The label of “auteur cinema”, whether poetic or political, is often the cloak under which African cinema is “discovered” and appreciated. We know the ...
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, ...
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 ...
I must confess, loyal reader, that there can occasionally be something of a lag between the end of a film festival that I am covering and the moment w...
When reality starts to look increasingly like a dystopian sci-fi film, how does a film festival concerned with the documentary genre respond? For CPH:...
As I write, supermarket shelves sit empty. People are stockpiling toilet paper, hand sanitiser and other household goods in preparation for a lockdown...
Five days before I got on a plane to SXSW, the world turned. All international travel was cancelled by my institution. A hammer blow. It took time to ...
As I type these words, a few months after leaving the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF), I don’t exactly know when the next fest wi...
In a city bursting with monthly repertory programming, the Museum of Modern Art’s To Save and Project series stands out as an annual must-attend event...
It’s impossible to think about the 2020 True/False Film Festival outside of the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which really only began to reveal its...
