Festival Reports

The Transilvania International Film Festival has taken place since the early 2000s in Cluj-Napoca, one of the most significant towns in Romania. Slowl...

For some, their first experience of attending the Cannes film festival is love at first sight: the slow-burning infatuation with the idea of sharing t...

As a director of a women’s film festival here in Melbourne, the opportunity to attend the world’s oldest, still running women’s film festival – the Fe...

Andrii Donchyk’s debut fiction feature Oxygen Starvation (1991), a devastating vision of military service in the Soviet army, was one of the first non...

I approached the 17th edition of Punto de Vista (International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra) with necessary ambivalence, owing on the one hand...

In Inge Coolsaet’s video essay (putting) On Aftersun, she divulges that her brother missed the early scene in the film where the tour guide mentions T...

Reader, sometimes it feels like I have been penning film festival reports for an eternity – and not just because of the distension of durée that we ha...

In early December, I received an unexpected email. After participating virtually in the IFFR Young Critics Program in 2019, I was invited to take part...

Dirk de Bruyn’s extensive body of work is marked by an experimental ethos that consistently challenges formal cinematic conventions. Steven McIntyre h...

If an argument can be made that film festivals reflect some of the unique traits of their host cities, the sprawling format of the Tokyo International...

After two years of hybrid versions, London Film Festival was back in full force. But I still felt uncertain about attending in person; fighting my way...

Only a tiny handful of film festivals have ever made it to their 70th edition, but celebrations when Spain's leading such event — at San Sebastian, th...

Worldwide, film festivals are slowly emerging in their physical avatars after the pandemic-induced break since 2020. Screening of independent document...

Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival survived the pandemic unscathed. None of its editions took an online or hybrid form. However, another issue thorough...

Kutaisi International Short Film Festival (KISFF) is a pure manifestation of how film festivals can enrich and enhance a city’s cultural landscape. Ku...

Something interesting happened in the opening minutes of Jafar Panahi’s No Bears when it was shown at the press preview for the New York Film Festival...

Skimming through my many scribbles in a desired attempt to describe what Curtas Vila do Conde means 30 years into its instalment in Portugal’s now eve...

This year marked the 75th edition of the Locarno (Film) Festival, which started in 1946 and technically before the more famous Cannes festival – Canne...

It was rather poetic that my first IRL interaction with the festival, on the Sunday of the first weekend, was a much-anticipated, rarest-of-rare scree...

French writer Roger Martin du Gard believed that there was more truth to be found in a memory itself than in a written down version in a diary. Despit...

While there was a KVIFF last year (held uncharacteristically in August, from the 20th to the 28th) and a 16-film-strong roaming festival-in-miniature ...

“Back to normal” was undoubtedly the prevailing ethos of this year’s Cannes film festival. This was to be expected after the cancellation of the festi...

Two topics have come up every time I’ve discussed the 2022 San Francisco Silent Film Festival: One: This is the first edition of the festival after...

Almost three years into the pandemic, online festival screenings have become a new norm, and while they meet our needs to catch up with new production...