AFI FEST-AFM: The Perils of Online Bérénice Reynaud January 2022 Festival Reports The Perils November 2021: as I prepare, confident in my virtual screening accreditation, to make my film selection for the AFI Fest, a bad surprise i...
Looking for Love at HitchCon 2021 Amelia Leonard and Jacob Agius January 2022 Festival Reports Hitchcon 2021 brought together twenty professors, scholars, authors and filmmakers from the United States, Canada and Britain for a celebratory weeken...
Sharing Sensations with a Community of Strangers: The 68th Sydney Film Festival Joshua J. Taylor January 2022 Festival Reports Mask wearing, social distancing and QR code check-ins may have become normalised practices in our everyday lives, but in the context of an internation...
Expanding on the Familiar: The 26th Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond January 2022 Festival Reports 2021 marked a return of the Busan film festival to close to normality following a 2020 which had very limited theatrical presence, consisting mostly o...
Towards New Horizons: The 74th Locarno Film Festival Maria Giovanna Vagenas October 2021 Festival Reports 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...
“I Wish I Were Here”: Women at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival Alexandra Heller-Nicholas October 2021 Festival Reports 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, ...
Time Capsules: Manfred Kirchheimer at Play-Doc 2021 Iván Villarmea Álvarez October 2021 Festival Reports 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 ...
35th Cinema Ritrovato Inhabits Bologna with Joy and Pride Roger Macy October 2021 Festival Reports 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...
An Enclave for Chinese Art Cinema: The 13th Xining First International Film Festival Zhaoyu Zhu and Jiakai Nie October 2021 Festival Reports 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...
Alberto Lattuada at the 74th Locarno Film Festival Sofie Cato Maas October 2021 Festival Reports “The cinema is unequaled for revealing all the basic truths about a nation.” Alberto Lattuada Two years since the last physical edition of Locarno, ...
Embarrassment Of Riches: The 59th New York Film Festival Nolan Kelly October 2021 Festival Reports 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...
A Fortnight Alone with the 69th Melbourne International Film Festival Jacob Agius October 2021 Festival Reports When the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) rolls around in early August, that final month of winter always feels a little warmer in Melbour...
