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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, the result of five directors’ efforts to piece together a heartfelt tribute to the Sudanese... 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

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19 August 2021

Our Picks + Slasher: Solstice

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
This week, we focus mainly on the third season of serial killer anthology Slasher, to mark the release of season 4 on Shudder. We touch on the excesses of social media, lynch mob mentality, accurate socio-economic depictions and plot twists! (…) Continue Reading »
28 July 2021

Our Picks + MLMs and On Becoming A God In Central Florida

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
We’re back! Our latest episode following our month-long break managed to bring together our regular go to topics: MLMs, cults and skincare. We discuss American series On Becoming a God in Central Florida, starring Kirsten Dunst as a low paid (…) Continue Reading »
27 July 2021

ARCHIVE SPECIAL! The Remake Film Festival

by judy
To mark our editor Judy’s return to Mydylarama after completing her epic PHD, here’s one of her older cracking reviews and an opportunity to revisit the wonderful concept behind the Remake Film Festival. As Hollywood’s fiscal calculations (…) Continue Reading »
17 June 2021

Pick of Sheffield Doc Fest - Ali And His Miracle Sheep

by Anna Dawson-Hart
Maythem Ridha’s short film Ali And His Miracle Sheep won Best Film in the UK Competition of the Sheffield Doc Fest. I feel it’s very important before you begin to read this review that you know who I am. I am not an academic, nor a seasoned (…) Continue Reading »
10 June 2021

Q&A with Zillah Bowes, director of STAYING - EFN AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER

by Abla Kandalaft
Zillah Bowes is a Welsh/English writer, director and photographer. She trained at the NFTS and has made films as a director and cinematographer, which have been shown worldwide. She won a John Brabourne Award from the Film and TV Charity in 2020. (…) Continue Reading »
7 June 2021

Interview with Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde Couturier
In light of Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s participation at this year’s Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, we thought we’d publish this interview we conducted with her in collaboration with the Brasserie du Court at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, where her short Pauline Asservie was in competition. A quirky, touching yet highly amusing little film that encapsulated the (…) Continue Reading »
7 June 2021

Short of the Week: Stones in Hand by Mo’min Swaitat

by Alexandra Olley
This week, we thought we’d highlight this wonderfully engaging zero-budget short by Palestinian director Mo’min Swaitat free to watch on Youtube. Stones In Hand is an experimental docu-fiction based on the director’s experiences and memories of growing up in Jenin City in the West Bank. It’s an interesting and rough collage of archive footage, uprisings, scenes in London, music, and (…) Continue Reading »
3 June 2021

Our Picks + Bubblegum Noir & Promising Young Woman

by Abla Kandalaft, Anna Smith, Coco Green
*We’re skipping ep 23 given the relevance of ep 24 to this month’s releases - normal service will resume in 2 weeks!* This week, our guest is Anna Smith, leading film critic and broadcaster and host of the popular podcast Girls On Film. Our (…) Continue Reading »
24 May 2021

Our Picks + We Work: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
This week, we discuss the documentary charting the rise and fall of co-working space/real estate scam We Work and its eccentric co-founder Adam Neumann. We cover the ethics of co-working spaces and their implications and the cultish elements of (…) Continue Reading »
7 May 2021

I Am An Island, dir. by Damian Draven

by Abla Kandalaft
Johnny drives home late one evening to spend time with his wife. He runs her a bath and goes to the kitchen to pour them both a glass of wine. We hear the disembodied voice of the wife shouting from the bathroom about a call from a producer whilst Johnny’s mobile is being constantly called by a woman driving and begging to speak to him. Thus begins the film’s opening sequence before things (…) 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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    Power Station screening in Falkirk

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  • 29 September

    Beirut’s iconic “Le Colisée Cinema” is reopening

    The historic Le Colisée Cinema in Beirut, one of the city’s oldest cinemas, which was founded in 1945 is reopening its doors thanks to the volunteers at the Tiro Association for Arts (TAA) who rehabilitated five cinemas in Beirut, as well as in South and North Lebanon. For inquiries about the (…)
  • 18 September

    From the Margins to the Stars: Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest Unfolds in London

    Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest is currently running across East London, with standout screenings including Celestial Bodies & Other Space Oddities (Fri 19 Sept, 9pm, Rich Mix) - a cosmic shorts programme followed by a filmmaker Q&A; I Still Hold The Rock You Gave Me (Sat 20 Sept, (…)
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