Good luck! Interested to hear how many stuck with it. Hopefully those that do at least give it the love it deserves.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024)

A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014)

This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi, 2011)

At Five in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf, 2003)

"The House is Black" (1963) 🇮🇷 Dir. Forugh Farrokhzad 🎼 Carl Orff - Gassenhauer 🎼 YouTube video by Giba Mazzo

The House is Black (Forough Farokhzad, 1962) youtube.com/watch?v=V_y9...

Where is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)

The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui, 1968)

Arsenal have pretty much the deepest squad in world football. And also maybe the most functional conveyor belt from academy to first 11. I'd call that sustainable! (I'm a Liverpool fan)

The BAFTSS EC is delighted to announce the 2026 Outstanding Achievement Award recipient: the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive.

For more details please see the BAFTSS website:
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Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

If this is of interest and you have trouble accessing the article, please get in touch and I'll be more than happy to help!

In both, I work with and build upon significant theories of diaspora art from the 1980s school of Black British Cultural Studies, in order to understand how contemporary diaspora screen media represents both a continuation and a radical challenge to historical representations.

The article is a shortened version of a larger argument I make in my upcoming book on Diaspora Screen Aesthetics (Bloomsbury 2028).

I analyse recent films including Mogul Mowgli, In Camera and Sky Peals, exploring how each challenges tropes of race and gender, as well as reductive (ethnocentric) conceptions of 'masculinity in crisis'.

Happy to share my new article in Film International: 'Brown Mirror: Masculinity Crisis in Contemporary British-South Asian Cinema'. lnkd.in/eRe9fR5K

Agreed. Overrated. And I'm surprised we're in the minority.

Just got out of Sirât. Full of ironies. For instance, a lot said about its "unforgettable"/"unique" qualities. But nobody told me it managed to forget the people living in "the desert" of North Africa in a way that is sadly not very unique. A film that's all about sound - but it's tone deaf.

Feminist Media Studies colleagues, I was looking at the most read and most cited articles in Feminist Media Studies this week, and the patterns are striking. A short thread on what seems to be shaping the field right now:

Hope the cycle broke!

Great point

Low Rider | BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2026 Campbell X’s long-awaited second feature takes us on a fun ride across South Africa.

My second feature Low Rider screens in BFI Flare 21/22 March.
It stars Emma McDonald and Thishiwe Ziqubu. A dual heritage Londoner goes looking for her absent South African father, but a chance encounter forces her to deal with her own demons on the road. whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online...

SCMSSP Alternative Conference - Conference Schedule Conference Schedule March 25-March 29, 2026

Very excited to be participating in Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine Conference. What an amazing lineup of speakers they've put together! You can check out the full schedule below. Honored to be among them.

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Lecturer or Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, School for Studies in Art and Culture (Film Studies) - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Planning) About the Position The School for Studies in Art and Culture invites applications for a one-year appointment at the rank of Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, beginning 1 July 2026, from q...

Want to come work in my Film Studies department in Ottawa, Canada, for a year? Application deadline is March 6. All areas of specialization welcome. Please spread the word! @carleton.ca carleton.ca/deputyprovos... #filmstudies #jobopportunity

I strongly relate! The new ones I'm getting a lot are "I did watch some clips" or "obviously I've seen clips on TikTok".

Shocking!

Fabulous!? 😭

Watching Xmas films, it finally clicked who Selena Gomez's clipped voice quirk reminds me of. Mara Wilson didn't quit acting after all!

Yasujirô Ozu was born on this day in 1903 and died on this day in 1963.