Thirtysomething Yousra, a former African Karate champion, now works as an Aikido teacher. She's always wanted to start a family but has yet to realize it yet and decides to recourse to a matrimonial agency. Her first date recommended by the agency turns tragic when the man is murdered before her eyes and she finds herself in the newspaper headlines accused of his murder.
Ultimately the problem with The Bubble is that it plays everything for laughs to get around the audience’s defenses. But it comes off like a privileged white male thinking that ridiculing everyone else equally is the road to equality. And it’s not. And it's definitely not funny to pretend that it is.
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.
It’s the most loving tribute to cinema and to Ingmar Bergman, set in world that feels so habitable that I felt like only re-watching this for eternity, because of how inviting it looks and feels.
In this short film, writer/director Nikita Hattangady focuses on Jai, a starving artist rooted in the latter category. Though unhoused, he works hard.
As an Indian lesbian living in the United Kingdom, the cards are stacked against Geetika from the start.
We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.
