Author Yaron Dahan

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival has long had a tradition of foregrounding Balkan cinema through its Balkan Survey. In a retrospective of Romanian films, precursors to the Romanian New Wave were sho...

Dekalb Elementary (d. Reed Van Dyk), a huis-clos which deftly manoeuvres the politics of race and class in America, was the winner of this year’s Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Fest...

To bring films together into a cohesive and provocative curation is to open paths of communication between them, to build links where they had never before existed. By sharing a cinematic time/space that is a s...

Vanity is so deeply rooted in man’s heart, that a soldier, a criminal, a cook, or a porter will boast and expect to have admirers, and even philosophers want them, and even those who write against all the above...

Feature image: Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (dir. Johnnie To) “The Berlinale is not the problem, but only a symptom of German film culture,” announced Frédéric Jaeger, director of Berlin’s Critics’ Week (Woche...