Brave New World: the 2021 Cannes Film Festival Daniel Fairfax August 2021 Festival Reports How does it feel to return to the cinema? I asked myself this question as my plane taxied on the runway at Nice airport one fine July morning, the shi...
The Realm of the Sensible and the Short Film: The 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Shekhar Deshpande July 2021 Festival Reports The 67th edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen went online for the second successive year, this time with wider ambitions. It ex...
To Be Crossed and Shattered: Solidarity as Disruption at the 67th International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Steffanie Ling July 2021 Festival Reports In last year’s festival report of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen I lamented a number of programs that were postponed, including the theme prog...
Familiar and Not-Familiar: An Uncanny Journey Through the 22nd Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond July 2021 Festival Reports Last year, for the first time since 2007, I was unable to attend the Jeonju film festival, as it was in effect canceled, although there was still a pr...
Disenchantment of the World: IFFR 2021 Madeleine Collier May 2021 Festival Reports It feels like every week since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic has contained more than a year’s worth of news events, and the week of the Internati...
IFFR 2021: High art, casual conversation Tara Judah May 2021 Festival Reports There is no festival in my home, only lockdown. But, there is a familiar and comforting Tiger that graces my television screen. It reminds me that the...
Rediscovering the Forgotten Gems of a Decade: Austrian Auteurs of the 1970s at the Viennale Maria Giovanna Vagenas May 2021 Festival Reports The 2020 Viennale was an extraordinary and memorable event. Carried by the courage, conviction and tenacity of its director Eva Sangiorgi and her team...
Pandemic Dreams: The 71st Berlinale Carmen Gray May 2021 Festival Reports Shuffling from bed to couch, stove-brewed coffee in hand, and firing up the laptop may make for an unusually leisurely way to start a festival day, bu...
Some Winners and Then Some: Sundance 2021 Bérénice Reynaud May 2021 Festival Reports I From the comfort of my home, and the peace of my computer, I didn’t miss the long lines in the cold, or my shoes soaked in dirty snow, nor did I mi...
Forgotten Wars: The AFI FEST/AFM 2020 (Virtual Events) Bérénice Reynaud May 2021 Festival Reports AFI FEST Presented by Audi Two Invisible Wars Ensconced in the mountains of the Southern Caucasus, a disputed breakaway enclave within Azerbaijan, ...
Making Visible: The 2021 Cinéma du Réel Andrew Northrop May 2021 Festival Reports An immediate glance at the International Selection of 2021’s Cinéma du Réel identifies familiar films from IDFA, International Film Festival Rotterdam...
Only the World and Everything In It: The 2021 Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Jay Kuehner April 2021 Festival Reports In its young history Punto de Vista (International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra) has staked out a distinguished identity, owing foremost to a ...
