State of the Festival

In a lecture at the University of Auckland Film and Media Studies Department on 17 September 2002, Ngāti Apa filmmaker Barry Barclay proposed Indigenous Fourth Cinema as “a late addition to the First-Second-Thi...

Being at a film festival can be a strange experience. Take Cannes. As an attendee, you have first access to the year’s biggest films and a chance to sip expensive (free) champagne while overlooking the deep blu...

My journey through criticism began at a workshop. In August 2017, I was accepted into the Locarno Critics Academy, an annual initiative held at the Swiss film festival and designed to give ten young writers an ...

A town of around 50,000 sitting somewhere between the Alps and the Adriatic, every October Pordenone becomes a mecca for discerning cinephiles around the globe. Established in 1982, Pordenone’s Silent Film Fest...

The 76th Berlin IFF: Observations from afar I was not at Berlinale this year. Looking at the list of awards and the reports of the award ceremony, however, has been interesting. I also read various – often con...

February 2026 marked the 40th anniversary of the Berlinale’s venerable queer film prize, the Teddy Award. With this milestone in mind, I was invited by the prize’s organisers, the Teddy Foundation, to interview...