Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival [JAEFF producer George Crosthwait picks his three favourite Japanese films currently available on streaming platforms in the UK. Visitor Q – Mubi First up is something thoroughly deranged. (…) Continue Reading »

More top picks from our team. Here are Tommy’s Netflix recommendations. Fartsa Fartsa TV series Trailes-HD with sub from Sreda Production Company on Vimeo. A smart, vibrant Russian drama series about a young group of friends in the Soviet Union, 1961 - exploring the phenomenon of Fartovska, the act of illegally buying and selling foreign goods and currency. This particularly Soviet (…) Continue Reading »

La suite de nos recommandations de films, séries et documentaires à voir en ligne, en attendant des jours meilleurs. Validé - MyCanal et avec Canal+ Séries Clément, aka Apash, défie Mastar, le boss du rap game, lorsqu’il highjack son Planète Rap sur Skyrock. Son freestyle surprise en fait la nouvelle star du rap, en même temps qu’il déchaîne la jalousie de ses rivaux… Validé chronique (…) Continue Reading »

Documentary Weekly As unfortunate and disruptive as the Covid-19 outbreak has been for the film industry, the resulting boom of online releases will be welcomed by cinephiles around the world. On March 20th, Alla Kovga’s highly anticipated « (…) Continue Reading »

During this hopefully short-lived period of confinement, we’ll bring you some new releases, old gems and freebies that are now available on streaming platforms or video on demand to help distract us all from our currently precarious financial and emotional conditions. We’ll post 2 or 3 titles at a time, starting with these recent releases: Bacurau - MUBI Bacurau is a small, isolated and (…) Continue Reading »

What better time to unearth this early short by Canadian director Denis Villeneuve? In the midst of the supermarket hording that is quickly characterising these end times, Netflix is showing Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform, whose obscene (…) Continue Reading »

Spending his last night as a civilian in his dream-like local tennis club, Michael, a young British soldier confronts a glimpse of the near future waiting for him on the other side of the night. Video interview to come... An Arabian Night is a dreamy huit-clos with an out-of-time quality reminiscent of Jim Jarmusch’s Night On Earth. Through the tale of this improbable encounter, much like (…) Continue Reading »

Halima, a Sudanese woman living in Egypt, works as a henna painter. On a regular working day, she goes to one of Giza’s local areas to prepare a bride for her wedding. Her seven-year-old daughter Ward accompanies her and starts to wander around and discover the place. A well-structured narrative short and an impressive debut from Egyptian director Mostafa Morad, whose camera work and (…) Continue Reading »

Four-O-Five, the film, is about an un-named man in an un-named town, who has lost everything, including the love of an un-named girl because of an un-named sin committed by him at some point. Here’s our video interview with the director and actor Dhaananjay Talwade. There is a beautifully poetic quality to your film, and also a sense of loss and regret. What do you hope the audience will (…) Continue Reading »

Ziad, a Palestinian day labourer, is denied entry into Israel for work that day. Not wanting to return home empty handed after promising his daughter meat for dinner, he needs to get creative. Trump’s latest meddling in the region has effectively left many if not most Palestinians feeling hopeless. The title of this short is a nod to the Oslo Accords that ended up dispossessing them of more (…) Continue Reading »