Is There Anybody Out There, 2023. Directed by Ella Glendining. SYNOPSIS: Filmmaker Ella Glendining conducts a global search for someone with a body that looks like hers, and explores what it takes to love yourself as a disabled person in an ableist world. Ella Gledining’s powerful documentary is a rallying call for how society views […]
Movie Review – Once Within a Time (2023)
Once Within a Time, 2023. Directed by Godfrey Reggio and Jon Kane. Starring Aaron Kingsley Adetola, Sussan Deyhim, John Flax, Tara Khozein, Apollo Garcia Orellana, and Mike Tyson. SYNOPSIS: A dreamlike journey through an apocalyptic vision of the end of a world and the possible beginning of a new one. If you’re looking for something […]
2023 BFI London Film Festival Review – HAAR
Haar, 2023. Directed by Ben Hecking. Starring Kate Kennedy, Balász Czukor, Fehinti Balogun, Jack Morris, Claudia Jolly, Éva Magyar, Maddie Rice, Will Brown, Grace Chilton and Ágota Dunai. SYNOPSIS: While stranded on location in Budapest, Hungary, Jef, a busy film production manager, contemplates her life, relationships and memories. Shot entirely on Super 8, Haar has […]
Fragments Festival launches at London’s Genesis Cinema
The 3rd Fragments Festival is set to open its doors at London’s Genesis Cinema on the 28th of September. Celebrating inclusivity in film, the festival opens with Ken Loach’s new film The Old Oak. Rumoured to be the acclaimed British filmmaker’s last production, the film completes his ‘Northeast Trilogy’ that began with I, Daniel Blake […]
Chuck Chuck Baby celebrates its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
Janis Pugh’s musical comedy Chuck Chuck Baby is set to make its North American debut at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this week. As our Edinburgh Film Festival review of Chuck Chuck Baby puts it, the film is a life-affirming work that ‘makes you feel that sometimes – just sometimes – good things really […]
Movie Review – Paris Memories (2023)
Paris Memories, 2023. Directed by Alice Winocour. Starring Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin, Amadou Mbow, and Maya Sansa. SYNOPSIS: A Parisian tries to make sense of her fractured memories in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. By retracting the steps that led up to the event, she begins to piece together what happened and […]
UK trailer for Alice Winocour’s Paris Memories starring Virginie Efira
Alice Winocour’s (Augustine, Disorder, Proxima) moving drama of memory and loss, Paris Memories is released in the UK this August by Picturehouse Entertainment. The poignant drama stars Virginie Efira (Benedetta, Elle) as Mia, someone trying to rebuild her life in the aftermath of a violent attack. Inspired by the filmmaker’s memories of the 2015 attack on Paris’s […]
Cinecittà Italian Docs Review – Il Posto (A Steady Job)
Il Posto (A Steady Job), 2022. Directed by Mattia Colombo, Gianluca Matarrese. SYNOPSIS: An on the road documentary focusing on the thousands of people in the nursing profession in Southern Italy who are desperate for only a few reliable positions in the country’s northern cities. An insightful documentary playing as part of the first season of […]
Cinecittà Italian Docs Review – Svegliami a Mezzanotte (Wake Me Up At Midnight)
Svegliami a Mezzanotte (Wake Me Up At Midnight), 2022 Directed by Francesco Patierno Written by Fuani Mariano, Francesco Patierno SYNOPSIS: A young woman who has recently become a mother decides to take her own life. Based on her own autobiographical writings, the film explores her own search for understanding. A haunting and poetic non-fiction piece […]
Cinecittà Italian Docs Review – Bella Ciao
Bella Ciao, 2022 Directed by Giulia Giapponesi. SYNOPSIS: The story of the folk song “Bella ciao”, from its possible origins in the 19th century to its contemporary renewed popularity. The folk song ‘Bella ciao’ is for many people a call to arms against oppression. In the case of Italy, where many assume the song to […]
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