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Q&A with Hamza Bangash, dir. Stray Dogs Come Out At Night - Clermont 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Hamza-Bangash-dir-Stray-Dogs-Come-Out-At-Night-Clermont-2020

Karachi, Pakistan. Iqbal, a migrant sex worker, cannot come to terms with his illness. He convinces his uncle to take a day trip to the beach, desperate for respite. The Arabian sea beckons. An original film about an oft-ignored demographic. Hamza handles the subject matter with sensitivity and respect, painting a complex, human portrait of a character that is too often faceless. Can you explain the title? What is the symbol or role of the dog? In the late of night, the streets of (...) #Festivals

Q&A with Sofia Alaoui, dir. Qu’importe si les bêtes meurent [So What if the Goats Die] - Clermont 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Sofia-Alaoui-dir-Qu-importe-si-les-betes-meurent-So-What-if-

In the heights of the Atlas mountains, Abdellah, a young shepherd, and his father are snowed in. As their animals start to starve, Abdellah goes in search of supplies in a village more than a day’s walk away. With his mule, he arrives in the village and discovers that it has been deserted because of a curious event that has left all the believers baffled. The product of a truly incredible mix of genres, this short is a mesmerising oddity shot amongst the stunning, other-worldly landscape of (...) #Festivals

/ #arab, #French_film, #Film_Africa, #Science_fiction

LONDON #Short FILM FESTIVAL - London Lives 3
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/LONDON-SHORT-FILM-FESTIVAL-London-Lives-3

Thrive (Jamie Di Spirito, 2019) A sublimely intelligent and sensitive film, which sees a hook-up move into a challenging conversation. A naked man wakes up, lights up a cigarette and smokes out the window – through which the daylight outside illuminates the whole room. This is the only light source in the film, and it’s used brilliantly. Grindr buzzes. His date comes over, and they’re kissing almost before he’s through the door. The orange curtain is drawn, turning the generous daylight into a (...) #Festivals

/ Short, #LGBT, Social issues

#Social_issues_

Q&A with Paul Howard Allen, dir. Mega Sexy Robot Dinosaur - Clermont 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Paul-Howard-Allen-dir-Mega-Sexy-Robot-Dinosaur-Clermont-2020

INTERVIEW VIDEO TO COME A silly (in all the best ways) #Short very much made for fun that certainly made me laugh! Glad it made it into the Clermont competition. How much do you enjoy artistic experiments? Cinema audiences these days are incredibly smart and cinema literate so it’s really fun to be mischievous and play with people’s expectations. This is the beauty of short film, it allows you to explore your weirdest ideas without having to satisfy a commercial agenda. Why was the Kubrick (...) #Festivals

/ Short, #experimental, #Comedy

Q&A with Ross McClean, dir. Hydebank - Clermont 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Ross-McClean-dir-Hydebank-Clermont-2020

Forced onto the Northern Irish countryside, Hydebank Wood Facility currently houses 104 young male offenders. Four years into his sentence, Ryan is still coming to terms with the cause of his imprisonment. The unlikely catharsis to his inner demons? A flock of sheep living inside the prisons walls. Hydebank has certainly stood out in this year’s festival competitions for its particularly uplifting tone and heartwarming depiction of its subjects, human and animal. Director Ross McClean (...) #Festivals

/ #Short

▻https://www.rossmcclean.com

Q&A with Baloji, dir. Zombies - Clermont 2020 PRIX #Festivals CONNEXION AUVERGNE-RHÔNE-ALPES
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Baloji-dir-Zombies-Clermont-2020-Grand-Prize

The film “Zombie” is a journey between hope and dystopia in a hallucinated Kinhsasa, from the culture of the hair salon to futuristic solitary clubbing, from the urban parade to the glory of a dictator in campaign (Papa Bollo) to modern western in the Takeshi Kitano style. In parallel, the film is based on the almost carnal relationship we have with our phones. The device becoming like an outgrowth of the hand and giving us the talent of digital ubiquity... Baloji is a multidisciplinary (...) Festivals

