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(🇬🇧🇷🇺) Anna & Anora: A Russian Perspective

Written by Anna Shakour/Анна Шакур English Review - SPOILER ALERT! A Cinderella story where the clock strikes 12 a little too early… Anora is one of those films that you just KNOW is going to be great. It is what the trailer shows and more - romantic, chaotic, entertaining,

by Anna Shakour
Oct 31, 2024 How to Build a Truth Engine
How to Build a Truth Engine

In the midst of the American Presidential Election, the subject matter of this George Clooney-produced Documentary couldn’t be more pressing. Alongside a noble effort to highlight the fallability of our current information ecosystem, a team of experts share their research, models and tools they have developed in the modern

by Umnia El-Neil
Oct 27, 2024 Holloway
Holloway

In the broken husk of a building that once housed and detained women of all kinds, sit a group of those same women, who bring to light the realities of what brought them to Holloway, and what mark it left on their lives. Once again, it reminds us that our

by Umnia El-Neil
Oct 27, 2024 Film Tea from BFI London Film Festival 2024 | SOPHISTICULTURE S02E05
Film Tea from BFI London Film Festival 2024 | SOPHISTICULTURE S02E05

Direct from our headquarters, our correspondent and CEO UMNIA gives you the full lowdown on the BFI Programme, and some amazing interviews and input from the coolest talent at LFF. Guest List: Susan Chardy, Lead Actress ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Sasha Nathwani, Director and Co-writer, ‘Last Swim’ Jazmin Jones

by Umnia El-Neil & Jack O'Mahoney
Oct 23, 2024 Queens of Drama: Sapphic Hannah Montana
Queens of Drama: Sapphic Hannah Montana

Oh, the price of pop music! Queens of Drama is a glittery, colourful, camp 2000’s fever dream, an ode to standom culture in it’s infancy, the toxicity of fame, the lure of pop culture. All wrapped up in a Lesbian love story for the ages - truthful, raunchy

by Umnia El-Neil
Trophy Case   -   Oct 22, 2024 Seeking Mavis Beacon: A lifestyle, a mirror, a portal.
Seeking Mavis Beacon: A lifestyle, a mirror, a portal.

My life is the way this documentary feels. Lifestyle. I have found it exceedingly hard to explain to people what it was like growing up as a Black girl on the internet when I was too young to be on the internet. ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ is the first document that

by Umnia El-Neil
Reviews   -   Oct 21, 2024 The Piano Lesson: A Haunting Halloween Watch
The Piano Lesson: A Haunting Halloween Watch

Ghost Story! It’s actually a ghost story you guys, fair warning! Adapted from the August Wilson play, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is theatre. There are no subtle performances, which would be entirely against the format of the material, which demands strong and robust emotional expression of all kinds - which

by Umnia El-Neil
Reviews   -   Oct 21, 2024 Hard Truths.
Hard Truths.

The average cinephile may turn their nose up at the visual style of this film - it’s very grounded, unpretentious, and starkly digital, giving the general British vibe of an episode of Eastenders, or maybe just what a student would film on a DSLR. This in no way is

by Umnia El-Neil
(🇬🇧🇷🇺) Anna & Anora: A Russian Perspective
Reviews   -   Nov 07, 2024 (🇬🇧🇷🇺) Anna & Anora: A Russian Perspective

Written by Anna Shakour/Анна Шакур English Review - SPOILER ALERT! A Cinderella story where the clock strikes 12 a little too early… Anora is one of those films that you just KNOW is going to be great. It is what the trailer shows and more - romantic, chaotic, entertaining,

by Anna Shakour
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Reviews   -   Nov 07, 2024 (🇬🇧🇷🇺) Anna & Anora: A Russian Perspective
(🇬🇧🇷🇺) Anna & Anora: A Russian Perspective

Written by Anna Shakour/Анна Шакур English Review - SPOILER ALERT! A Cinderella story where the clock strikes 12 a little too early… Anora is one of those films that you just KNOW is going to be great. It is what the trailer shows and more - romantic, chaotic, entertaining,

by Anna Shakour
Oct 31, 2024 How to Build a Truth Engine
How to Build a Truth Engine

In the midst of the American Presidential Election, the subject matter of this George Clooney-produced Documentary couldn’t be more pressing. Alongside a noble effort to highlight the fallability of our current information ecosystem, a team of experts share their research, models and tools they have developed in the modern

by Umnia El-Neil
Oct 27, 2024 Holloway
Holloway

In the broken husk of a building that once housed and detained women of all kinds, sit a group of those same women, who bring to light the realities of what brought them to Holloway, and what mark it left on their lives. Once again, it reminds us that our

by Umnia El-Neil
Oct 27, 2024 Film Tea from BFI London Film Festival 2024 | SOPHISTICULTURE S02E05
Film Tea from BFI London Film Festival 2024 | SOPHISTICULTURE S02E05

Direct from our headquarters, our correspondent and CEO UMNIA gives you the full lowdown on the BFI Programme, and some amazing interviews and input from the coolest talent at LFF. Guest List: Susan Chardy, Lead Actress ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Sasha Nathwani, Director and Co-writer, ‘Last Swim’ Jazmin Jones

by Umnia El-Neil & Jack O'Mahoney
Oct 23, 2024 Queens of Drama: Sapphic Hannah Montana
Queens of Drama: Sapphic Hannah Montana

Oh, the price of pop music! Queens of Drama is a glittery, colourful, camp 2000’s fever dream, an ode to standom culture in it’s infancy, the toxicity of fame, the lure of pop culture. All wrapped up in a Lesbian love story for the ages - truthful, raunchy

by Umnia El-Neil
Trophy Case   -   Oct 22, 2024 Seeking Mavis Beacon: A lifestyle, a mirror, a portal.
Seeking Mavis Beacon: A lifestyle, a mirror, a portal.

My life is the way this documentary feels. Lifestyle. I have found it exceedingly hard to explain to people what it was like growing up as a Black girl on the internet when I was too young to be on the internet. ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ is the first document that

by Umnia El-Neil
Reviews   -   Oct 21, 2024 The Piano Lesson: A Haunting Halloween Watch
The Piano Lesson: A Haunting Halloween Watch

Ghost Story! It’s actually a ghost story you guys, fair warning! Adapted from the August Wilson play, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is theatre. There are no subtle performances, which would be entirely against the format of the material, which demands strong and robust emotional expression of all kinds - which

by Umnia El-Neil
Reviews   -   Oct 21, 2024 Hard Truths.
Hard Truths.

The average cinephile may turn their nose up at the visual style of this film - it’s very grounded, unpretentious, and starkly digital, giving the general British vibe of an episode of Eastenders, or maybe just what a student would film on a DSLR. This in no way is

by Umnia El-Neil
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