Amber Wilkinson

1 week ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Amber Wilkinson

This 12-minute short film from Sergei Loznitsa feels like a bite-sized companion piece to his Cannes-screened The Invasion, which immersed us in many of life’s rituals in Ukraine – notably births, marriages and deaths – under the shadow of Russian aggression. Death is, in a way, on display, as we spend a few minutes in the company of children and their guide at Kyiv’s Natural History Museum. It begins with talk of bombings from the staff taking shelter after a warning.

1 week ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Amber Wilkinson

How To Train Your Dragon and Deep Cover in Tribeca line-up as full list of features announced Photo: Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Tribeca Film Festival announced its main feature line-up yesterday, with films including Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful, described as a "visual album" companion piece to her album of the same name and Mariska Hargitay's documentary about her mother Jayne Mansfield.

1 week ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Amber Wilkinson

Rand Beiruty transports us into the life of Ahlam, a survivor of child marriage, as she recounts her flight from Iraq, which thanks to animation means not just reproducing her physical steps but putting us into her headspace. It’s a technique that has been increasingly employed recently, most notably in animated feature Flee, and it has the advantage of not only adding an additional psychological dimension to the testimony but also ensuring the anonymity of the speaker is protected.

1 week ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Amber Wilkinson

Sasha Pirker’s Everyone Deserves A Slice Of The Pie may only be 16 minutes long but every second of it is jam-packed. Through the course of this playful short, she will take us on a journey through thrown pies of cinematic history, with a sideways look at Anna Pavlova, who gave her name to a meringue cake which we will see creates the perfect explosion.

1 week ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Amber Wilkinson

Documentaries don’t necessarily need an arc but some sort of structure helps and while Marie Voignier’s Anamocot touches on interesting subjects, including the enduring shadows of colonialism and patriarchal dominance, it is so loosely constructed that it starts to fall apart. The setting is Cameroon. The central African country has seen more than its fair share of colonialism, having been ruled by Germany, Britain and France at various points in its history.