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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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7 March 2023

About us

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WHO WE ARE myDylarama is an editorial platform and film events organisation dedicated to increasing public engagement with independent and international film. The website is edited by an all-female team of programmers, academics and film (...) Continue Reading »
9 February 2023

Interview with Binghan Lin, director of The Trapped Pig

by Abla Kandalaft
The Trapped Pig tells the almost surreal story of a Wuhan truck driver, who is travelling home for the Chinese New Year with a precious boar, being trapped in one-person quarantine zone at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of my (...) Continue Reading »
9 February 2023

Richard Misek on his short A History of the World According to Getty Images

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
A keen video essayist, Richard Misek’s work involved endlessly googling archive images. In 2018, he noticed that the download function had been disabled on Google. He dug deeper and found out that Getty Images had threatened to sue Google. The (...) Continue Reading »
5 February 2023

Isabella Margara on her short Nothing Holier than a Dolphin

by Brasserie du Court team, Elise Loiseau
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 (...) Continue Reading »
5 February 2023

Masterfully inspired by Afro-futurism: Amartei Amar on TsutsuƐ

by Brasserie du Court team, Elise Loiseau
Set in a small Ghanaian town at the edge of a large landfill site that spills into the ocean, the sons of a fisherman, Sowah and Okai, struggle to cope with loss of their eldest brother who drowned during a fishing expedition. Haunted by his (...) Continue Reading »
5 February 2023

Laura Gonçalves on her short "O Homem do Lixo"

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
On a hot August afternoon, the family gathers at the table. The memories of each are crossed to tell the story of uncle Botão. From the dictatorship to the emigration to France, where he worked as a garbage man, and when he arrived with the van (...) Continue Reading »
4 February 2023

Dwayne LeBlanc on Civic, at the Brasserie du Court

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
CIVIC is a short film that follows Booker on his first trip back home to South Central, L.A. after several years of self-imposed exile. Without any clear motive, or even a warning, Booker returns to the place that holds his origins and the (...) Continue Reading »
4 February 2023

"There is a radical desire for the unknown and of otherness": Soufiane Adel on One Day When I Was Lost

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
The Voyager probe is about to leave our solar system. At the same time, on Earth, Alain Diaw begins his first day of work in a prestigious automobile company. He has come a long way and is also aiming for the unknown. Soufiane Adel’s Le Jour où (...) Continue Reading »
1 February 2023

Interview with Kamal Aljafari, director of Paradiso, XXXI, 108

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde Couturier
“Nothing can be heard anymore; the roar of our plane absorbs every other sound. We are heading straight to the world’s biggest display of soundproof fireworks, and soon we will drop our bombs.” Palestinian filmmaker and artist Kamal Aljafari has (...) Continue Reading »
1 February 2023

Salar Pashtoonyar on Bad Omen at the Brasserie

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
Set in Kabul, Afghanistan. Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses to save her job. I did a double take when Salar came on to this video interview. I’ll be honest and say that I expected him to be a (...) 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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