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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

Most recent articles

30 January 2023

Leo Blandino on Bitume at the Brasserie

by Clotilde Couturier
On his way to England for an urgent transport, Merlin, an exhausted 50-years-old driver, begins to hear haunting voices from the back of his locked truck. An impressive mix of grit and poetry drives the miserable, heart-wrenching fate of migrant (…) Continue Reading »
29 January 2023

Interview with Trinidad Plass, Titouan Tillier and Isaac Wenzek, co-directors of Ressources humaines

by Clotilde Couturier
Very amusing and highly inventive animation around the themes of recycling and reincarnation! What was the starting point for the inspiration of the film? Are you particularly fond of certain objects? We based the film around the theme (…) Continue Reading »
29 January 2023

Joséphine Darcy Hopkins on Les Dents du bonheur

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
The chirpy tone and cute child actors certainly belie a cruel madness at the heart of this ballsy and fun short, in which a children’s play date reveals darker power dynamics. Continue Reading »
29 January 2023

Sasha Argirov on his film Nurture at the Brasserie

by Abla Kandalaft
An emotionally stunted man reckons with the deep-rooted resentment that he harbors for his ailing mother. A surprisingly and impressively beautiful film given the dark and complex subject matter. Why did you choose this title in particular? (…) Continue Reading »
28 January 2023

Claudia Bottino on A Trois / The Three Of Us

by Brasserie du Court team, Elise Loiseau
Julien, 30, visits his daughter Cléa, 6, whom he has not seen for a while. While the child looks for his attention, Julien makes every effort to come home to Lucie, Cléa’s mother. This time he will stay. A touching short with impressive character (…) Continue Reading »
28 January 2023

Yann Gonzalez at the Brasserie - Clermont Film Festival 2023

by Brasserie du Court team
Musician Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame, and blood. A three-part queer horror movie that features songs from Sim’s highly-anticipated debut album _Hideous Bastard_. Director Yann Gonzalez talks to us at the Brasserie du Court about his new short Hideous. Café court / Short Talk - Yann Gonzalez from ClermontFd Short Film (…) Continue Reading »
23 January 2023

Haunted by unspoken grievances and abuse - The Shining in context

by Robin W. Mac
The Shining was shown at The Garden Cinema as part of their Jack Nicholson season. The film was followed by an in-depth discussion with Professor Roger Luckhurst, writer of The Shining: BFI Film Classics and hosted by Mydy’s Abla Kandalaft. The (…) Continue Reading »
22 January 2023

SPOTLIGHT ON... Baghdad Messi, 2012

by Mydylarama team
SPOTLIGHT ON... Iraq 2009. Ten-year-old Hamoudi has only one leg, but is totally obsessed with football. He and his friends - like the rest of the world - are looking forward to the Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester (Messi versus Ronaldo). But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down! Kurdish-Belgian director Sahim Omar Kalifa’s award-winning short is ruthlessly (…) Continue Reading »
21 January 2023

Fragments Of A Dream - marking the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup

by Mydylarama team
A group of people come together in the Welsh town of Machynlleth to produce [El Sueño Existe->https://elsuenoexiste.wordpress.com/about-us (The Dream Lives On), a festival of politics and culture. This is the subject of Pablo Navarrete and (…) Continue Reading »
30 décembre 2022

Accompagner un film dans son exploitation : la distribution chez Manifest

par Abla Kandalaft
Nous avons eu le plaisir de discuter avec Anais Colpin, coordinatrice et chargée des ventes chez [Manifest Pictures->http://www.manifest.pictures de son parcours, de son rôle et des stratégies de distribution de courts métrages. Hello Anais. Peux-tu nous parler un peu plus de ton rôle en tant que distributrice ? A quoi ressemble une journée type ? La distribution de courts métrages arrive (…) Lire la suite »
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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

  • 4 December

    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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