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Abou Sangare Delivers A Break-Out Performance In ‘Souleymane’s Story’ (2024)
Abou Sangare in Souleymane’s Story (2024); Photo courtesy of Conic Films Souleymane’s Story (Boris Lojkine, 2024) is a French language film following breakout star Abou Sangare as Souleymane, an asylum-seeker from Guinea. This film follows Souleymane through the 48-hour period before his citizenship interview where he must revise a fabricated story sold to him by Barry, a “social worker” who helps him prepare documents and memorise dates. The question this movie asks at it

Hania Ahmed
Oct 21, 20253 min read


Faith, Death, Nature: In Conversation With Ann Marie Fleming
Ann Marie Fleming is a Canadian filmmaker and visual artist whose award-winning films play with visual mediums and have won the hearts of many. Her recent film, ‘Can I Get A Witness?’ was named on Toronto International Film Festival’s Canada’s Top Ten list in 2024.
Hannah Tang
Sep 25, 20258 min read


‘Weapons’ Review: A Mystery Solved By Chance
Photo by Jack B on Unsplash Following the widely celebrated success of Barbarian (Zach Cregger, 2022), Zach Cregger has dared to continue in the horror/mystery direction, this time directing Weapons; a film about the strange disappearance of seventeen school children who decided to leave their homes at 2:17 am to run into the void. The next day only two people return to class, Alex (Cary Christopher), and Justine Gandy (Julia Garner), the teacher, raising prominent quest
Britney Garcia
Sep 20, 20254 min read


The 69th BFI London Film Festival Programme 2025
The 69th BFI London Film Festival is set to join us once again this October. Festival director, Kristy Matheson, has curated a programme which highlights this year’s themes surrounding family, love, and belonging.
Zarah Hashim
Sep 19, 20254 min read


A Climate After Crisis: The Tender Landscape of ‘Can I Get A Witness?’
Ann Marie Fleming’s film opens with documentary footage of a burning forest. The harrowing scene is not followed by such violence; instead, chased by golden sunlit shots of a planet healing.
Hannah Tang
Sep 19, 20253 min read
Sorda (2025): How A Visual Medium Tells The Story Of A Deaf Woman
Sorda (2025) is a Spanish drama directed by Eva Libertad about a woman named Ángela (Miriam Garlo) who is deaf and leads her life in Spain’s countryside with her partner, Héctor (Álvaro Cervantes). She experiences the new onset of pregnancy and the following stages of early motherhood, whilst facing the frustrations and difficulties which arise within a hearing-normative world.
Darina Babacheva
Sep 17, 20254 min read


‘Happyend’: “A Story About The Near Future”
‘Happyend’ (Neo Sora, 2024); Image courtesy of Modern Films Neo Sora’s feature film Happyend was one that I had anticipated with...
Zarah Hashim
Sep 15, 20255 min read


Discussions In Diaspora And Film: In Conversation With Stéphane Ly-Cuong And Clotilde Chevalier
Stéphane Ly-Cuong, Clotilde Chevalier, and Phuong Le at the London screening of Dans la Cuisine des Nguyen (Stéphane Ly-Cuong, 2025);...
Zarah Hashim
Sep 10, 202510 min read


“At The End Of The Story”: Strand Magazine On David Lynch
On the 16th of January, director, visionary, and lover of dreams, David Lynch passed, leaving a colossal cavity in the heart of film.
Roxy-Moon Dahal Hodson
Jan 22, 20255 min read


“You Develop Your Own Illness": Interview with Françoise Lebrun on her Performance in Vortex
Before we formally sat down to discuss the process behind the creation of 'Vortex', Gaspar Noé’s new cerebral and unforgiving...
Alfie Woodhead
May 27, 20224 min read
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