Alla Kovgan discusses restaging and shooting dance excerpts for her 3D doc Cunningham, including creating the camera choreography and capturing the …
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Women Directors
In honour of #52filmsbywomen, we've collected all of our reviews of films directed by women and interviews with female directors all in one place.
Interview: Honey Boy is a confident step into fiction filmmaking for Alma Har’el
Poetic documentarian Alma Har'el discusses her first fiction feature, Honey Boy, Shia LaBeouf's autobiographical exploration of his childhood trauma. Honey …
LFF’s Official Competition highlights emerging trends among young auteurs
Ben Flanagan muses on LFF 2019's competition selection and to what extent it represents the current state of cinema, particularly British and genre cinema. Read …
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Interview: Hala is a lyrical debut from Minhal Baig
Hala director Minhal Baig discusses fictionalising her own life story, her filmic influences, and Gerladine Viswanathan’s brilliant performance. We reviewed the …
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‘It is with love that I do this’: Cannibalism and power under patriarchy
In Raw and We Are What We Are, cannibalism is used as a metaphor to explore what it is to be a woman living under patriarchy, in both the macro and the micro. …
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Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell on MS Slavic 7
Co-directors Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell discuss finding the structure of MS Slavic 7, their collaboration, and working on a budget. Deragh …
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