Rose Dymock

Women X returns this year with a hybrid festival taking place both online and in person at the ARC – Stockton Arts Centre in Stockton-On-Tees in the North East of England.
Their mission is to create a ‘dynamic new type of festival’ for a ‘dynamic new type of filmmaker’, as Women X aims to break down these barriers that underrepresented voices face in the industry, and bring together female and non-binary creatives and filmmakers together for a celebration of film in a safe and inclusive space...

Take One Action – the UK’s leading global change film festival – has announced the full programme for its 14th annual edition. As Scotland gears up to host the UN Climate Conference (aka COP26) the festival will host 20+ international, UK and Scottish film premieres, inspiring conversations and exclusive digital content in Glasgow, Edinburgh and online from 22 – 26 September. In-person festival editions will also take place in Aberdeen (22-24 October) and Inverness (29-31 October).
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There are no shortage of articles, posts, and Twitter threads about the importance of platonic love, the highs and lows, the breakups that can often feel more painful than the end of a romantic relationship. Nikole Beckwith’s new film Together Together captures the complicated relationship between two very different people, brought together through surrogacy.

After casting Björn Andrésen as Tadzio in his 1971 film Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti dubbed the young teenager ‘the most beautiful boy in the world’, and Andresen was thrust into the international spotlight with devastating consequences.

Remembering your first date – either with a current partner, or perhaps the first time you ever went out with someone – is sure to bring back memories. The awkward crushes of youth, those butterflies in the stomach, bad conversations, these memories are often universal. What most first dates don’t usually involve are dodgy car deals, shootouts, an elderly couple making out in the front seat, and in-depth discussions about the merits and shortcomings of ‘Of Mice and Men’.

Billed as a deep dive into your favourite band’s favourite band, Edgar Wright brings his dynamic and musical-infused filmography to the documentary drama for the first time in this loving and occasionally over-long investigation of the history of Sparks.

Discovering yourself in text, whether through characters, situations, or the locations that are depicted in text, can feel revelatory. As Natalie Olah has recently written of her hometown of Birmingham, it can give you a ‘complete validation through literature’ which grounds you in the moment and lets the text flow through you as familiar references, places, street names bring the text to life – even more so when the area described is one seldom found in literature.

With the UK version of the Utah-based festival taking place in the last week of July – a little later than usual – we look forward to our 5 most anticipated films that are screening at Sundance London.

For the third year the ‘Killer Shorts’ Horror Short Screenplay Competition is accepting submissions. The Screenwriters Network is partnering with top figures in the horror genre (producers, execs and literary managers) to select the Top 10 scripts from the pool of submissions.

MyFrenchFilmFestival have announced their 2021 lineup with a selection of films from both their own history and previous editions of the Cannes Film Festival.

A dive into the world of a fitness influence at the height of her fame, Marcus Van Horn's Sweat tackles both the deep dedication and immense shallowness of ever-growing, increasingly crowded industry.

While Limbo may not be groundbreaking with its formulaic detective narrative, the sheer sense of place and space that Cheang creates allows for a visceral cinematic experience.

Glasgow’s feminist film festival ‘Femspectives’ have annouced the guest curators for it’s third edition, taking place digitally from 23rd – 25th April.
Edinburgh-based interdisciplinary artist and cultural practitioner Tanatsei Gambura and Glasgow-based Ane Lopez, whose background ranges across curation, design, marketing and film production, will each programme a range of shorts for the third annual festival, which will
be themed around ‘dreaming’.
About their programme ‘Dreaming While Black...

Hypocrisy, injustice and a magnificently restrained performance from the lead, Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam’s examination of Iran’s strict penal system and the hypocrisies laid bare when a widowed mother demands justice in Ballad of A White Cow.

That small sub-section of film viewers who have recently proclaimed — in a Hays Code like fit of morality — that unnecessary sex scenes in films shouldn’t exist would have a hard time with Radu Jude’s latest film in Competition at the Berlinale this year.