Day by Day: IFFR 2022 Madeleine Collier May 2022 Festival Reports 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 ...
Stuck in traffic: IFFR 2022 Tara Judah May 2022 Festival Reports 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...
Absence and Presence at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. 68. Tara Judah May 2022 Festival Reports I was searching for a word to describe my specific feelings of loneliness when I came across mauerbauertraurigkeit, which the internet tells me is Ger...
From Within the Umbra of History: A Few Things about the Films of Rainer Komers, Sohrab Hura and Sylvia Schedelbauer Anuj Malhotra May 2022 Festival Reports A study of three profiled filmmakers at the recently concluded, 68th edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and the distinct str...
Film Goes On (?): The 23rd Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond May 2022 Festival Reports This year’s 23rd edition of the Jeonju International Film Festival returned to full capacity for the first time since 2019, following a 2020 cancellat...
Play-Doc 2022: António Campos, a secret filmmaker Ricardo Vieira Lisboa May 2022 Festival Reports 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...
Rings of Saturn, Gardens of Empire: The 2022 Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Jay Kuehner May 2022 Festival Reports 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...
70 Years of Mountain Cinema: The 2022 Trento Film Festival Maria San Filippo May 2022 Festival Reports If unaware, as I was, that there’s a film festival devoted exclusively to mountain cinema, much less that it’s in its venerable 70th year, this and ot...
Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Rewriting the Rules of the Game Maria Giovanna Vagenas February 2022 Festival Reports 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...
The Pivot to Asia: The 34th Tokyo International Film Festival Kohei Usuda February 2022 Festival Reports Preamble Following the previous year’s abbreviated edition – when the global pandemic forced organisers to scale back the event and forgo its main co...
Come Together: The 59th Viennale Leonardo Goi January 2022 Festival Reports Anytime I’ve wondered about the pandemic’s impact on my relationship with cinema – a depressing exercise I’ve indulged in far too often over these god...
From White Clouds, Wild Delights: The 18th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival Carmen Gray January 2022 Festival Reports “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...
