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 ...
Dreaming of the Mountains: The 9th Dharamshala International Film Festival Sucheta Chakraborty January 2021 Festival Reports In March of 2020, around the time India went into a nationwide lockdown in response to the rise in COVID-19 cases, the Dharamshala International Film ...
Ghost Cities: The 58th Viennale Leonardo Goi January 2021 Festival Reports Legally speaking, I wasn’t sure if the trip would amount to trouble. I’d read the news, and made a few calls, and checked online. The website of the I...
Queer and Australian Features at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival Stuart Richards January 2021 Festival Reports Held primarily at Palace Nova in the CBD’s Eastend, the Adelaide Film Festival was one of only a few festivals in Australia that were able to hold in-...
Korean Cinema’s Self-Portrait: The 25th Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond January 2021 Festival Reports The 25th Busan International Film Festival was originally scheduled to take place in early October, as usual, with a full lineup and screenings, albei...
