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The film is set in a village in Nagaland in 1963. It follows the life of a father and his son, the last ones to convert to Christianity in their village. The film follows their struggle to hold on to their tradition and religion.
Café court / Expresso Video - Theja Rio from ClermontFd Short Film Festival on Vimeo.
The film is in International Competition (I3 programme). Continue Reading »
28 January 2021
Q&A with Bastien Dubois, director of Souvenir Souvenir
by Clotilde
What was your thought process over the years about the desire or need to address this topic, which touches your inner circle as well as the narrative of National History?
Hello, so first of all thank you for this interview and thank you for allowing our films to be seen at this time! It’s a difficult question because that’s what the film is all about – why and how I wanted to make this film about my relationship with my grandfather, formerly a conscripted soldier in Algeria. First of all, I (...) Continue Reading »
28 January 2021
The Viewing Booth - Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s thought experiment
by Abla Kandalaft
In a lab-like location, Maia Levy, a young Jewish American woman, watches videos portraying life in the occupied West Bank, while verbalizing her thoughts and feelings in real time.
Director Alexandrowicz once again explores and denounces the injustices faced by Palestinians living under occupation this time in a clever experimental process whereby he aims to capture the viewer’s emotional and verbal responses to a series of videos - many of them shot by Jerusalem-based human rights NGO (...) Continue Reading »
22 January 2021
Winter Edition Line-Up!
by Mydylarama team
The EFN short film festival winter edition is nearly upon us! Given the roaring success of the last few live-streamed events, the team is once more adopting their winning formula and showing carefully curated early shorts from first time and emerging directors. Once more, two prizes are up for grabs: the audience award and the critics’ prize. Judges this time around are Mydy’s [Abla Kandalaft->https://www.ablakandalaft.com, Genesis Cinema’s [Christina (...) Continue Reading »
19 January 2021
Our Picks + Women In Body Horror
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Georgina Allan
This week, we are joined by Georgina Allan, film editor for the Radical Art Review to talk about women in horror, specifically focusing on Julia Ducournau’s Raw and their representations of women as complex protagonists and instigators of violence (as opposed to helpless victims or mindless monsters).
We mention Jordan Peele’s Us, Marina De Van’s In My Skin and Don’t Look Back and others.
Picks of the week include Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s mind warping, beautiful Synchronic and (...) Continue Reading »
4 January 2021
Our picks + Antebellum & Century Of The Self
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Tom Barlow
We are joined once again by Tom Barlow, chair of The Media Fund and host of the show News Club UK, to discuss the 2002 documentary series The Century of the Self..
Antebellum is a 2020 American thriller film written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. While beautifully shot, Antebellum fails in its attempt explore the sociopathy of the white slaveholding class—mainly because the story isn’t set in a slave society. The film can’t come to (...) Continue Reading »
Something is troubling David Fincher. Despite his multiple Oscar nominations, the consistent box office returns that keep the studios purring, and the cult fandom generated by his dark and twisty thrillers, something is gnawing at him. He hasn’t done his “Hollywood” picture. And really, how do you expect to be taken seriously as a white male American auteur without a handsome and lightly satirical peek behind the soundstage. Look around you. Scorsese has made Aviator, Tarantino has Once Upon a (...) Continue Reading »
14 December 2020
Our Picks + The Imposter & Little White Lie
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Before we introduce our picks, we quickly shoehorn in one last point about last week’s Three Identical Strangers...This week’s top picks include Aaron Sorkin’s historical legal drama The Trial Of The Chicago Seven, and Najwa Najjar’s Palestinian road trip festival hit Between Heaven And Earth.
We discuss the utterly bonkers documentary The Imposter, in which an Algerian-French young man in Spain claims to be a 16-year-old Texan, who’d been missing for 3 years, and Little White Lie, the story of (...) Continue Reading »
10 December 2020
Chat with actress Yiga Gaolou - Damage Control, Channel 4 Random Acts
by Alma, Mydylarama team
Yiga was recently seen in short film Damage Control, part of Channel 4’s Random Acts: Black History Month.
We caught up with her over the phone to chat about her career, networking opportunities and finding work through Instagram during lockdown.
Find her on Instagram! Continue Reading »
30 November 2020
Our Picks + The Last Blackman in San Francisco & One Man And His Shoes
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
New fortnight, new episode.
Abla’s picks of the week are the brilliant, creepy horror debut Caveat by filmmaker Damian McCarthy and Palestinian film Western Arabs, a chaotic, powerful and very personal look at the impact of displacement, by Omar Shargawi, as both films are reviewed on here!
Our festival to watch out for is Documenta.
We focus on two feature films:
Joe Talbot’sThe Last Black Man in San Francisco (2020), an engaging documentary that came out in October and is now (...) Continue Reading »
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