Film Goes On (?): The 23rd Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond May 2022 Festival Reports This year’s 23rd edition of the Jeonju International Film Festival returned to full capacity for the first time since 2019, following a 2020 cancellat...
Play-Doc 2022: António Campos, a secret filmmaker Ricardo Vieira Lisboa May 2022 Festival Reports Translated by Cristina Río López Between 4 and 8 May, in Tui (a Galician town near the Portuguese border) the most recent edition of the documentar...
70 Years of Mountain Cinema: The 2022 Trento Film Festival Maria San Filippo May 2022 Festival Reports If unaware, as I was, that there’s a film festival devoted exclusively to mountain cinema, much less that it’s in its venerable 70th year, this and ot...
Rings of Saturn, Gardens of Empire: The 2022 Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Jay Kuehner May 2022 Festival Reports At Punto de Vista (The International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra) it seems there are no margins, no outliers; that the notion of the marginal...
Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Rewriting the Rules of the Game Maria Giovanna Vagenas February 2022 Festival Reports Inventive and sassy – one of the best in a long time – 2021's TIFF poster featuring Mrs. Tependris in her pink overall, kicking off the event with a c...
The Pivot to Asia: The 34th Tokyo International Film Festival Kohei Usuda February 2022 Festival Reports Preamble Following the previous year’s abbreviated edition – when the global pandemic forced organisers to scale back the event and forgo its main co...
Come Together: The 59th Viennale Leonardo Goi January 2022 Festival Reports Anytime I’ve wondered about the pandemic’s impact on my relationship with cinema – a depressing exercise I’ve indulged in far too often over these god...
From White Clouds, Wild Delights: The 18th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival Carmen Gray January 2022 Festival Reports “I see Mount Ararat — it stands high in the blue sky. With its gentle, tender contours, it seems to grow not out of the earth but out of the sky, as i...
AFI FEST-AFM: The Perils of Online Bérénice Reynaud January 2022 Festival Reports The Perils November 2021: as I prepare, confident in my virtual screening accreditation, to make my film selection for the AFI Fest, a bad surprise i...
Looking for Love at HitchCon 2021 Amelia Leonard and Jacob Agius January 2022 Festival Reports Hitchcon 2021 brought together twenty professors, scholars, authors and filmmakers from the United States, Canada and Britain for a celebratory weeken...
Sharing Sensations with a Community of Strangers: The 68th Sydney Film Festival Joshua J. Taylor January 2022 Festival Reports Mask wearing, social distancing and QR code check-ins may have become normalised practices in our everyday lives, but in the context of an internation...
Expanding on the Familiar: The 26th Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond January 2022 Festival Reports 2021 marked a return of the Busan film festival to close to normality following a 2020 which had very limited theatrical presence, consisting mostly o...
