Festival Reports

In attempting to encircle the potential thesis that inhabits the very nucleus of the curatorial composition for this year’s edition of the Flaherty Se...

Lido, Venice. The Venice Film Festival is always a sizzling event, with the glitz and glamour of numerous major stars (e.g. Antonio Banderas, George ...

The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival was not without its controversies.  By far the biggest story to come out of TIFF 2024 w...

Much of the news before and after the Locarno Film Festival this year concerned the appointment of a new president of the festival, Maja Hoffmann, aft...

With an acknowledgement of thanks to Fabrizio Fogliato On 25 September 1967, a Milan bank-heist went violently, tragically awry: as the escaping ro...

First, a bit of news from the front. Those who have been following some of the local drama outlined in my last dispatch from the San Francisco Silent ...

The only thing to discover at The Nitrate Picture Show is the past. With an entire slate of programming consisting of nothing besides rare nitrate pri...

Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) is one of the few remaining international film festivals in the Chinese-speaking world that celebrate...

Most of the years I have attended the Cannes Film Festival, it has felt futile to try to explain in just a few words – besides “great” or “amazing” – ...

Whether local or visiting festival-goers, distinguished or emerging filmmakers, industry professionals or members of the press, few attendees would ha...

It is customary in China’s film festival environment for there to be is almost no information on the upcoming edition of a festival until the last two...

Ōtaki is a small town on the southern side of Te Ika-a-Māui, the North Island of Aotearoa. Like many small towns in New Zealand, Ōtaki centres on a qu...

Those visiting Copenhagen for the first time to attend CPH:DOX, the country’s leading international documentary film festival, which ran from the 13th...

In the years – decades even, or so it sometimes feels – that I have been dashing off these festival reports, I have never put pen to paper in a state ...

Launched in 1987, the queer film-celebrating, multiple-category Teddy Award has existed for more than half the nigh-on three-quarters of a century lif...

The day I arrived in the Netherlands was the same day that the provisional measures request from South Africa in their genocide case against Israel wa...

After the zero-Covid policy lockdown pushed the previous edition of Pingyao International Film Festival to January 2023, Jia Zhangke and the festival ...

Does protest work? Can cinema make a difference?  These were the two questions implicitly posed by "Film and Protest: Popular Uprisings in the Co...

With input from Subrat Beura Several film enthusiasts in the city of Bhubaneshwar, Odisha warmly embraced several independent films screened between ...

In the middle of last October, DocLisboa presented again, as a window on the present – its tagline: “In October, the whole world fits in Lisbon”. Impo...

The mid-1980s ushered in an unprecedented flourishing of a vibrant, fervent cinephile culture in Tokyo. The bubble economy was in full swing, some of ...

Five hundred-plus films and a cold, dark Baltic city filled with medieval churches and Soviet high-rises: what more could a cinephile ask for? Where y...

The stand-out film of the 2023 Nippon Connection – although the ‘Visions’ jury in Frankfurt didn’t agree with me – was Amiko, (Kochira Amiko, 2022), w...

Some background The only way to begin responsibly is with some facts about the status of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, the long-time home of t...