Arta Barzanji on Sylvain George’s ‘Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere’ (2023), an intimate, roving account of young refugees living in the buffer city of Melilla.
Nelson Makengo: Mapping Darkness Through Faith
Xavier Alexandre Pillai writes about Nelson Makengo’s debut feature documentary Rising Up At Night.
Turbulence & Jouissance: An Interview with Sofia Theodore-Pierce
Ruairí McCann spoke with Theodore-Pierce about their work, familial and artistic influences, being a teaching artist and more.
Visualising the Palestinian Struggle: Khadijeh Habashneh and the Palestine Film Unit
Leena Habiballa on filmmaker and scholar Khadijeh Habashneh, the Palestine Film Unit and their mission of revolutionary struggle through cinema.
Three Promises: A Cinematic Journey into Love, Loss, and the Untold Stories of Palestine
Hoor ElShafei reports from the Reel Palestine festival in Dubai.
A Statement on the 74th Berlinale
We, the editors of Ultra Dogme, would like to reiterate our support for the Strike Germany campaign.
Apparitions Strange and Familiar: The Film and Video Works of Nour Ouayda
Coinciding with this month’s Movie Club screening of Nour Ouayda’s THE SECRET GARDEN (2023), we present a text on Ouayda’s oeuvre.
Loneliness and Longing: When the Apocalypse is Over
Winnie Wang writes about “When the Apocalypse is Over” — a series of contemporary films from the Philippines opening this February at BAM.
Cinema of the Sun, Moon & Stars: An Interview with Sylvia Schedelbauer
On the occasion of a retrospective at 25 FPS Festival in Zagreb, Ejla Kovačević interviews German-Japanese film artist Sylvia Schedelbauer
3 Songs That Got Us Through 2023
The editors and many of this year’s contributors of Ultra Dogme each give 3 song picks to mark the end of the year.