Sophia Satchell-Baeza

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Rachel Pronger |Sam Wigley

Romantic comedy is in a new era and some of the popular Noughties franchises are struggling to keep up with the changing times. Take And Just Like That… (2021-2025), the Sex and the City reboot that elevated so-called ‘woke’ rebranding to a high-camp art. It was absolutely unwatchable, yet I couldn’t look away.

Nov 28, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Jason Anderson |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Lillian Crawford |Clara Bradbury-Rance

Clair Titley’s short and shocking documentary tells the story of Hamatsu Tomoaki, who in 1998 was cast on a Japanese TV show to spend 15 months naked in an apartment, surviving on winnings from entering magazine contests. 28 November 2024As Hamatsu Tomoaki prepared to leave his Fukushima home and head to Tokyo in hopes of succeeding as a comedian, his parents gave him this advice: “Whatever you do, don’t get naked.” This may seem unusual.

Nov 21, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Lillian Crawford |Clara Bradbury-Rance

“Whenever I think of you, the taste of mango appears in my mouth. I’m transported back to all the times we ate them together.” With this opening address to her mother, filmmaker Chloe Abrahams ushers forth a stream of dreamlike images. The Taste of Mango, the British-Sri Lankan artist’s striking debut feature, is a domestic documentary portrait with a reparative and therapeutic purpose.

Oct 29, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Nick Bradshaw |Nick James |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Kelli Weston

Milisuthando Bongela was born and remembers a happy childhood in a Transkei, the first of white-run South Africa’s Black-assigned ‘homelands’ that was never recognised by most of the world. After apartheid and Transkei’s dissolution, she was one of the first Black children integrated into a mixed school in East London, South Africa, where she learned her inferiority in white eyes against the backdrop of Nelson Mandela’s grandfatherly coaxing of the would-be ‘rainbow nation’.

Oct 24, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Kelli Weston |Richard G. Combs

An orphaned child struggles to survive the insanities he encounters in the aftermath of the Second World War in Tsukamoto Shinya’s timely period drama. 17 October 2024Prolific since his breakthrough independent works of the 1980s and 90s (the Tetsuo films among them), Tsukamoto Shinya’s directorial output has slowed in the last decade.