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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

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15 novembre 2014

Court de la semaine - SPECIAL GREENHORN : Sandyman - Ed Chappell

par Lucile Bourliaud
Documentaire ensoleillé du tout jeune réalisateur Ed Chappell, Sandyman a gagné le Young Greenhorn Film Award, qui lui permet de faire partie de la compétition officielle du Greenhorn short film festival, présentée demain soir à Londres. Lire la suite »
15 November 2014

Short of the Week SPECIAL GREENHORN: Sandyman - Ed Chappell

by Lucile Bourliaud
“Sandyman” Geoff is a well known amongst the locals. Every day, he spends hours drawing patterns in the sand only for the high tide to wash them away in the evening. Sandyman from Ed Chappell on Vimeo. Like its protagonist, this short doc is (…) Continue Reading »
12 November 2014

Hector and his search for hapiness (Or how British films suck donkey balls)

by Tony Hickson
9 November 2014

Short of the Week - FIFIB 2014 - La Fugue - Jean Bernard Marlin

by Elise Loiseau
Jean Bernard Marlin’s La Fugue, one of eight shorts selected at the International Bordeaux Independent Film Festival’s 2014 edition, eschews caricature and condenscension, the two most common pitfalls of films about delinquency. Initially, (…) Continue Reading »
9 novembre 2014

Court de la semaine - FIFIB 2014 - La Fugue - Jean Bernard Marlin

par Elise Loiseau
Le regard que les journalistes et les cinéastes portent sur la délinquance est rarement juste. Sa représentation est toujours délicate, parce que son traitement ne souffre pas la caricature, et le risque de sonner faux, ou, pire encore, (…) Lire la suite »
1er novembre 2014

Court de la semaine : La Femme Côtelette - Mariette Auvray

par Lucile Bourliaud
Portrait fouillis mais attachant d’une bourgeoise émancipée, La Femme Côtelette est un documentaire qui revient sur le parcours de Mme Alexandre, de jeune épouse soumise à mamie gouailleuse. Lire la suite »
25 octobre 2014

Court de la Semaine/Short of the Week special FIFIB : Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe de Caroline Poggi et Jonathan Vinel

par Elise Loiseau
Cette semaine, honneur au vainqueur de la compétition courts métrages du Fifib, Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe, réalisé par Jonathan Vinel et Caroline Poggi. Lire la suite »
19 October 2014

London Film Festival: Dear White People

by Coco Green
Screenwriter and director Justin Simien follows the lives of four African-American co-eds on an elite university campus to explore media representation, black authenticity and white privilege in 2014. As a UC Berkeley alum (go Bears!), this was somewhat relatable, and as someone interested in racism and racial politics I was delighted to see characters who, despite being groomed for a (…) Continue Reading »
18 octobre 2014

Court de la semaine/Short of the Week : Never like the first time - Jonas Odell

par Lucile Bourliaud
Quoi de plus intime que le récit de sa « première fois » ? C’est le sujet auquel s’est frotté le réalisateur suédois Jonas Odell dans ce documentaire animé, genre hybride dans lequel il excelle. Ours d’or du meilleur court métrage en 2006. Lire la suite »
13 October 2014

London Film Festival: Love Shorts Programme

by Ryan Ormonde
The theme was love but not the warm ’n’ fuzzy kind. Families are dysfunctional, grief is consuming, humour comes from pain. Lovely. Before the LFF reel came on screen, someone in the front row set the tone by abusing a very helpful usher and (…) 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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    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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