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  • Isabella Margara on her short Nothing Holier than a Dolphin

    Two fishermen find a Dolphin accidentally caught in their nets. The Dolphin, on its turn, finds a fisherman drowning in the water and tries to save him. More myths and legends as inspiration at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival! This time, they come to us from Greece and through the... continue
  • Haunted by unspoken grievances and abuse - The Shining in...

    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 discussion was recorded as part of the Garden... continue
  • Storytelling at its finest: Fadia’s Tree directed by Sarah...

    Dreaming of a homeland she is denied, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, sets a challenge to find an ancient tree that stands as witness to her family’s existence, guided only by inherited memories, a blind man and a two-headed dragon. Sarah Beddington’s first feature film is the result of over a... continue
  • Epic in scope, carnivalesque in tone and almost unprecedented in...

    Set in an exquisite hand-crafted world made up of mattes, miniatures, intricate compositions and theatrical props, A New Old Play may at first strike one as sui generis. The history of cinema is rich in hand crafted worlds and ingenious practical effects (e.g. the works of Méliès, Tourneur and... continue
  • Revisiting 2017! The Art Of Loving / Get Out

    Coco Green and Ola Magdziarek review a couple of cinematic highlights from 2017: Maria Sadowska’s The Art Of Loving, which tells the story of Polish sexologist Michalina Wislocka who fought for her book to be published in the late 1970s, and Jordan Peele’s Get Out, in which Daniel Kaluuya’s... continue

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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 (...) 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 (...) 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 »
12 October 2014

Short of the Week: SPECIAL RAINDANCE Gone the Way of the Dodo by Liam Saint-Pierre

by Elise Loiseau
This short film was screened at the London Raindance Film Festival’s 2014 edition. Umït runs one of the last shops in London that sells film reels. Umït comes across as a borderline obsessive film geek: his wife thinks he is mad, he surrounds (...) Continue Reading »
11 octobre 2014

Court de la semaine SPECIAL RAINDANCE : Gone the Way of the Dodo de Liam Saint-Pierre

par Elise Loiseau
“Gone the way of the dodo” signifie qu’une chose est devenue anachronique, obsolète. Liam Saint-Pierre choisi ce titre en forme d’idiome et donne le ton : son émouvant documentaire de onze minutes est un hommage rendu à la pellicule, format qui meurt (...) Lire la suite »
5 octobre 2014

Papa was not a Rolling Stone

par Clotilde Couturier
Plongée à la Courneuve dans la jeunesse du bac 1987 avec « Papa was not a Rolling Stone », un film autobiographique réalisé par Sylvie Ohayon, une autre "boum". Lire la suite »
4 octobre 2014

Court de la semaine : El Empleo - Santiago ’Bou’ Grasso

par Lucile Bourliaud
Derrière sa ligne claire et ses couleurs douces, le court métrage de la semaine, film d’animation de Santiago ’Bou’ Grasso, jette un regard sombre sur notre société et dénonce nos servitudes volontaires. Un film de 2008 qui n’a rien perdu de sa force. (...) Lire la suite »
3 October 2014

Vinil Verde by Kleber Mendonca Filho

by Jack Wormell
Vinil Verde (Green Vinyl) unfolds like a modern day Struwwelpeter, but in the place of didactic morals the film creeps along with a strange silence, literally and in its authorial voice, leaving you not entirely sure what to make of it. The (...) Continue Reading »
2 October 2014

Q and A with Anton Saunders, dir. of Fourever

by Abla Kandalaft
Anton Saunders directed and starred in Fourever, screened at the Raindance Film Festival (2014). Anton’s character Johnny, a man struggling to move on from his past, organises a fancy dress soirée with friends he hasn’t seen in ten years. But it (...) 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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  • 28 January

    ClermontFF2023 is now on!

    Prolific director Sally Potter, who has been championing collaborative work and putting women at the heart of her art since the 1970s, was invited to discuss her filmography and latest short, Look At Me. You can watch the masterclass on the Festival’s Facebook page. We’ll be adding Elise, (...)
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