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  • Interview with Sander Joon, director of Sierra

    Parents often push their children to follow their steps. In this case, the father’s obsession with the rally turns the kid into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director’s childhood, Sierra takes us into the surreal car racing world. What inspired you to make Sierra, an animation film that... continue
  • Our Picks + Crooklyn

    We’re back!! We took a couple of months’ break for me to get over the chaos of the first few weeks of having a newborn (my second - still chaotic!). We’re delighted to have Akua Gyamfi join us this week to discuss her work and her top picks. Akua is the founder of The British Blacklist, as well... continue
  • Interview with Janloup Bernard, director of J’avais un camarade [I...

    Upon his arrival at a prestigious military high school, Woyzeck, an officer’s son, meets Bakary, a student from a modest background with whom he will share a room. During a night of integration, the two boys will try to find their place in the Family, a group of influential students. Why did... continue
  • Interview with Lauriane Lagarde, director of Un corps brûlant [A...

    Lina and Inès do not know each other. Yet they have one thing in common: parkour. From roof to roof, from wall to barrier, the two teenagers observe each other from a distance, like, try to get closer. But, because they don’t want to be seen, they are constantly interrupted. What interested you... continue
  • Interview with Marian Freistühler, director of Die Geheimnisvollen...

    Ghostly, the temporarily shut down cruise ships lie in the port of Hamburg. A young man comes into town and is stranded on the riverbank, waiting for a message. He watches couples strolling along in the sunset and gets himself some sweets. In a moment of collective pause, Islands in the City... continue

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7 June 2021

Interview with Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet

by Abla Kandalaft, brasserieducourt.com, Clotilde
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 skills Charline is now deploying fully in her most recent (...) 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 lengthier recollections based on the cast’s own memories of the homes they left behind, all combined to (...) 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 focus is women as lead characters in sexually-charged noir films from the 90s to the present day - to the new spate of films that belong to what Anna calls Bubblegum Noir, using Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman Subscribe for offers at: (...) 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 the We Work "experience". We flag John Carpenter’s prescient classic They Live and the Line Of Duty finale. Support us: 💷 ko-fi.com/mydy Subscribe for offers at: mydy.link/subscribe 🎧 (...) 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 start to get confusing... Damian Draven is a production designer and director, beginning his career on (...) Continue Reading »
25 April 2021

Our Picks + One Night In Miami

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Regina King’s directorial debut starring Kingsley Ben-Adir Malcolm X, Eli Goree as Cassius Clay, Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown, and Leslie Odom Jr. Sam Cooke, is a fictionalised account of the four icons’ meeting in Miami, Fl after Clay’s first heavyweight title about with Sonny Liston. The film is based on the Kemp Powers play which imagines their one night at the Hampton House, located in Brownsville, outside of Liberty City, due to segregation laws in Miami, which was the base for Miami’s black (...) Continue Reading »
25 April 2021

Our Picks + Crip Camp

by Abla Kandalaft, Antonella Mercurio, Coco Green
This week we are joined by psychotherapist Antonella Mercurio to talk about Crip Camp and the issues around activism, aspirational and revolutionary movements and disability rights sparked by the documentary. Crip Camp (Netflix) sheds light on summer camp for teenagers with disabilities and the rights movement borne out of its pioneering set up. Top picks include horror film The Empty Man, a creepy, hugely entertaining feature released to mostly so-so reviews in 2020 but has built a bit (...) Continue Reading »
19 April 2021

Interview with Denis Dobrovoda, director of Savage

by Abena Clarke, Mydylarama team
Denis is the director of short film Savage, a dramatised account of the abhorrent but sadly little-known concept of human zoos, a practice that was part and parcel of Britain’s colonial empire. With great attention to detail and historical accuracy, Savage is an original, moving take on a phenomenon that plays an integral part in the development of modern institutionalised racism. Lead Florence Nzenwefi gives a touching and dignified performance as man cruelly uprooted from his home and (...) Continue Reading »
12 April 2021

Interview with Audrey Jean-Baptiste and Maxime Jean-Baptiste, codirectors of Écoutez le battement de nos images

by Clotilde
Is your film mainly an account that you want handed down? How did you construct the voice-over? The film is essentially tied to my desire to breathe life back into the things that disappeared when the Guiana Space Centre was set up in Kourou in the 60s. To script the voice-over, we dipped into our close networks. For example, our father’s , who’s from Guiana himself. So we were able to exchange ideas in a trusting atmosphere, which helped elicit memories. We also met people whose families’ (...) Continue Reading »
7 April 2021

Q&A with Matt Houlihan: A Brit Reacts To Bollywood

by Abla Kandalaft
We caught up with actor Matt Houlihan to discuss his lockdown venture: the very successful YouTube "reaction" series A Brit Reacts To Bollywood. Matt, who was still working right up until last year’s first lockdown - playing Uncle Vanya on stage - talks about his discovery and growing love of Bollywood and Indian cinema, his foray into reaction videos and the impact on the pandemic on his work. Matt’s top film pick for the week is White Tiger, on Netflix, about modern India and particularly (...) Continue Reading »
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Q&A with Dan Thorburn, director of Salt Water Town

Salt Water Town was part of the British and Yorkshire shorts selection at the Leeds International Film Festival. It stood out for its impressive cinematography, troubling plot and standout (...)
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Three New Documentaries To Watch Now

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. (...)
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  • 11 November 2020

    Check out Film Fest Report’s interview with...

    Check out Film Fest Report’s interview with Dieudo Hamadi, whose film “Downstream to Kinshasa” is the first Congolese film to be an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival.
  • 11 November 2020

    Doc Weekly have kindly highlighted the latest...

    Doc Weekly by Garett Bradley Boys State by Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss The Painter and the Thief by Benjamin Ree Too busy for a feature ? Too skint for a rental ? Our Short of the Week series is a curated collection of short documentaries that you can watch for free, on the go, right from our (...)
  • 22 November 2019

    Short of the Week: Baghdad Messi

    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! (...)

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