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      Image, Unleashed (Or, Air-Conditioning in the Bamboo Forest): A Dispatch from the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival

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Author Chris Berry

Chris Berry

Chris Berry teaches at King's College London. He has written widely on East Asian cinema, and in particular Chinese cinema.

A Vintage Year – the 21st Far East Film Festival

Chris Berry
July 2019
Festival Reports
Udine’s Far East Film Festival celebrated its twenty-first birthday with a vintage selection of excellent films. Despite a public funding cut of 150,000 euros, FEFF screened 77 films from East Asia with over 60...
No. 1 Chung Yung Street (Sung Kee Chiu, 2018)

New Achievements, New Challenges: The 20th Far East Film Festival

Chris Berry
June 2018
Festival Reports
Chalking up 20 editions is a big achievement for any film festival. After surviving the 2008 financial crisis and growing to include a significant range of industry and market-related events, FEFF had a rightly...
Far East Film Festival

The China Factor: The 18th Far East Film Festival

Chris Berry
July 2016
Festival Reports
Looking back at my review of the 17th Far East Film Festival (Senses of Cinema no.75), most of my themes from last year extend into this year. There were strong archive and retrospective sidebars again, with re...
Far East Film Festival 2015 review

Udine Believes in Tears: The 17th Far East Film Festival

Chris Berry
June 2015
Festival Reports
The general mood at the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine this year was tearful – but in a good way. First, there were tears of joys at the festival’s health and prosperity. FEFF has ridden out the storm o...

Hanging on in There:  Hong Kong Popular Cinema Featured at the 16th Far East Film Festival

Chris Berry
June 2014
Festival Reports
“Hong Kong Calling!” Europe’s leading festival of Asian popular cinema, the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine, Italy, announced the theme for its 16th edition with this press release strapline in early Mar...

Mainland Chinese Genre Cinema Comes of Age: The 15th Far East Film Festival

Chris Berry
June 2013
Festival Reports
Udine's Far East Film Festival (FEFF) is Europe's only festival focused on East Asian popular cinema. It is also one of the most pleasant and relaxed to attend. Winter has finally gone and you can sit outside b...

Save the Panda: the 14th Far East Film Festival

Chris Berry
July 2012
Festival Reports
The Far East Film Festival has ever-increasing audience numbers and takes place at the more prosperous end of the Italian peninsula, in the charming Friuli town of Udine. Nevertheless, it is not immune from the...

Taking Laughter Seriously: The 13th Far East Film Festival

Chris Berry
June 2011
Festival Reports
I have a confession to make. I have known about Udine’s Far East Film Festival (FEFF) since its inception in 1999. But somehow I had never made it until this year. After a shamefully short flying visit, I know ...

When is a film festival not a festival?: The 6th China Independent Film Festival

Chris Berry
December 2009
Festival Reports
When is a film festival not a film festival? In China the answer is, when it’s an exhibition. The Chinese title of the China Independent Film Festival (CIFF) is “Zhongguo Duli Yingxiang Niandu Zhan”. That trans...

Centre of the East: The 44th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Chris Berry
September 2009
Festival Reports

Bigger than Ever: The 12th Shanghai International Film Festival

Chris Berry
September 2009
Festival Reports
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10 Years Young: The Shanghai International Film Festival

Chris Berry
November 2007
Festival Reports
16-24 June 2007 What makes a film festival successful today? My first visit to Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has made me wonder. SIFF celebrated its tenth anniversary in June, so I decided ...

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