Live Through This: The 2020 Adelaide Film Festival Saige Walton January 2021 Festival Reports In a year marked by apocalyptic imagery and an eerie sense of the science-fictional, the Adelaide Film Festival’s decision to open its socially distan...
“Sense of Place”: The 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival Kohei Usuda January 2021 Festival Reports The Tokyo International Film Festival commenced on October 31 under the most unusual of circumstances, in the backdrop of a deadly pandemic that upend...
The 57th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival: Enclave Amidst the Chaos? Maja Korbecka January 2021 Festival Reports Taiwan is one of the few countries that managed to suppress the spread of COVID-19 very early on, drawing from the traumatic experience of the early 2...
The 34th Cinema Ritrovato Has Full Resuscitation under COVID Roger Macy October 2020 Festival Reports Bologna in 2020 was destined to be different, with COVID-19 still lapping around. Frankly, when I saw the postponement announcement, that was the last...
Women at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival Alexandra Heller-Nicholas October 2020 Festival Reports In 2016, the 5050x2020 campaign was launched by the Swedish Film Institute at the Cannes Film Festival, and big names were there to share in the annou...
Lest We Forget: the 31st FID Marseille Leonardo Goi October 2020 Festival Reports Are you ready to attend the first “real” festival post COVID-19? The invite came in early July, four and a half months since my last memory from the f...
A Vitalising Cinema in an Agitated Age: The 58th New York Film Festival Jake Pitre October 2020 Festival Reports The 58th New York Film Festival, which took place September 17 to October 11, was inevitably unique in a year of disease and unrest. Taking place at d...
Locarno 2020: The Open Doors Experience Maria Giovanna Vagenas October 2020 Festival Reports Because of COVID-19, the structure of the 74th Locarno Film Festival was rethought. Under the motto “For the future of films” and opting for a hybrid ...
Your Daughters Come Back to You: The 28th Pan African Film and Arts Festival Bérénice Reynaud July 2020 Festival Reports The label of “auteur cinema”, whether poetic or political, is often the cloak under which African cinema is “discovered” and appreciated. We know the ...
Reimagining the Film Festival Landscape in the Time of a Global Pandemic: The 27th Sheffield Doc/Fest Sofie Cato Maas July 2020 Festival Reports Cinema is one of those rare forms of art where the relation and tension between aesthetics and ideology, past and present, and formalism and realism, ...
Closer Than Ever? The 1st Long Distance Film Festival Leonardo Goi July 2020 Festival Reports For all the festivals forced to cancel their yearly rendezvous in response to the COVID pandemic, there’s a tiny contingent that have blossomed under ...
More Like Collage Than Contest: The 67th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Online Steffanie Ling July 2020 Festival Reports The 66th Edition of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen went online too, and we all know why. A moment to note and speculate on some persona...
