This week’s film was one of the highlights of the 2018 edition of the Bristol Palestine Film Festival. 6 Miles Out is a short doc offering an intimate and authentic encounter with a group of fishermen in Gaza as they set out at dawn and follows (…) Continue Reading »

Revenir by David Fedele and Kumut Imesh Revenir is an immensely valuable film. Now living in France, Kumut Imesh, a refugee from the Ivory Coast, teams up with filmmaker David Fedele to retrace his journey through African and into Europe. With (…) Continue Reading »

This award-winning short is now being show at the London Migration Film Festival (2018). Contact us if you’d like to find out more about the film or the director. Continue Reading »

The Postman by Vahid Keshavarz Vahid Keshavarz’s documentary short The Postman profiles Hadi, an Iranian poet living in London and working as a postman. There is a quiet dignity to Hadi as he goes about his round, scribbling his verses as they (…) Continue Reading »

The Spider’s Web, Britain’s Second Empire is a thoroughly researched, well-crafted and documentary by Michael Oswald that explores the history of Britain’s tax havens and the system that encouraged their creation rooted in its colonial history. The documentary is freely available on Youtube. We caught up with Michael for a Q and A. What motivated you to direct a documentary about this (…) Continue Reading »

POSSUM is the debut feature film from writer/director Matthew Holness, co-creator and writer/star of the cult TV series Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Following its successful World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Irish (…) Continue Reading »

Young and Alive is not quite an apt translation of the original title of this film, L’Epoque, which in its subtitles has been translated as the more accurate "our times". Director Matthieu Bareyre was keen to stress this during the Q&A (…) Continue Reading »

Making the most of the seasonal break in the conflict in Sudan, when the heavy rains and mud make it impossible to fight, filmmaker Hajooj Kuka enrolled the dwellers of a village in the Nuba Mountains to make this offbeat comedy that celebrates the resilience and spirit of those village communities. Following an argument with his exasperated girlfriend Lina, Adnan legs it out of the bedroom (…) Continue Reading »

Présenté en Sélection "Regards d’Afrique" au Festival International du Court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, "Black Mamba" est un film tunisien qui traite de l’émancipation féminine et a reçu le Prix du Public au Festival Films Femmes Méditerrannée. Lire la suite »

Naila and the Uprising was a DocHouse screening. It’s rare that a film makes me so angry that I can’t seem to describe it without a rant summarising it as ‘o the injustice!’ but that really was the effect of Julia Bacha’s film. Opening (…) Continue Reading »