“I like characters who can’t express themselves sometimes”: An Interview with Kazik Radwanski Susana Bessa May 2024 Interviews Matt and Mara (2024) was my first and last screening at this year’s Berlinale. I can’t remember the last time I saw the same film twice at a film festival. Very little could have prepared me for the beautifully...
A place to live in: An Interview with Leonor Teles Susana Bessa January 2024 Interviews Leonor Teles’s mirror-surfaced, headily constructed Baan opens at a moment of contemplation. Against the backdrop of a lilac-infused blue cityscape of the King Power MahaNakhon, the legendary Bangkok skyscraper...
Setting the World Ablaze: Notes from the 30th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival Susana Bessa October 2022 Festival Reports Skimming through my many scribbles in a desired attempt to describe what Curtas Vila do Conde means 30 years into its instalment in Portugal’s now ever-growing film festival scene, the word I found I wrote down...