/ #Film_Africa, #Short, #Music, #experimental

▻https://www.baloji.com

Q&A with Aurélie Reinhorn, dir. Raout Pacha - Double winner - Prix du rire « Fernand Raynaud » & Canal+ Award for the National Competition - Clermont 2020 Grand Prize
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Aurelie-Reinhorn-dir-Raout-Pacha-Double-winner-Prix-du-rire-

Two lost souls are required to undertake community service in a small town in Normandy. As it happens, the clean and tidy beach resort doens’t actually need any of the work they’ve been assigned and they start making up a series of absurd tasks to carry out. A proper laugh-out-loud short, Raout Pacha is also a damning indictment of the world of work. Reinhorn specifically questions the validity of this sort of compulsory unpaid work that ultimately benefits nobody. Her portrayal of the (...) #Festivals

Q&A with Anthony Nti, dir. Da Yie - Clermont 2020 Grand Prize
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Anthony-Nti-dir-Da-Yie-Clermont-2020-Grand-Prize

A foreigner in Ghana gets an assignment from his gang to recruit kids for a risky job that will take place later that evening. He finds Prince and Matilda, two lively kids and good friends, and plans to hand them over to the gang. After spending the day with them, he starts to question his decision and how it will affect their future. Shot on a very low budget, Anthony Nti’s Da Yie (good night)’s style is uncannily reminiscent of City of God and indeed the Brazilian film is one of his main (...) #Festivals

/ #Film_Africa, #Short

Q&A with Lars Vega, dir. Väntan På Döden / Awaiting Death - Clermont 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Lars-Vega-dir-Vantan-Pa-Doden-Awaiting-Death-Clermont-2020

A son arrives at the hospital to watch over his father’s death bed. When the son wants one last nice moment, his father would rather find out what to do with the two opened cans of mustard. More on the film... How did you come up with the story of this relationship? I was told a story from my friend Annica Zion that her grandparents were talking about Swedish meatballs when the grandmother was in hospital. I thought there was something funny about talking about something so unimportant (...) #Festivals

/ #Nordic, #Short, #Drama

Q&A with Thomas Vernay, dir. Miss Chazelles - Clermont 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Thomas-Vernay-dir-Miss-Chazelles-Clermont-2020

Clara and Marie are rival competitors for the title of Miss Chazelles-sur-Lyon. As Marie is declared winner of a local beauty pageant, tension escalates between both girls’s families and supporters. Miss Chazelles, Aesthetica 2019’s Best Drama award-winner, is a warm, irreverent and somewhat terrifying look at the word of regional pageants and the resulting drama. Despite the absurdity of the situation and its more ridiculously over-the-top behaviour, Thomas Vernay’s portrayal is never (...) #Festivals

/ #feminist, #Short, #French_film

Q&A with Lars Vega, dir. Väntan På Döden / Awaiting Death - Clermont 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Lars-Vega-dir-I-Vantan-Pa-Doden-Awaiting-Death-Clermont-2020

A son arrives at the hospital to watch over his father’s death bed. When the son wants one last nice moment, his father would rather find out what to do with the two opened cans of mustard. More on the film... How did you come up with the story of this relationship? I was told a story from my friend Annica Zion that her grandparents were talking about Swedish meatballs when the grandmother was in hospital. I thought there was something funny about talking about something so unimportant in (...) #Festivals

/ #Nordic, #Short, #Drama

Q&A with Gabrielle Stemmer, dir. Clean With Me (After Dark)
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Gabrielle-Stemmer-dir-Clean-With-Me-After-Dark

Through a very clever and revealing video montage, Gabrielle Stemmer not only sheds light on somewhat depressing phenomenon of cleaning videos on YouTube but silently and subtly unearths the loneliness and neuroses that often underpin it, in a society in which women are homemakers and the home is their gilded cage. How did you discover the “world” of YouTube? I’ve been a heavy YouTube user for seven or eight years now – it’s TV for me. I’d say that from the beginning I’ve been watching stuff (...) #Shorts

