Locarno 2020: The Open Doors Experience Maria Giovanna Vagenas October 2020 Festival Reports Because of COVID-19, the structure of the 74th Locarno Film Festival was rethought. Under the motto “For the future of films” and opting for a hybrid form, Lily Hinstin and her team proposed a limited number of...
Back to Basics: The New Spirit of Cinéma du Réel Maria Giovanna Vagenas July 2019 Festival Reports In Paris, during the grey and wintry month of March, dazzling colours and geometric patterns on the famous glass and steel façade of the Centre Pompidou announced the Vasarely exhibition on the building’s top f...
The Frame as a Border: Defining Cinema’s Political Territories at the 56th Viennale Maria Giovanna Vagenas December 2018 Festival Reports In mid-October, slender, elegant pink flamingos appeared on the walls of buildings in the monumental and austere centre of the Austrian capital, announcing the imminent opening of one of the city's most importa...
