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Digital Witnesses

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker in Miranda Pennell’s concise desktop documentary.

Films On The Circuit

Mast-del

Resistance Through Intimacy

Review by Teresa Vieira

Gestures of love reach further than any demonstration of hate in Mast-del, an experimental poem about forbidden desires, both inside and outside post-revolution Iranian cinema.

Films On The Circuit

The Archive: Queer Nigerians

Exiled Queerness

Review by Adham Youssef

Awarded the Principi Award at Lago Film Fest, Simisolaoluwa Akande’s film is an ode to queer people from the Global South.

Films Retrospective

Wasp

The Kitchen-Sink Stings

Review by Miriam Vogt

A look back at Andrea Arnold’s Oscar-winning short film where class and desire collide in a single mother’s dilemma.

Talks Interviews

Lyrical Monsters

Interview with Yann Gonzalez by Anas Sareen

The acclaimed French filmmaker talks about his latest short film, a visual anthem to a whole generation of queer people.

Films On The Circuit

All Gucci My Broski

The Cycle of Existential Chaos

Review by Emel-Elizabeth Tuulik

A haphazard episode of an introspective sitcom: All Gucci My Broski is a wild dive into the existential crisis of a single white man named Jonny.

A History of the World According to Getty Images (Richard Misek, 2020)

Talks Interviews

No More Watermarks

Interview with Richard Misek by Charlie Shackleton

Filmmaker Richard Misek takes on the world’s largest commercial image archive, probing the legal, economic, and ethical implications of granting a private corporation such power over our shared cultural memory.

Films Archive

O, Glory!

Tripping Through Folk Horror

Review by Agnès Houghton-Boyle

A fun, campy homage to contemporary folk and cosmic horror.

Films

The Veiled City

Emptied Away

Review by Jason Todd

Natalie Cubides-Brady’s sci-fi city symphony is reminiscent of Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962).

Films Now Showing

I Am Good At Karate

Everything But The Kitchen Sink

Review by Laurence Boyce

Jess Dadds’ social realist film is a tribute to the power of an individual to fight against the crippling issues caused by mental illness.

Films Archive

Agrilogistics

Staging Tulips

Review by Līga Požarska

Gerard Ortín Castellví mixes his anthropological interests with his creative curiosities and turns his camera towards automated greenhouses in Agrilogistics.