NYFF Festival Report: Changing of the Guard Nolan Kelly January 2025 Festival Reports Taking place one year after 7 October 2023 and one month before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, the 62nd New York Film Festival was received thro...
Looking for liberation: 68th London Film Festival Nasheed Qamar Faruqi January 2025 Festival Reports To attend the London Film Festival (LFF) in October 2024 is to witness the expression of a world out of joint and to be urgently in search of new and ...
We are all to blame for everything: 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Joshua Bogatin January 2025 Festival Reports “We are all to blame for everything, but if everyone knew it, we'd have paradise on earth.” – Alexander Kluge, Yesterday Girl Flying from my native ...
57th Sitges Film Festival: Audience First Olivia Popp January 2025 Festival Reports As a self-proclaimed “longtime genre film fan”, it felt fortuitous to end up at Spain’s 57th Sitges Film Festival (or in its extended form, the Sitges...
In Search of Audiences: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Petro Alexiou January 2025 Festival Reports The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival began in unusually dry, warm autumn weather. The festival is a big event in the city’s cultural cale...
“Art is Alive, Independent and Political”: Georgian cinema in Kutaisi and Tallinn Carmen Gray January 2025 Festival Reports In Georgian filmmaker Nutsa Tsikaridze’s Mtskhunvare Mze (Burning Sun), some kids stumble across a dead body beside a river on a hot summer’s day. At ...
Portions of an Immense Lava: Notes on a Film Seminar Designed as an Open Map Anuj Malhotra November 2024 Festival Reports In attempting to encircle the potential thesis that inhabits the very nucleus of the curatorial composition for this year’s edition of the Flaherty Se...
Venezia 81 Patricia Di Risio November 2024 Festival Reports Lido, Venice. The Venice Film Festival is always a sizzling event, with the glitz and glamour of numerous major stars (e.g. Antonio Banderas, George ...
Immersion: Diving full-bodied into the 72nd Melbourne International Film Festival Paul Jeffery November 2024 Festival Reports The 2024 edition of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) took steps to emerge from Covid-era regression, offering 210 features and 66 shor...
Untold Stories: The 49th Toronto International Film Festival Kohei Usuda November 2024 Festival Reports The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival was not without its controversies. By far the biggest story to come out of TIFF 2024 w...
Locarno in a Holding Pattern While Redressing the Riven Social Fabric Jaimey Fisher November 2024 Festival Reports Much of the news before and after the Locarno Film Festival this year concerned the appointment of a new president of the festival, Maja Hoffmann, aft...
29th Busan International Film Festival: Ocean of Cinema Maja Korbecka November 2024 Festival Reports For several years now the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has been on the top of my list of film festivals to go to. Over the last 29 edition...
Strategies of Tension, or, Il Brivido Del Proibito the ‘Violent Italy: Italian Crime Films’ retrospective at the 72nd San Sebastián International Film Festival Neil Young November 2024 Festival Reports With an acknowledgement of thanks to Fabrizio Fogliato On 25 September 1967, a Milan bank-heist went violently, tragically awry: as the escaping ro...
On New Shores: The 27th San Francisco Silent Film Festival Jonathan Mackris August 2024 Festival Reports First, a bit of news from the front. Those who have been following some of the local drama outlined in my last dispatch from the San Francisco Silent ...
Nurturing Open Memories: Film for Mother 2024 Zifei Wang August 2024 Festival Reports On Sunday, 12 May 2024, an online crowd of over 100 participants gathered to bid farewell to the two-month-long Film for Mother Festival (hereinafter ...
Film’s Struggle Through the Ages: The 8th Annual Nitrate Picture Show Joshua Bogatin August 2024 Festival Reports The only thing to discover at The Nitrate Picture Show is the past. With an entire slate of programming consisting of nothing besides rare nitrate pri...
14th Taiwan International Documentary Festival: Archival Experiences Maja Korbecka August 2024 Festival Reports Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) is one of the few remaining international film festivals in the Chinese-speaking world that celebrate...
An Archival Bug: The 38th Il Cinema Ritrovato Nace Zavrl August 2024 Festival Reports Film history is back in vogue, or perhaps it never went away. When Il Cinema Ritrovato – likely the world’s largest and most popular event dedicated t...
Mass appeal: Report from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival Elena Lazic August 2024 Festival Reports Most of the years I have attended the Cannes Film Festival, it has felt futile to try to explain in just a few words – besides “great” or “amazing” – ...
