Author Olaf Möller

In the very midst of Covid-19's early panic days, I went for the first time ever to a drive-in theatre; a friend of mine took me there, in good parts because she couldn't believe that the man who'd seemingly se...

  17-22 March 2009 In the years since the Emergency Diagonale and the festival’s defence at the hands of Austria’s filmmaking community against a coup attempt by the government, the country’s second-...

18–26 April 2008 Udine’s Far East Film Festival celebrated its tenth anniversary in the only style honourable and becoming: by simply performing its function as fine as ever, resulting in a program gener...

29 October – 4 November 2007 The main reason I went to the Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Films this year was the retrospective: the festival turned 50, something like 20 pro...

20-29 April 2007 Udine’s Far East Film Festival remains a gathering place of choice for those truly serious about East and Southeast Asian cinemas: for those who really care about the cultures – right or...

10–18 November 2006 The Torino Film Festival is quite comfortable with being the No. 2 among Italy’s main events in cinema: it has just about all the respect granted Venice but few of the Biennale’s prob...

March 21–26, 2006 After the screening of Florian Flicker’s No Name City (2006), basically everybody at the Diagonale’s opening agreed that this tall verité tale about the internal troubles’n’struggles in...

April 21–29, 2006 “No to Chinese Goods”, howled a cluster of Lega Nord-campaign posters from a downtown Udine wall when on the 21st of April the 8th Far East Film Festival opened in Friuli’s main city. T...

November 11–19, 2005 In the last few years, the Torino Film Festival (originally called Cinema Giovani) has gained something of an international reputation as one of Europe film culture’s Must-Attend Eve...

Möller affectionately discusses the films, writing and philosophy of the cineastes who wrote for German film magazine, Filmkritik, a culture or 'movement' strong enough to rival Cahiers.