Nouvelle Vague
“The best way to critique a film is to make a film.” The provocative declaration belongs to Godard, but it’s Richard Linklater who reinvigorates it with NOUVELLE VAGUE’s reverence for the French New Wave.
Category Archives: CFF Reel Voices
Sirāt
SIRĀT is a film that purposefully defies expectation or strict genre classification. Beginning as a ‘found-family’ road-trip drama, it abruptly morphs into a painstakingly tension-fraught thrill ride, punctuated by moments crafted to shock and awe.
Salve Maria
SALVE MARIA is a rebellion against the sociological monomyth of the ‘immaculate mother’ and a rebellion against a literary inheritance that makes monsters out of the mother disturbed, and a captivating story which also renders visible those who are so frequently mythically distorted: women in crisis.
Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day
BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY by Croatian writer/director Ivona Juka presents the story of four filmmakers whose artistic, human, and sexual freedom hangs by a thread under Josip Broz Tito’s dictatorship. Shot in black and white, with incredible stylistic nuance and narrative depth, Juka’s LGBTQ drama is a monumental film of striking cultural importance.
We Live Here
WE LIVE HERE is a hard-hitting debut that questions the future of warfare and military action on a global scale, as well as presenting the catastrophic impact of nuclear weapons and radiation exposure.
News Without a Newsroom
For audiences interested in the effect of our shifting media landscape on democracy, the weaving of archival footage and personal stories with narrative momentum makes NEWS WITHOUT A NEWSROOM thoughtful, relevant, and well-timed.
TAKE ONE & CFF Reel Voices 2025
We’re delighted to share that we will be collaborating with Cambridge Film Festival and their education partner Anglia Ruskin University, in our role as media partner, on the CFF Reel Voices scheme.