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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

Most recent articles

1 February 2023

Sensitive and important well-stitched short: Salar Pashtoonyar on Hills and Moutains

by Abla Kandalaft, Clotilde Couturier
Shooting on location in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, director Salar Pashtoonyar uses a thought-provoking yet powerfully humane hybrid of documentary and fiction to delve deep into the experience of a woman forced to the edge of her society. (...) Continue Reading »
31 January 2023

Interview with Enrique Buleo, director of Las Visitantes

by Abla Kandalaft
3 retired women travel by bus to discover Europe. They’ve recently lost their husbands and now it’s time to start living. They’ve heard people talk about the wonders of tourism all their lives and are dying to experience them firsthand. "I love (...) Continue Reading »
31 January 2023

Kevin Steen on Daron, Daron Colbert

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
Living on the edge of the most polluted zip codes in the US, an actor prepares for a role. Daron Colbert is an aspiring actor and like so, so many of his peers, he’s toiling away at his day job, hoping the next audition will clinch the deal. (...) Continue Reading »
30 January 2023

Leo Blandino on Bitume at the Brasserie

by Clotilde Couturier
On his way to England for an urgent transport, Merlin, an exhausted 50-years-old driver, begins to hear haunting voices from the back of his locked truck. An impressive mix of grit and poetry drives the miserable, heart-wrenching fate of migrant (...) Continue Reading »
29 January 2023

Interview with Trinidad Plass, Titouan Tillier and Isaac Wenzek, co-directors of Ressources humaines

by Clotilde Couturier
Very amusing and highly inventive animation around the themes of recycling and reincarnation! What was the starting point for the inspiration of the film? Are you particularly fond of certain objects? We based the film around the theme (...) Continue Reading »
29 January 2023

Joséphine Darcy Hopkins on Les Dents du bonheur

by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
The chirpy tone and cute child actors certainly belie a cruel madness at the heart of this ballsy and fun short, in which a children’s play date reveals darker power dynamics. Continue Reading »
29 January 2023

Sasha Argirov on his film Nurture at the Brasserie

by Abla Kandalaft
An emotionally stunted man reckons with the deep-rooted resentment that he harbors for his ailing mother. A surprisingly and impressively beautiful film given the dark and complex subject matter. Why did you choose this title in particular?    (...) Continue Reading »
28 January 2023

Claudia Bottino on A Trois / The Three Of Us

by Brasserie du Court team, Elise Loiseau
Julien, 30, visits his daughter Cléa, 6, whom he has not seen for a while. While the child looks for his attention, Julien makes every effort to come home to Lucie, Cléa’s mother. This time he will stay. A touching short with impressive character (...) Continue Reading »
28 January 2023

Yann Gonzalez at the Brasserie - Clermont Film Festival 2023

by Brasserie du Court team
Musician Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame, and blood. A three-part queer horror movie that features songs from Sim’s highly-anticipated debut album _Hideous Bastard_. Director (...) Continue Reading »
23 January 2023

Haunted by unspoken grievances and abuse - The Shining in context

by Robin W. Mac
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 (...) 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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Latest news

  • 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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