My mother has this irksome habit of citing Hadith to get her children to do things. Her favourite, by far, has always been “Heaven lies …
‘Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother’: Feet, Faith, and Forgiveness
Festivals
Wildwood: One of the Best Animated Films of the Decade
An adventure sixteen years in the making, Laika’s sixth official feature film is its most ambitious undertaking to date. The studio behind groundbreaking works of …
The MIFF “Diaries” (Part Two)
Interior of The Forum theatre for the screening of Filipiñana, in the picture it displays an ad for Asahi (Source: own photograph) Day Two and …
The MIFF “Diaries” (Part One)
Screens in the lobby of the Capitol Theatre in full festival mode (Source: Own photograph) Writer’s Note: This was written some days after my return …
Who Is My Master and How Have I Come to Be? Universe25 (2025) & A Spontaneous Sunday At The Armenian Film Festival
Last month, I was methodically flicking through my emails, my online post, when I found a request to review British-Armenian director Richard Melkonian’s debut feature …
Pavements (2024): On the World’s Most Important Band
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins pins down Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, a documentary/mockumentary/fictional concert film which stands out in the sea of musical biopics as a ‘semiotic experimental’ …
Witches (2024)
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins reviews Witches– Elizabeth Sankey’s essayistic film examination of mothers, witches, and the ways we mishandle both. Women often come in threes. The high …
The Flesh of Language (2024)
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins analyses the effect of Amanda Rice’s documentary on analogue media and animal extinction, The Flesh of Language. The body of analogue media and …
The Post-LFF Debrief
Rarely does opinion not benefit from the weight of a little time to test its strength, to see whether it holds or bends. The first …
All We Imagine as Light (LFF 2024)
In A Nutshell: A stunning exploration of life and the search for connection against the backdrop of a developing country. Aftertaste: Tastes like, or rather …