When Hou Met Kuriyami: The Hong Kong International Film Festival Turns 30 Ben Cho July 2006 Festival Reports April 4–19, 2006 My opening night schedule was planned with the kind of meticulous care which would have even made Michael Haneke proud (althou...
Asia the Mighty, Asia da Rude: Places of Plenty: The 8th Far East Film Festival of Udine Olaf Möller July 2006 Festival Reports 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 th...
The State of Things Part Two: More Images for a Post-Wall German Reality: The 56th Berlin Film Festival Marco Abel May 2006 Festival Reports February 10–20, 2006 Last year, I took the opportunity to write for this journal on the state of affairs of contemporary German cinema in the form ...
Gender Trouble: The 25th Sundance Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud May 2006 Festival Reports January 19–29, 2006 One of the coldest festivals in recent memory, the 2006 edition left most of us with a bittersweet taste. There were some n...
A Century of Sino-Cinema: Lincoln Center Presents 100 Years of Chinese Filmmaking Liza Case May 2006 Festival Reports October 21–November 10, 2005 The earliest evidence of filmmaking in China, by Chinese people, dates to 1905, when a photographer named Ren Jing...
Stop Motion: Transformation and Stasis at the NYFF’s Views from the Avant-Garde Jared Rapfogel May 2006 Festival Reports October 1–2, 2005 Packed tightly into two demanding, marathon-like days, this year’s annual New York Film Festival component Views from the Ava...
The Poetic and the Pop: The 43rd Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale) Michelle Carey May 2006 Festival Reports October 13–26, 2005 As a daring and cinephiliac event, the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale) shares its programming philosophy with...
Defining Independence: Independence Days at International Thessaloniki Film Festival Richard Porton May 2006 Festival Reports November 18–27, 2005 “Independent Cinema” is one of the most slippery categories in the lexicon of contemporary film criticism. The Thessalonik...
The World Before Our Eyes: Taipei International Film Festival Brian Hu May 2006 Festival Reports June 26–July 7, 2005 Is there no better metaphor for the ubiquitous “international film festival” than the theme park at the center of Jia Zhan...
Speaking through Cinema: The 35th International Film Festival Rotterdam Genevieve Yue May 2006 Festival Reports January 25–February 5, 2006 In the shadow of Rotterdam’s better-known attractions – the VPRO Tiger Competition for new filmmakers, the flurry o...
Queer and Queerer, or Fucking Different: The 16th Melbourne Queer Film Festival Cerise Howard May 2006 Festival Reports March 2–12, 2006 The 2006 Commonwealth Games’ wholesale usurpation of Melbourne events calendars impacted upon the scheduling of this year’s MQ...
Of Markets and Men: AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival and American Film Market (AFM) Bérénice Reynaud May 2006 Festival Reports AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival November 3–13, 2005 American Film Market (AFM) November 2–9, 2005 Berlin and Cannes have marke...
Deux Fois: Some Thoughts on the 24th Vancouver International Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud February 2006 Festival Reports September 29–October 14, 2005 Cinema is still a young art compared to the first six – yet it is not exempt from a certain lassitude. There is n...
In a Box (Canyon) and on a Line: The 32nd Telluride Film Festival Sarah A. Heller February 2006 Festival Reports September 2–5, 2005 Geographically speaking, the Telluride Film Festival takes place on a line, a border of sorts. But this line need not be ta...
My Un-queer Pusan: Or How I Got into an Argument with The Unforgiven: The 10th Pusan International Film Festival Paolo Bertolin February 2006 Festival Reports October 6–14, 2005 The 10th edition of Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), which ran 6-14 October 2005, was a well-concerted celebration ...
Three Flavours of Polish Films’ Rejuvenation and Stability: The 30th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia Renata Murawska February 2006 Festival Reports September 12–17, 2005 The flavour of the Polish Feature Film Festival in the coastal Gdynia is defined not only by the screened films, but also...
What Price Cinema?: A Report from the 43rd New York Film Festival Kevin Lee February 2006 Festival Reports September 23–October 9, 2005 I would be remiss if this year’s recap of the New York Film Festival neglected a tip of the hat to my predecessor,...
Imagining Iran: A Symposium on Iranian Cinema Greg Dolgopolov February 2006 Festival Reports November 18, 2005 School of Media, Film & Theatre, University of New South Wales Censorship, lepers, allegory, half-made cinema, self-cons...
