Textures of Memory, Images in Flux: The 2012 Melbourne International Film...
At first blush, it seems difficult to pin-down what this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) was trying to be: with an international programme borrowing heavily from Cannes and Venice,...
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Contents: Jorge Mourinha on Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival Sally Shafto on Khouribga Bill Mousoulis on Karlovy Vary Alison Frank on New Horizons Paul Macovaz on Sydney Damien Spiccia...
View ArticleA State of Urgency: The 2012 DocLisboa – International Documentary Film Festival
Urgency was the key word for the 10th anniversary of DocLisboa. The urgency of the state of the world around us; the urgency of finding new ways to translate it into moving images; the urgency of...
View ArticleThe Last Time I Saw Lisbon & Estoril: The 6th Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival
Now in its sixth year, Paulo Branco’s Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival (LEFFEST) has carved out a niche on the roster of smaller European fests with classy retrospectives programmes, great guests and a...
View ArticleDiscovering the Hub of Asian Cinema: The 17th Busan International Film Festival
Over the last few years the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has done much to raise its global profile. Last year, under the new direction of Lee Yong-kwan, who took over from festival founder...
View ArticleTales of Entropy: The 31st Vancouver International Film Festival
Monster From the Deep Off the coast of Bangladesh, the tiny island of Banishanta (about 100 by 10 metres) is flat, exposed to the vagaries of the Bay of Bengal, with its treacherous monsoons and...
View ArticleTruth, Myths and Clichés: The 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival
Chinese independent cinema as a film movement has been regenerated at various socio-historical conjunctures throughout the past twenty years. Nowadays, some independent filmmakers take the trouble to...
View ArticleMinding the Gap Between Fiction and Reality: CPH:DOX Celebrates 10 Years
In one of the many engaging panel discussions on the “documentary arts”, as one filmmaker called them, at the 10th edition of Copenhagen’s international documentary festival, lead programmer Mads...
View ArticleA Cinema Storm on the Upper West Side: The 50th New York Film Festival
A dialogue between Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling I. NYFF & Richard Peña JS: A film festival is always more fun with a friend. So for this report of the 50th annual New York Film Festival we...
View ArticleWhere More Meets MORE: The 37th Toronto International Film Festival
“Where OMG Meets WTF”. This was the first tagline I spotted at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Others included “Where Fantasy Meets Reality”, “Where Indie Meets Epic”, “Where Wow Meets...
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Contents Jorge Mourinha DocLisboa Pierce Conran on Busan Michael Laff on Busan Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling on New York Pamela Cohn on CPH:DOX Bérénice Reynaud on Vancouver Ben Cho on Lisbon...
View ArticleA Sense of Space: The 32nd Sundance Film Festival & the 21st PanAfrican Film...
We were lucky. The cold front that had swept through most of the US in January receded on time, so we could enjoy the relatively mild weather, and even sunshine glittering on the snow, while waiting in...
View ArticleThe Youth of Others: The 2012 AFI FEST & American Film Market (AFM)
It is always ‘before the Revolution’ for us, sons of the bourgeoisie. – Bernardo Bertolucci, Prima della rivoluzione (1964) Invited as Guest Artistic Director by the 2012 AFI FEST presented by Audi,...
View Article“There is nothing moving in cinema”: The Experimenta Weekend at the 56th BFI...
The annual Experimenta Weekend, programmed by Mark Webber, takes place at the end of London Film Festival, and informally functions as a self-contained festival in itself. Some of the screenings under...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of Paris: The Second Festival du film fantastique and the...
Despite being the world’s biggest tourist destination, Paris still thrums with its own creative energy. Montmartre may now be the realm of cheesy portrait-painters rather than Impressionists and hordes...
View ArticleBerlin: A Winter’s Tale: The 65th Berlin International Film Festival
It was in the sad month of February, When the days had become dreary, And when the wind whipped at the trees, That I made my way to Germany. And when I to the border came, I felt a mighty hammering In...
View ArticleBrave Art House Exhibitors: The 6th Annual Art House Convergence
The 2013 Art House Convergence celebrated its 6th incarnation with the largest number of attendees ever, along with the theme of The Brave New American Art House. Through the three jam-packed days of...
View ArticleThe More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The 2012 Alternative...
Have no respect, it’s only film. – Vassily Bourakis The Alternative Film/Video Festival in Belgrade has historically been one of a triumvirate of critical festivals, with Pula’s MAFAF (1965-1990) and...
View ArticleAlong the Tiger Path: The 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam
Early on in the 2013 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, at about the third or fourth appearance of its distinctive, looming tiger logo that preceded every screening, I began to feel...
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Contents Matthew Flanagan on BFI London’s Experimenta Weekend Bérénice Reynaud on AFI FEST & American Film Market (AFM) Dirk de Bruyn on the Alternative Film/Video Festival Bérénice Reynaud on...
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