Author: Nadia Kuligowski

Is there a journalistically appropriate way to say I love this film and it was very sweet of Ariane Louis-Seize to make it for me?…

Opening your movie with a tableau-like scene of the titular character (Samantha Morton) awaking in the embrace of her dead boyfriend, only to have her…

Fifty-Four Days is a short film co-directed by Phoebe Torrance and Cat White (who also wrote the script). Coincidentally, this is the second film in…

Happy Snaps is a short submitted by Tyro Heath, funded by the BFI network. The film follows two young boys, Gabriel (Osian Pirotte) and Sami…

Fleeting is the short film directed by award-winning Louisa Connolly-Burnham. It is a moving short on the tension surrounding the Repeal the Eighth movement in…

The first time I watched Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day, I hadn’t read its synopsis. It was a film I’d sought out entirely based on…

I did a bit of investigative journalism whilst rewatching the short film Distance (perhaps on the verge of internet stalking?). Anyway, I discovered that Distance…

The film is titled Le Bonheur or ‘Happiness’ in translation, and it’s filled with exactly that. In fact, as far as I recall, there’s only…

Shot in New York and funded by the Spike Lee Fund When Winter Comes was directed by Chinese filmmaker Yuan Yuan. It is a film…

It’s hard to believe Past Lives is Celine Song’s debut film, but here we are.  Before watching, I decided to revisit some of the initial…