Festival Reports

And there he is: perhaps not entirely unlike those famous bespectacled eyes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz-age novel The Great Gatsby (1925) that stare...

The 51st edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam was among the first of many this year to be pushed online by the materialisation of the ...

On his early evening drive home from work (he leaves just after 5pm every day), Andrew Rakowski, the Melbourne lawyer who serves as protagonist in Dav...

A study of three profiled filmmakers at the recently concluded, 68th edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and the distinct str...

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...

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...

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...

Preamble Following the previous year’s abbreviated edition – when the global pandemic forced organisers to scale back the event and forgo its main co...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

Locked down as I have been in Melbourne, Australia, and unable to attend the Toronto International Film Festival in person for a second year running, ...

How many times can we return to a place, to a time, to a mood? Each time is different, since we ourselves are different, although we usually look for ...

Xining is located in a river valley on the eastern side of the Tibetan Plateau. Due to its proximity to Tibet and Xinjiang, the city has a strong mult...

“The cinema is unequaled for revealing all the basic truths about a nation.” Alberto Lattuada Two years since the last physical edition of Locarno, ...

When the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) rolls around in early August, that final month of winter always feels a little warmer in Melbour...

How does it feel to return to the cinema? I asked myself this question as my plane taxied on the runway at Nice airport one fine July morning, the shi...

In last year’s festival report of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen I lamented a number of programs that were postponed, including the theme prog...

Last year, for the first time since 2007, I was unable to attend the Jeonju film festival, as it was in effect canceled, although there was still a pr...

There is no festival in my home, only lockdown. But, there is a familiar and comforting Tiger that graces my television screen. It reminds me that the...

The 2020 Viennale was an extraordinary and memorable event. Carried by the courage, conviction and tenacity of its director Eva Sangiorgi and her team...

I From the comfort of my home, and the peace of my computer, I didn’t miss the long lines in the cold, or my shoes soaked in dirty snow, nor did I mi...

AFI FEST Presented by Audi Two Invisible Wars Ensconced in the mountains of the Southern Caucasus, a disputed breakaway enclave within Azerbaijan, ...