Short Film Review: Nostalgie
With nominations for the looming IFTA and BAFTA Awards, and ahead of Nostalgie’s screening at Dublin International Film Festival, Naemi Victoria looks back at Kathryn Ferguson’s powerful short.
Belfast-born Kathryn is an Emmy-nominated, BIFA and IFTA-winning director whose boundary-pushing documentaries have screened globally. Trained at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, she won the inaugural BFI & Chanel Award for Creative Audacity (2022). Her debut feature Nothing Compares premiered at Sundance 2022, earning 30+ award nominations, including Emmy, Critics Choice, and PGA, and is now on Showtime and Sky.
With nominations for the looming IFTA and BAFTA Awards, and ahead of Nostalgie’s screening at Dublin International Film Festival, Naemi Victoria looks back at Kathryn Ferguson’s powerful short.
In our latest podcast, Naemi Victoria chats with director Kathryn Ferguson about her short film Nostalgie, which is nominated for a BAFTA & IFTA.
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