NFF2023 Event Review: Women In Film
This year’s selection of Women in Film shorts offered up a rich and varied experience. It is impressive that all five films, being shown in quick succession, managed to stay
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Interview: Hugo Le Gourrierec (Director of ‘Pipo and Blind Love’)
Interview by Niamh Brook Could you give us a little introduction to yourself? My name is Hugo Le Gourrierec. I’m 30 years old and I’m from Chambéry in the French
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Filmmaker Spotlight: Hirokazu Koreeda
Written by Patricia Xu “I’ve learned to value ordinary life. And I still have a wish to portray that.” – Hirokazu Koreeda Hirokazu Koreeda is one of the greatest contemporary
Minari (2020) – Film Review
Review by Patricia Xu A Korean family makes a new start in Arkansas in the 1980s, where they find new challenges and struggles in the farming business and from within
Interview: “This Time Away” director Magali Barbé
At last year’s festival, we were delighted to screen a brilliant little film called This Time Away. The film stars legendary British actor Timothy Spall as a reclusive elderly man haunted
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Why Tangerine (2015) is more relevant than ever this International Women’s Day
To celebrate International Women’s Day, NFF volunteer Rhiannon Talbot-Arnold takes a look at the fruitful message underneath the skin of Sean Baker’s 2015 film Tangerine and explains why it’s more relevant
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Confessions (2010) – Film Review
Confessions (natively known as Kokuhaku) is a difficult film to review as a single picture, since it really doesn’t feel like it is one. The 2010 revenge-focused crime/mystery thriller, directed
An interview with ‘Infinite’ director Connor O’Hara
Back in 2017, our Official Selection included a little film called Infinite. This brilliant narrative short follows a young man (played by 1917 star George Mackay) who attempts to make his existence infinite
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Event Review – The Souvenir
At our previous festival in November 2019, we were thrilled to host a screening of The Souvenir, along with a specially-filmed introduction from Honor Swinton Byrne and a post-screening Q&A with
Andhadhun – Film Review
The hardest part about discussing Andhadhun (2018) is the fact that there is no way to explain any aspects of the plot without somewhat ruining it. Any attempt at simplification