Amber Wilkinson

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

Evgenia Dodina and Martin Ogbu in Mama. Or Sinai on the migrant workers she spoke to when researching her script: 'They build these temporary identities – her life is full, even in Israel' Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival The two worlds of a Polish migrant worker are explored in Or Sinai’s impressive debut film.

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

The programme for the 4th Evia Project has been announced. The green initiative, run by Thessaloniki Film Festival, will run on the Greek island from June 17 to 21 and this year has the notion of the Greek summer at heart. The event, which was originally started in response to a devastating wildfire on the island continues to have a focus on sustainability and the environment.

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

Animation has been taking a very dim view of mankind lately. Humans are barely present – and in no way positive – in The Wild Robot, and they appear to have completely fallen to environmental disaster in Oscar-winner Flow. Dandelion's Odyssey goes one step further and actually shows the Apocalyptic moment we destroy ourselves, via a giant mushroom cloud. This event is witnessed by four dandelion seeds which, despite the devastation, are still determined to find somewhere to put down their roots.

2 weeks ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Amber Wilkinson

Like its fellow Directors’ Factory entry Learn To Read The Wind, this collaboration between Brazilian filmmaker Wara and Israeli Sivan Noam Shimon is an impressive example of world building, although it relies quite heavily on voice-over to set the scene, when visuals could be used to do more of the ‘talking’. The action unfolds in the mangroves where we’re told “a man with unlimited powers demanded descendants”.

2 weeks ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Amber Wilkinson

One of those tantalising shorts that, though self-contained, feels as though it could easily expand into a feature, Brazilian director Bernardo Ale Abinader and French filmmaker Sharon Hakim immediately immerse us in the world of Marjorie (Isabela Catão) as she walks over sand dunes hunting for a precious herb.