Author: Joseph Jenkinson
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In promoting her haunting and tender short film Before You, writer-director Lauren Melinda speaks about transforming deeply personal pain into a cinematic act of empathy. The short follows a couple in the wake of a distressing decision: ending a planned pregnancy. Told with intimacy and restraint, the film explores the often-invisible grief of pregnancy loss and…
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Opening this year’s London Korean Film Festival, Frosted Window marks another exquisitely constructed mosaic from writer-director Kim Jong-kwan. The Korean filmmaker shapes his new work through three separate stories set across different seasons (Autumn, Summer, and Winter) in the Seoul neighbourhood of Seochon, intertwining them into a meditative portrait of love, desire, and disillusionment. By arranging…
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In his haunting new short film The Boy with White Skin (2024), French filmmaker Simon Panay continues his deep, almost anthropological exploration of Africa’s gold mining communities. The 15-minute film sees an albino boy entrusted to a group of gold miners by his father. The boy’s presence and voice in the mine are believed to…
