What is the Cinema?: The 2017 Cannes Film Festival Daniel Fairfax June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 Cannes, as we all know, is essentially a scandal-making machine. More than any other film festival, Cannes has had controversy baked into its DNA...
No Service, Keep Moving: The 63rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Tara Judah June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 The programme at the Short Film Festival is difficult, to be sure, but it always has been. Even the Short Film Festival’s first programme in 1954...
Pan African Film Festival 2017 Bérénice Reynaud June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 Pan African Dreams: the Dreams that Dance Attending PAFF is to open oneself to a world of images, colours, sounds – even the suggestion of smells...
Ars Moriendi, or How To Film a Sculpture: The 11th Punto de Vista Festival Jay Kuehner June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 In the tiny village of Alzuza – once Navarran countryside, now a mere suburb of Pamplona – the museum of Basque intellectual and sculptor Jorge...
IndieLisboa: Invisible Cities Carmen Gray June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 Joseph Roth wrote in 1933 that rising nationalism had temporarily defeated Jewish writers in Germany, but not before they’d given its literature...
Notes on DOCUMENTAMADRID, the 14th Madrid International Documentary Film Festival Libertad Gills June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 The 14th Madrid International Documentary Film Festival was held in Matadero, a former slaughterhouse and livestock market built between 1908 and...
Reckoning with the Past: The 18th Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 The year 2016 in Korean cinema was especially strong if turbulent, with many major films by established auteurs, impressive debuts and second...
CPH:DOX 2017 Matt Turner June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 Though only in its 14th year, Danish documentary festival CPH:DOX’s profile has continually grown, so much so that the festival now proudly calls...
High Anxiety: The 41st Hong Kong International Film Festival Nicholas Godfrey June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 The 41st Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) was launched amidst political turmoil and much soul searching about the state of the local...
Clermont-Ferrand 2017 Yaron Dahan June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 Dekalb Elementary (d. Reed Van Dyk), a huis-clos which deftly manoeuvres the politics of race and class in America, was the winner of this year’s...
In Search of an Eastern European Identity – Vilnius Film Festival review Vladas Rozenas June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 My girlfriend and I have this horrible joke that we tell each other after getting depressed by the very limited range of possibilities for cultural...
Full Frame Film Festival Annie Berke June 2017 Festival Reports Issue 83 My first time at Durham, North Carolina’s Full Frame Film Festival, a program dedicated to documentary media, I got lucky. “Ms. Berke, you are a...
