The Voice of Hind Rajab - DMovies Five-year-old girl trapped inside car with six dead relatives begs for help over the telephone, in Kaouther Ben Hania's horrifyingly real register of the Gaza Genocide - on VoD on Monday, April 13th

"A real, raw, unflinching and unfiltered picture of Israel’s unspeakable atrocities"

Now on various VoD platforms:

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What to look out for at the 2026 IFL Awards Suddenly, we’re half way through April – and our 2025 festival is just two weeks away. We will begin with an international showcase on the 2nd of May, at 16:00. For the first time, I…

You can join us for two days of films this May! Our annual #filmfestival is hitting screens in #Amsterdam on the 2nd and 3rd. Here's some of the great stuff you can check out!

#independentcinema #tickets #shortfilms #nederland #netherlands

1. horror
2. action
3. Psychedelic coming of age
4. Intimate character study and also a killer cult movie, both at once

I continue to be amazed that the 28 series has four good movies, none of which are the same genre

There were reports before Bone Temple was released that Part III was already green-lit. But I've been hurt before - it took 18 years to get a third movie already. Also this was the first 28 film to make a loss at the box office, and that gives me sinking feeling.

Because if there's one person you need advice from about defeating the far right, it's Hillary Clinton.

Noa-Lynn van Leuven's statement is consigned to the back-end of her own story - where it is immediately undermined by Aaron Bower's tone-deaf (if we're being charitable) addition that suggests her lived experience doesn't really matter.

There's this playing dumb around the way an article is written - by people who cannot feasibly have so little media literacy - where we pretend that when and where you lay out different pieces of context, or where you place a source's quote, is apolitical. And that is utterly disingenuous.

Guardian casually ending an article about the erasure of trans women from public life, by concluding, "It's not so bad - you're still welcome in the same spaces as men" is pretty heinous.

The Guardian is not telling the whole story here. Implying that medical shortages, particularly cancer drugs, are a Hormuz supply chain issue from India ignores THE REAL REASON Iran enriches uranium: radiopharmaceuticals... 🇮🇷
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Here’s the danger: if Labour doesn’t offer a radical solution to the energy-price crisis, others will Money-off vouchers won’t do. Instead, the government needs to offer a lasting vision for energy security – because we already know what Reform’s is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Writing history with Smoke/Stack Lightning: Sinners, and overcoming the limitations of white liberalism Sinners is a truly remarkable movie, with Ryan Coogler cashing in his franchise filmmaking credit to tell a unique story that depicts people and politics that conservatives around the world would l…

"Long ago... the men who stole my father's land forced these words upon us. I hated those men, but the words still bring me comfort."

Happy St Patrick's Day.

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#sinners #review #irishheritage #racism #blackhistory #deltablues

If Sir Kid Starver likes you, you need to take a long hard look at yourself. If he finds you 'intolerable', that's badge of honour stuff.

I hope you are right!

The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Slop Machine One of the excuses proponents of AI ‘art’ fall back on is that what their plagiarism is just a continuation of creators ‘stealing’ each other’s ideas. But that misrepresents the cycle of feedback w…

The ##Gorillaz short film for #TheMountain shows the difference between cultural regeneration, and AI plagiarism.

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Sadly, there's zero chance this ends up anywhere but tech bro mansions, and maybe the most expensive care homes.

To be, or not to be As Hamnet reduces audiences to floods of tears in the run-up to the 2026 Oscars ceremony, I must admit I was wrong to write it off as another award-season-by-numbers grind. It is a stunning piece o…

If we are to take arms against a sea of troubles, we must remain connected to the loves and losses which inspire us. indyfilmlibrary.com/2026/02/23/t...

#hamnet #review #filmsky #oscars #Shakespeare #hamlet

Pretty stunning, considering what the BBC DID decide to air on the same night...

It's time to abolish the Monarchy.

But if you go down that route, you end up asking questions about the whole set-up that are very uncomfortable, so I guess he's just Mountbatten-Windsor now...

The idea "oh no, his actions are unbecoming of a prince" is absolute nonsense. Look at the history of monarchies anywhere and you soon realise Andrew behaved exactly as princes have done for hundreds of years, with absolute impunity.

Prince Andrew is still a prince. Calling him Mountbatten-Windsor is an ideological sleight of hand. Dropping the title allows the establishment to distance themselves from him - but everything he did was enabled by power and privilege afforded to him by the monarchy and the British state.

Cost of living crisis laid bare as almost half of Britons ‘have £25 at end of week’ Exclusive: Majority of UK adults forced to make difficult choices, with almost two-thirds found to be cutting back on essentials like food and heating

Cost of living crisis laid bare as almost half of Britons ‘have under £25 left at end of week’.

Real average wage unchanged since 2008.

24m Britons live below minimum living standard.

Poverty doesn't provide economic growth, justice, social stability.

Stuk/gemaakt [Broken/Healed] (2025) – 1.5 stars Director: Richard Dijkema Writer: Richard Dijkema Cast: Carlijn van Rij, Joy Douglas Running time: 45mins Not every filmmaker discloses how much their production costs when they submit a film to Indy Film Library. But of those who do, since 2019, we have given 14 films with a production budget under €10,000 a 4.5 or 5-star review. In the last two years, that has included some really breathtaking projects, like…

"A story in which someone resolves that her horrific memories would be in some way necessary in order to help other people, is a sacrificial trope which will likely make some viewers feel very uncomfortable."

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

#HeritageFoundation #Project2025

Little Bigfoot II: One for the family? When I was gifted both parts of the Little Bigfoot saga this Christmas, I was expecting a couple of cheap laughs at the movies' expense - and then to move on. But while the first film certainly delivers on that front - the second seems to deliver something completely unexpected: a legitimately funny introduction to B-movie schlock for all the family.

Little Bigfoot II: One for the family?

When I was gifted both parts of the Little Bigfoot saga this Christmas, I was expecting a couple of cheap laughs at the movies' expense - and then to move on. But while the first film certainly delivers on that front - the second seems to deliver something…

This is such an amazing piece.

Newcastle’s Saudi vision is shrouded in bleak suspicion and unfulfilled promises | Jonathan Liew Vivid dreamscape sold to fans in 2021 is yet to materialise amid layers upon layers of economics and geopolitics

Jonathan Liew remains the finest UK sports journalist. A generational writing talent. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Saturday Matinees Preview: Adas Falasteen [Palestine Lentils] (2024) Directors: Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini & Samar Taher Lulu Running time: 8mins Film festivals are expensive – and so they often struggle to break even, let alone make a profit. With submission fees often posing as the only dependable source of revenue that many festivals have access to, that can make granting waivers difficult. Stories told by artists working on a shoe-string budget, or who are hit by censorship, or subjected to international sanctions, still need a platform, though.

I pray that once you’ve seen this film, every time you sit down to a meal, you think of Chef Khalil AlNajjar, and those barrels of lentils. Not just food, but hope.
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