“I wanted to raise the question; why do we need this cheap labour?” Interview with Elias Demetriou on his film ‘Maricel’ at the Manchester Film festival 2026
I sat down with director Elias Demetriou to talk about his film ‘Maricel’ which follows a Filipino domestic worker in Cyprus caring for an elderly couple who have a lot of unspoken family drama.
Mark Jenkin has since produced a trilogy of Cornish films. The latest of these, Rose of Nevada, played at this year’s Manchester Film Festival and will shortly be going on a UK-wide tour before coming to cinemas nationwide on the 24th April.
Being Ola is a new documentary film coming to UK theatres – a Norwegian film that follows Ola Henningsen, a resident of a small village for people with learning disabilities. The film’s director, Ragnhild Nøst Bergem, and star Ola spoke to me all about it
Ahead of its world premiere at the Manchester Film Festival, Chris Green, director of Manchester filmed and based thriller Synthesized, spoke to us about the film.
A highlight from this year’s Manchester Film Festival, Lady is the debut feature from Samuel Abrahams. Starring Sian Clifford (Fleabag), the film follows a documentary filmmaker who has been employed to document the artistic journey of a deeply eccentric aristocratic woman.
Ahead of its Manchester Premiere at the upcoming Manchester Film Festival, I sat down with Harry Sherriff and Laurence Tratalos, director and writer of Misper – a dark comedy about a missing person and how the employees of a fading seaside hotel are affected by her disappearance
