Nothing will be left but memories Sofie Cato Maas October 2022 Festival Reports French writer Roger Martin du Gard believed that there was more truth to be found in a memory itself than in a written down version in a diary. Despite this belief, he dedicated his life to writing and recordin...
Alberto Lattuada at the 74th Locarno Film Festival Sofie Cato Maas October 2021 Festival Reports “The cinema is unequaled for revealing all the basic truths about a nation.” Alberto Lattuada Two years since the last physical edition of Locarno, the festival’s message of hope is displayed brightly in bold...
Surviving You, Always: An Interview with Director Morgan Quaintance Sofie Cato Maas May 2021 Interviews Among the shorts selected for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at the much anticipated (partially) online 50th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), now under the new direction of Vanja...
A Mirror of the Ever-Changing Cinematic Landscape: the Eclectic Oeuvre of James Scott Sofie Cato Maas January 2021 Interviews When viewed in retrospect, the vast and versatile oeuvre of British director James Scott (b. 1941), the son of the famous abstract painter William Scott and sculptor Mary Scott, may be best described as a body ...
Reimagining the Film Festival Landscape in the Time of a Global Pandemic: The 27th Sheffield Doc/Fest Sofie Cato Maas July 2020 Festival Reports Cinema is one of those rare forms of art where the relation and tension between aesthetics and ideology, past and present, and formalism and realism, come forward. In such times when the lived reality seems to ...