The distribution map is redrawing itself
Cinema counts are up, but the growth is concentrated in three cities and one chain. What that concentration does to a mid-budget…
The Ledger
Every piece Qollom has run, in the order it ran.
The re-releases quietly filling arthouse slots
Restored prints and rights-cleared classics are doing the job new releases used to — filling single-screen houses on a Tuesday.
The Screen Score: Blue Hour Radio
A rare case where the room got there first. The audience score has been climbing for six weeks while the trade stayed…
Building a subtitle team from scratch
Six languages, one deadline, and the unglamorous work that decides whether a film travels at all.
Film Club 05: the opening shots we keep returning to
Members picked the first frame of a film over the last one this round. Here is what that says about how we…
Film Club 06: endings that earned their silence
No score, no line, just the cut to black — members debated which silent endings actually worked and which just ran out…
The doorway that never quite opens
A recurring composition across three unrelated films this year, and what it borrows from waiting rooms rather than thresholds.
A four-second pan, and what it costs to hold it
The unbroken pan across a market scene that three separate crews claimed took a full day to get right — and why…
The Screen Score: Harmattan Season
The trade admired the control. The room wanted the ending it was promised. Both are right, and the gap is the whole…