic highlights from 2017: Maria Sadowska’s The Art Of Loving, which tells the story of Polish sexologist Michalina Wislocka who fought for her book to be published in the late 1970s, and (…) Continue Reading »
21 June 2022

Interview with Annette Westwood, director of This Little Girl

by Alma, carrie
A mother with a substance misuse issue, has to prove herself on her path to recovery, to prevent her child from being taken away from her and placed into care. We chat here with director Annette Westwood. Where did the idea come from? Can you (…) Continue Reading »
14 May 2022

Q&A with Philip Ilson, director of the London Short Film Festival

by Abla Kandalaft
More Q&As! As Coco Green gets stuck in the final chapters of her PhD, we take a break from our usual format to publish Q&As and whatever audio output we fancy. To mark our partnership with the Clermont-Ferrand International Film (…) Continue Reading »
11 May 2022

Interview wih Katherine Propper, director of Birds

by Brasserie du Court team, Elise Loiseau
Moments in the lives of Austin teenagers in the heat of Texas summer. How was Birds born? I wanted to make this film, in part, to explore my creative process. My last short film involved a local community of young people whom I spent time (…) Continue Reading »
29 April 2022

Interview with Sander Joon, director of Sierra

by Elise Loiseau
Parents often push their children to follow their steps. In this case, the father’s obsession with the rally turns the kid into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director’s childhood, Sierra takes us into the surreal car racing world. What (…) Continue Reading »
29 April 2022

Q&A with Rich Lucano, aka Phondupe

by Abla Kandalaft, Eddy Durnan
Phondupe is the musical outfit of Sydney artist Rich Lucano. His ambient tunes and evocative soundscapes found quite a following amongst restless, locked-in listeners during Covid. His masterful sampling of everyday sounds picked up during his (…) Continue Reading »
29 April 2022

Q&A with Rich Lucano, aka Phondupe

by Abla Kandalaft, Eddy Durnan
We sent a bunch of questions to ambient music maestro Phondupe, who kindly recorded his answers. We thought we’d upload the audio as part of our podcast while we’re on a short break from our usual format! The written article is here. Continue Reading »
18 April 2022

Q&A with Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi, directors of Le Voci Sole (Lonely Voices)

by Mydylarama team
Following a spate of successful shorts - the excellent Magic Alps caught our attention at Clermont-Ferrand - Italian filmmaking duo Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi, and regular collaborator producer Andrea Italia, are back, this time with their (…) 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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