Back to Basics: The New Spirit of Cinéma du Réel Maria Giovanna Vagenas July 2019 Festival Reports Issue 91 In Paris, during the grey and wintry month of March, dazzling colours and geometric patterns on the famous glass and steel façade of the Centre...
Looking Forward and Looking Back: The 20th Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond July 2019 Festival Reports Issue 91 2019 marked the 20th anniversary of the Jeonju film festival, which celebrated with its largest program to date, with an emphasis on both the history...
Echoes of Exclamation: The 65th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Steffanie Ling July 2019 Festival Reports Issue 91 The Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen is like a restaurant that everyone keeps going to even though the quality of the food is consistently...
Tricky Women/Tricky Realities and the Body Politic Amanda Barbour July 2019 Festival Reports Issue 91 Vienna is pretty much a combination of The Lord of the Rings and a mental asylum. Tolkienian because of its baroque architecture and contained lunacy...
An Unlikely Oceanic Feeling in Middle America: True/False Film Festival 2019 Jordan M. Smith July 2019 Festival Reports Issue 91 This year was my fifth consecutive visit to the American midwest, lovingly described by the True False Film Festival’s press liaison as “the...
A Vintage Year – the 21st Far East Film Festival Chris Berry July 2019 Festival Reports Issue 91 Udine’s Far East Film Festival celebrated its twenty-first birthday with a vintage selection of excellent films. Despite a public funding cut of...
Islands in the Current: The 16th IndieLisboa Film Festival Leonardo Goi July 2019 Festival Reports Issue 91 I am flicking through the notes of my second year at IndieLisboa, and sensing a pattern. Writing from Portugal a year ago, I remember praising a...
Screening Desire: BFI Flare London LGBTQ+ Film Festival James Lawrence Slattery July 2019 Festival Reports Issue 91 Founded in 1986, BFI Flare is now a well-established festival screening new LGBTQ+ films from around the world. Held at London’s British Film...
Recovering Hidden Histories: The 27th PanAfrican Art and Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud July 2019 Festival Reports Issue 91 The Voice in the Church For the opening night of its 27th edition at the Directors Guild of America, the PanAfrican Art and Film Festival (PAFF),...
Youth in motion: the 18th Transilvania International Film Festival Leonardo Goi July 2019 Festival Reports Issue 91 It took an open-air screening of Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy - held in the courtyard of an abandoned castle in the middle of Transylvania, and with lead...
Children of the Apocalypse: the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Daniel Fairfax July 2019 Festival Reports Issue 91 Picture this, dear reader: from the very beginning of this year’s Cannes film festival, I had been having nightmares about the prospect of getting...
Under the Moon in Sharjah: The 1st Sharjah Film Platform Carmen Gray March 2019 Festival Reports Issue 90 If you were around in the 1980s and even a passing consumer of Hollywood action movies, you’ll probably remember Chuck Norris as an elite troop...