Looking Back to the Future: the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Cerise Howard August 2024 Festival Reports Whether local or visiting festival-goers, distinguished or emerging filmmakers, industry professionals or members of the press, few attendees would ha...
Images in Motion: The Currents Program at the 61st New York Film Festival Will DiGravio May 2024 Festival Reports There are two main sites of the New York Film Festival. On the northside of West 65th Street, in the Lincoln Square neighbourhood of Manhattan, is the...
The 5th Hainan Island International Film Festival: At the construction site Maja Korbecka May 2024 Festival Reports It is customary in China’s film festival environment for there to be is almost no information on the upcoming edition of a festival until the last two...
Bound together by stories: Māoriland Film Festival 2024 Duncan Caillard, with Scott W. Kekama Amona May 2024 Festival Reports Ōtaki is a small town on the southern side of Te Ika-a-Māui, the North Island of Aotearoa. Like many small towns in New Zealand, Ōtaki centres on a qu...
Behind Saudi Arabia’s Emerging Film Scene at the Third Red Sea International Film Festival Miriam Aitken May 2024 Festival Reports Nader steps into the light of the crackling fire. Sitting around it, sporting the traditional red and white ghutra, the elders of an unnamed village i...
CPH:DOX 2024: Breaking Out! The Liberating Force Of Documentary Maria Giovanna Vagenas May 2024 Festival Reports Those visiting Copenhagen for the first time to attend CPH:DOX, the country’s leading international documentary film festival, which ran from the 13th...
Declaration of War: the 2024 Berlinale Daniel Fairfax May 2024 Festival Reports In the years – decades even, or so it sometimes feels – that I have been dashing off these festival reports, I have never put pen to paper in a state ...
Mind the Gap: New German Films at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival Marco Abel May 2024 Festival Reports To begin, then, with Hamlet: to be or not to be, this seems to be the question these days for the city of Berlin when it comes to its longstanding sta...
The 38th Teddy Award at the 74th Berlinale: A Dutiful Juror’s Report Cerise Howard May 2024 Festival Reports Launched in 1987, the queer film-celebrating, multiple-category Teddy Award has existed for more than half the nigh-on three-quarters of a century lif...
There is a place called Palestine. thoughts and feelings; a film festival in Rotterdam. Tara Judah May 2024 Festival Reports The day I arrived in the Netherlands was the same day that the provisional measures request from South Africa in their genocide case against Israel wa...
Was I thinking of death?: The 61st New York Film Festival James Vaughan January 2024 Festival Reports “I know that Creation is a Great Wheel that cannot move without crushing someone!” La Roue (1923) “If cinephilia is dead, then movies are dead too...
The 7th Pingyao International Film Festival: In the heat of the sun Maja Korbecka January 2024 Festival Reports After the zero-Covid policy lockdown pushed the previous edition of Pingyao International Film Festival to January 2023, Jia Zhangke and the festival ...
DON’T FORGET THE STRUGGLE, DON’T FORGET THE STREETS: DOK Leipzig 2023 Neil Young January 2024 Festival Reports Does protest work? Can cinema make a difference? These were the two questions implicitly posed by "Film and Protest: Popular Uprisings in the Co...
4th Indian Documentary Film Festival, Bhubaneshwar (IDFFB) 2023 continues to attract film-lovers in a quaint Indian city Dr. Sneha Krishnan January 2024 Festival Reports With input from Subrat Beura Several film enthusiasts in the city of Bhubaneshwar, Odisha warmly embraced several independent films screened between ...
DocLisboa 2023: The Slow Change Daniel Ribas January 2024 Festival Reports In the middle of last October, DocLisboa presented again, as a window on the present – its tagline: “In October, the whole world fits in Lisbon”. Impo...
Seeing in the Dark at the Adelaide Film Festival Sid Christie, Daniel Kopeikin, Adela Teubner, Will Singleton, Daniel Tune & Travis Jenner January 2024 Festival Reports For its first iteration as an annual event, the Adelaide Film Festival invited audiences to “see in the dark”. Enticing hot-pink branding accompanied ...
The Great Presence. Asian Representation at the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival Łukasz Mańkowski January 2024 Festival Reports Over the past several years, San Sebastian IFF has slowly become one of the major European platforms for showcasing Asian Cinema. Priority might be gi...