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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

19 August 2020

Our Picks + Black Is King (Special Guest)

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, George Crosthwait
For this episode of Mydylarama’s Top Picks podcast, we’re joined by our guest, academic, film programmer and Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film Festival producer George Crosthwait. George Crosthwait. George’s pick of the week, and also (…) Continue Reading »
5 August 2020

Our Picks And American Horror Story: Apocalypse

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Another fortnight, another episode! We start with our picks and move on to a discussion about American Horror Story: Apocalypse (S8, 2018). As huge horror fans, we’ll have other episodes down the line in this genre.... Coco’s Top Pick is (…) Continue Reading »
21 July 2020

Our Picks And The Staircase

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
In this episode, we discuss our picks of the fortnight and focus on true crime documentary The Staircase and the issues that it brings up. The Dark finale was definitely a highlight, a truly gripping series, with twists and turns as bonkers as (…) Continue Reading »
9 July 2020

Top 5 on Netflix - The Black Middle Classes

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Mydy’s second podcast! It’s the second part Secorro’s look at the Netflix Black Lives Matter collection and associated films. We’re still tinkering with tech and format. Other episodes will feature discussions with more back and forth, as well as (…) Continue Reading »
3 July 2020

Interview with Louis Chan, director of Stationary

by Abla Kandalaft
Louis won the Audience Award at the June Emerging Filmmakers Night live-streamed event for his short film Stationary. EFN partner Mydylarama interviewed him the following day, giving him an opportunity to talk at length about his work. Stationary won the Audience Award for the Bottled-Up edition. The characters in Chan’s short are fully-rounded, three-dimensional and fully engaging to watch. (…) Continue Reading »
3 July 2020

Interview with Emma Gilbertson, director of Crashing Waves

by Abla Kandalaft
Emma won the Critics’ Award at the June Emerging Filmmakers Night live-streamed event. Crashing Waves manages to convey a complex relationship between its protagonists without any dialogue and in such a short amount of time. Emma doesn’t simply rely on the impressive skills of the dancers and the beautiful choreography, she uses a multitude of crafty, cinematic choices, shots and camera (…) Continue Reading »
2 July 2020

Top 5 Black Lives Matter on Netflix

by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Our first Mydylarama podcast begins with this top 5 from Secorro Green. She lists her Netflix picks of the last 2 weeks that address issues around Black lives and identity - The "King Richard" episode of Trial by Media; Murder to Mercy: The (…) Continue Reading »
22 June 2020

BOTTLED-UP! The 7 finalists of the next EFN event - 29 June 2020

by Mydylarama team
Emerging Filmmakers Night is back with another live-streamed film event on 29 June via the official Facebook page’s a very erudite, film-based musing on the concept by EFN team member Ben Plumb. Very much worth a read! GET YOUR FREE TICKETS (…) Continue Reading »
15 June 2020

Short of the Week: Reclaiming Work - Countering the gig economy

by Abla Kandalaft
Cycle courier cooperatives are turning technology on the gig economy giants. "As a customer, I love the ease of Deliveroo, but I worry about the worker rights, I wish there was a worker-owned alternative," says a commentator on YouTube. Reclaiming Work addresses just that and should be shared far and wide. Made by Cassie Quarless and Usayd Younis of Black and Brown Film, it tells the story (…) Continue Reading »
4 June 2020

Emerging Filmmakers Night - Q&A with Paul Frankl

by Erifili Missiou
Paul is a London based writer and director. His short films have screened at festivals around the world, including Tribeca, Palm Springs, Rhode Island, the Iris Prize and Aesthetica and collectively have over 900,000 views online. EFN have screened his work twice: the multi-award winning ROXANNE was part of our LGBTQ+ event in July and GOLD STAR was part of our livestream event in April! (…) 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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  • 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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