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Posted on 9 January 2019
Short of the week: Sorry I Drowned by Studio Kawakeb and MSF
by morrisThe animation Sorry I Drowned was broadcast on BBC Arabic’s film programme Cinema Badila last week.
This 6-minute animated film “Sorry I Drowned”, created by the Beirut-based Studio Kawakeb and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), is inspired by a letter allegedly found on the body of someone who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea due to the prevailing cynical politics of our day.
The film illustrates the migrant-rejection crisis from the eyes of the migrants taking the Mediterranean route. It (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 23 December 2018
Short of the Week: 6 Miles Out - One Day in the Life of Gaza Fishermen
by morrisThis week’s film was one of the highlights of the 2018 edition of the Bristol Palestine Film Festival. 6 Miles Out is a short doc offering an intimate and authentic encounter with a group of fishermen in Gaza as they set out at dawn and follows them throughout the day and night, when they unavoidably become the target of Israeli military ships, hurling threats and warning shots, pushing them back towards the coast and away from the more plentiful supply of fish. The boats are restricted to 6 (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 30 November 2018
Deptford double-bill from the London Migration Film Festival
by Abla KandalaftRevenir 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 his current residency status still dangerously precarious, Kumut heads back to Africa alone, camera in hand.
And thus starts a truly brave, audacious and very risky endeavour that gives the viewing public in Europe the chance to see what that (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 15 November 2018
Short of the Week - The Postman by Vahid Keshavarz
by Mydylarama teamThis 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 »
Posted on 15 November 2018
Double-bill from the London Migration Film Festival 2018
by Kai EllisThe 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 come to him on Royal Mail delivery cards, fearful of forgetting them later on. Hadi doesn’t talk of fleeing Iran, but rather of coming to London to follow his wife as she undertook a post-graduate course in 2004. We see him contemplatively take a (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 29 October 2018
Q&A with Michael Oswald, director of The Spider’s Web, Britain’s Second Empire
by Mydylarama teamThe 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 topic? Who are you hoping this expose will reach in particular?
I looked at documentaries about tax havens (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 25 October 2018
Possum
by Kai EllisPOSSUM 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 Premiere at the Galway Film Festival, POSSUM screened at Frightfest in August and will be released in cinemas on 26 October. Continue Reading »
Posted on 16 October 2018
Young and Alive / L’Epoque at LFF 2018
by Abla KandalaftYoung 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 session that followed the screening at the London Film Festival.
The documentary had made its debut in Locarno and this was only its second screening. The first sequence is a series of still shots of French emblems and assorted images of political (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 16 October 2018
Akasha at LFF 2018
by Abla KandalaftMaking 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 leaving behind Nancy, his beloved AK-47. He ends up running into Adsi, who’s dodging the Kasha, the (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 19 septembre 2018
Entretien avec Amel Guellaty, réalisatrice du film Black Mamba
par ClotildePrésenté 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. Continue Reading »
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