/ #feminist, #Short, #experimental, #French_film

Q&A with Mehdi Benallal, dir. Madame Baurès - Clermont 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Mehdi-Benallal-dir-Madame-Baures-Clermont-2020

A stroll through the present-day municipalities of Vincennes and Saint Mandé, once home to Madame Baurès, a woman and Communist. The filmmaker’s voice-over recounts the memory of the story that Ray­monde had entrusted to him. (Cinéma du Réel) This is a very moving film about memory and legacy, as we are given a glimpse into Madame Baurès’s life as it is now, in a world that seems to have forgotten and openly turned its back on everything she spent most of her life fighting for. Through this (...) #Festivals

/ #Short, #Radical_film

Q&A with Yves Gellie, dir. L’Année du robot - Clermont 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Yves-Gellie-dir-L-Annee-du-robot-Clermont-2020

At the crossroads of art and science, this film centers on human beings and robots as their artificial counterparts. Like a series of archival documents detailing the first contacts and exchanges between human beings and a robot, the film studies cognitive dissonance, a minuscule, mysterious relational space lying between them both. A thoroughly exhaustive but at moments frankly alarming - the growth of emotional #Tech - look at our ever-changing relationships with robots. Yves Gellie’s (...) #Festivals

/ #Documentary, #Short, Tech

Q&A with Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze, dir. Tradition - Clermont 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Ioseb-Soso-Bliadze-dir-Tradition-Clermont-2020

Two German tourists travel around Georgia and encounter the country’s culture, traditions and some more conservative attitudes. A brave film in which the director’s passion for the subject and anger at the prejudices faced by many gay people in his home Country certainly come to the fore. An interesting and timely festival run, ahead of the general release of Georgian filmmaker Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced, a film centered on the growing feelings between two gay students of a Georgian (...) #Festivals

/ #LGBT, #Short

Q&A with Noël Fuzellier, dir. Mars Colony - ClermontFF 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Noel-Fuzellier-dir-Mars-Colony-ClermontFF-2020

Logan is a sci-fi obsessed awkward teenager who often finds himself the butt of his friends’ jokes. One day, he’s visited by an older man who claims to be him, 39 years from now and asks him to join him on a mission to save humankind. A sci-fi enthusiast himself, Noël Fuzellier’s passion for space travel and Mars in particular shines through this optimistic, unpretentious yet ambitious #Short. He deftly mixes low-key family dynamics typical of French cinema with zany space travel sequences. (...) #Festivals

/ Short, #Science_fiction

▻https://vimeo.com/375629821

Q&A with Ariane Labed, dir. Olla - ClermontFF 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Ariane-Label-dir-Olla-ClermontFF-2020

Olla responded to an advertisement on an Eastern women dating site. She moves in with Pierre, who lives with his old mother. But nothing happens as planned. First time director but seasoned actress Labed brings us a visually distinctive look at sexuality and modern relationships. Trailer #Festivals

/ gender/sex, #Short

#gender/sex

Q&A with Antoine Bargain, dir. Disciplinaires - ClermontFF 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Antoine-Bargain-dir-Disciplinaires-ClermontFF-2020

On the edge of the forest of Saint-Jean, near the village of Corte, nature has taken over the abandoned military base. Today, it is a place where families and sportsmen spend their time in relaxation, though in the 1970s it was the worst fear of the soldiers of the French Foreign Legion. #Festivals

Q&A with Valerie Barnhart, dir. The Girl in the Hallway - ClermontFF 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Valerie-Barnhart-dir-The-Girl-in-the-Hallway-ClermontFF-2020

Why does “Little Red Riding Hood” give Jamie nightmares? It’s been fifteen years, and the girl in the hallway still haunts him. This is a testament to locked doors. A lullaby sung by wolves with duct tape and polaroids. Not all girls make it out of the forest. There are stories children shouldn’t hear. A remarkably effective, inventive and haunting #Animation about a real-life case of child abduction. (...) #Festivals

/ Animation, #Short

LONDON #Short FILM FESTIVAL - Conte Anglais (dir: Daniel Marc Janes)
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/LONDON-SHORT-FILM-FESTIVAL-Conte-Anglais-dir-Daniel-Marc-Janes