Between Seeing and Memory: A Report on the 62nd Venice Film Festival Saul Symonds February 2006 Festival Reports August 31–September 10, 2005 The day after the 62nd Venice Film Festival has ended (and only hours after leaving the closing night party, which...
Ambiguous Adventures: The 23rd Torino Film Festival Olaf Möller February 2006 Festival Reports November 11–19, 2005 In the last few years, the Torino Film Festival (originally called Cinema Giovani) has gained something of an internationa...
Towards World Domination: The 30th Toronto International Film Festival Dan Sallitt February 2006 Festival Reports September 8–17, 2005 Returning to the Toronto Film Festival after missing last year’s event, I noticed that the enterprise had moved a few more...
Looking Both Ways: The 54th Melbourne International Film Festival Bill Mousoulis October 2005 Festival Reports July 20–August 7, 2005 Question: Why did the film festival cross the road? Answer: Because it didn't know how to go either left or right. In he...
Reduced Quantity, Increased Quality, New Opportunities: The 22nd St Kilda Film Festival Boris Trbic October 2005 Festival Reports May 24-29, 2005 Australian Shorts This year's St Kilda Film Festival (SKFF), held in Melbourne's famous beachside suburb, introduced some change...
Some Gems in a Modest Program: The 52nd Sydney Film Festival Hamish Ford October 2005 Festival Reports June 10–25, 2005 Despite procuring State Government funding, the 52nd Sydney Film Festival featured a reduced number of films (170) compared ...
The Bleeding Eyes of a Festival Regular: The 14th Brisbane International Film Festival Matthew Clayfield October 2005 Festival Reports July 27–August 8, 2005 An Introductory Note on Methodology “I'm going to see so much that my eyes are going to bleed!” I told my friend Mark e...
Singing with a Purpose: Wartime Propaganda and Other Themes: The 19th Cinema Ritrovato Jay Weissberg October 2005 Festival Reports July 2–9, 2005 Few, if any, film festivals can match the extraordinary range of material on offer at Bologna's Cinema Ritrovato, now in its 1...
A Latin American Gaze: Mar del Plata International Film Festival Fernando Madedo October 2005 Festival Reports March 10-20, 2005 Translated by Carlos Morreo Cinema and Politics: A Brief Historical Recount of the Festival During the opening night of t...
Revealing Revelation: The Fiction, the Facts & the Subversion: Revelation 8: Perth International Film Festival Tanya Vision October 2005 Festival Reports June 30–July 10, 2005 “Exhibition in Crisis: Who's Stolen the Crown Jewels”, was one of the conference sessions at the Revelation Screen Fest...
The Cannes Files: (some para-text to Cannes 2005): Cannes International Film Festival Paolo Bertolin July 2005 Festival Reports May 11–22, 2005 Front cover: disclaimer? I returned from Cannes with my mind full of images, reflections and discussions about the 48 films fr...
The Search for Space in Singapore: A Review of the 18th Singapore International Film Festival Benjamin McKay July 2005 Festival Reports April 14–30, 2005 The Film Festival (strange beast that it is) is itself a definable space. For two to three weeks the industry comes together...
Blinking by the Bosphorus: Discoveries at the 24th International Istanbul Film Festival Bilge Ebiri July 2005 Festival Reports April 2-17, 2005 Attending a film festival in Istanbul is a distracting experience. That’s not to say that the International Istanbul Film Fe...
Hustle with Speed: The 29th Hong Kong International Film Festival Charles Leary July 2005 Festival Reports March 22–April 6, 2005 The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), finishing its 29th installment this past April, has long been a sop...
Easy on the Relish: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival 2005 Brandon Wee July 2005 Festival Reports April 22–May 1, 2005 The festival’s publicity posters are modest but striking, and volunteer a definition of “documentary”. Like Mark Rothko ...
Dead End Kids: The 16th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Ioannis Mookas July 2005 Festival Reports June 9-23, 2005 Around Memorial Day in New York, it’s not unusual to hear cinephiles say they’re excited about the upcoming Human Rights Watc...
Video as a Subversive Art: The 48th San Francisco International Film Festival Brian Darr July 2005 Festival Reports April 21–May 5, 2005 Film societies must remain at least one step ahead of their audiences and must not permit themselves to be pulled down to ...
Lakes in Lower Manhattan: The 4th Annual Tribeca Film Festival Jared Rapfogel July 2005 Festival Reports April 19–May 1, 2005 It’s hard to describe New York as a film-festival-starved town, with the 41 year-old New York Film Festival towering mos...
