This summer the Locarno Film Festival and its Piazza Grande finally got their colours back. The giant screen in the piazza lit up again and the public...
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 ...
When I wrote last year on Cinema Ritrovato that “it is by no means certain that we will have reached ‘post-COVID’ any time soon”, did I really have an...
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, ...
About three-quarters of the way through the New York Film Festival’s press screenings, which unfolded in an orderly pace at Lincoln Center’s Walter Re...
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...
The 67th edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen went online for the second successive year, this time with wider ambitions. It ex...
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...