This sweet, topical short from director Daniel Marc Janes is both profound and poignant, masterfully touching on the English psyche from an outsider perspective. Shot in 16mm, the visually warm picture ends with a more succinct and intimate expression of Post-Brexit Britain than any insider knowledge could secure. It was showcased as part of the London Short Film Festival’s Visions of Albion event, which presented a formidable range of new shorts – each distinct in both theme and style but (...) #Festivals

/ Short

▻https://www.conteanglais.com

Voici le nouveau « Netflix » : gratuit, écolo et engagé
▻https://www.wedemain.fr/Voici-le-nouveau-Netflix-gratuit-ecolo-et-engage_a3832.html

https://www.wedemain.fr/photo/art/grande/29228914-28399167.jpg?v=1545825701

Le site ImagoTV mis en ligne en décembre 2018 regroupe des podcasts, documentaires et vidéos YouTube écolos et engagés. Une vidéothèque gratuite et participative.

▻http://imagotv.fr/php/homepage.php

Accessible en ligne depuis le 18 décembre, la plateforme IMAGO sélectionne et répertorie les chaînes Youtube, courts-métrages et émissions web axés autour des problématiques de développement durable et de transformation sociale.

Le catalogue compte déjà près de 2 000 vidéos regroupées en 8 grandes thématiques (économie, alternatives, conscience, société, esprit critique, santé, écologie, connaissance). Parmi cette sélection, quelques titres familiers et de belles trouvailles, le tout sans avoir à fouiller dans les méandres d’Internet

#Net_TV #Ecologie #Vidéo #PeerTube

LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL - Recollective Resistance - Kamal Aljafari’s Port of Memory
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/LONDON-SHORT-FILM-FESTIVAL-Recollective-Resistance-Kamal-Aljafari-s-P

Aljafari’s Port of Memory is the second instalment of a three part series entitled Recollective Resistance, serving as a witness to the destruction, repopulation, and gentrification of the once thriving Palestinian port city of Jaffa – now an extension of Tel Aviv. Using footage from imperialist–themed action films set in Jaffa, Aljafari provides us with a memoir of the everyday activities of a disappearing city that is bombarded by gentrification, re-construction and dispossession of its (...) #Festivals

Short of the Week: Ahmed Song, dir. Foued Mansour
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Short-of-the-Week-Ahmed-Song-dir-Fouad-Mansour

One day Ahmed, employed at the public baths and nearing retirement, encounters Mike, a teenager adrift. Between the bath house walls, in a place on the point of disappearing, a strange relationship will develop between these two fractured souls. A lovely, heart-warming short subtly exploring a growing relationship between the central characters and finding the beauty in the mundane. Available thanks to Univers Cine until 28 January! Here’s our interview with director Fouad Mansour from (...) #Shorts

LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL - London Lives 2
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/LONDON-SHORT-FILM-FESTIVAL-London-Lives-2

The Mole, (Yiling Ding, 2018) This short and enigmatic film is a glimpse into the life of a young masseur in Chinatown. A montage of moments in his working day at family-run Hong Ning Herbal Medicine, with voiceover narration in Chinese, proffers the tip of an iceberg, the scale and complexity of which is only made clear in the final shot. With all the reticence of an Imagist poem, the film leaves you deeply intrigued yet with the impression that it’s somehow said everything that needs (...) #Festivals

▻https://www.edwardsmyth.co.uk/mahon-chorizo-avocado

LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL - London Lives 1
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/LONDON-SHORT-FILM-FESTIVAL-London-Lives-1

Telling a friend where I was going on Wednesday, I had hesitated over the title – was it ‘London Lives, as in ‘many lives’, or could it be lives, as in ‘she lives’? After taking in these eight juxtaposed stories, I felt sure it was the former – the lives were multiple, intersecting but leading to completely distinct worlds, rather than coming together to form a unified and living whole. Their placement alongside each other felt more like counterpoint than synthesis. The films, curated from open (...) #Festivals