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...
The Unspeakable finds Voice: The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam Dirk de Bruyn March 2019 Festival Reports Issue 90 The 48th edition of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam was IFFR director Bero Beyer’s fourth iteration. The four program groupings that...
The 2018 Mezipatra Queer Film Festival: An Adventure Beyond Reality into a Queer Liminal Space Stuart Richards March 2019 Festival Reports Issue 90 Themes of liminality run through the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival in Prague. The event is held in November each year, as Europe slowly turns to the...
Questions of Agency: Sundance 2019 Bérénice Reynaud March 2019 Festival Reports Issue 90 The Warden and the Young Man In 2012, Ava DuVernay made history by becoming the first black woman filmmaker to get a major award at Sundance. Since...
Back to the Wolf Pack: the 22nd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Leonardo Goi March 2019 Festival Reports Issue 90 “You’ve come prepared,” a member of the guest management team from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF, in its Estonian acronym)...
All the Feels: The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam Leonardo Goi March 2019 Festival Reports Issue 90 The tote bag I picked up at the headquarters of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) had four fluorescent words printed on it, one for...
Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Reflexivity and Realism in the Romanian Retrospective Yaron Dahan March 2019 Festival Reports Issue 90 The Thessaloniki International Film Festival has long had a tradition of foregrounding Balkan cinema through its Balkan Survey. In a retrospective of...
The Marginal and the Misplaced: To Save and Project: The 16th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation Tanner Tafelski March 2019 Festival Reports Issue 90 In this day and age, to watch an older movie, or really any movie, is to watch a digital copy – a file code made up of ones and zeros. That is to...
Rendez-vous in Autumn: China-US Summit/American Film Market/AFI FEST Bérénice Reynaud March 2019 Festival Reports Issue 90 On Oct 30, the day before the American Film Market opened in Santa Monica, the Asian Society of Southern California had organised the US-China...
“Il faut souffrir”; or, Why the personal was (mostly) not the political at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival Marco Abel March 2019 Festival Reports Issue 90 “Il faut souffrir,” Fritz Lang, playing himself in Jean-Luc Godard’s masterful Le mépris (Contempt, 1963), laconically declares to...
The Centre Cannot Hold: the 2019 Berlinale Daniel Fairfax March 2019 Festival Reports Issue 90 In the wake of recent political events that have shaken the four-decade-long neoliberal consensus, sundering the political terrain of the major...
#Youmustsee: The 2018 Adelaide International Film Festival Saige Walton December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 The last Adelaide Film Festival under the stewardship of Artistic Director Amanda Duthie proved to be a decidedly populist affair— a programming...
