Our final report from the Cambridge Film Festival is an interview with the director Farshad Aria, an Iranian director who has been working in Europe for decades now. It is a documentary that follows an Iranian refugee - a young girl by the name of Raya - as she tries to find food and shelter in Amsterdam. She is aware of the camera crew, who follow … [Read more...]

Sarah McIntosh, Short Film and Submissions Co-ordinator for the Festival talks us through the films screening in the two packages from Film Hub Central East - the BFI led organisation that looks after the East of England. those two packages are 'Documentaries' and "shorts". We also talk to three "shorts" filmmakers: the directors of Stockholm - … [Read more...]

Cambridge Film Festival programmer Bill Lawrence has a knack for programming the stranger of the international films on show. This year he's handled the Lech Majewski season, film recent films from the Polish director, with the director himself visiting for the whole strand. … [Read more...]

In the latest of our interviews from the 35th Cambridge Film Festival Mark Liversidge speaks to Timothy Wheeler, who rather brought the Cambridge Film Festival to a halt Monday when he premiered his documentary Poached.  Poached looks into the Hidden Britain of rare bird egg collecting, a childhood pursuit that has become a dangerous and illegal … [Read more...]