Korean Cinema in the Shadow of Parasite: The 24th Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 Busan 2019 marked a year of celebration, with multiple retrospective screenings in honour of the 100th anniversary of Korean cinema coinciding with...
Dispatch from Reykjavík: Hot Films at a Cool Festival Randy Malamud January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 At Reykjavík International Film Festival’s 16th edition, strong opening and closing feature films – End of Sentence and Parasite – bookended a...
StopTrik from Head to Toe and the Eisenstein International Network Amanda Barbour January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 The 9th edition of StopTrik and the inaugural conference of the Eisenstein International Network (EIN) took place, borderline consecutively, in...
About the Cliché in Films, or the Opportunity for a New Consciousness at a German Film Festival: A Report on the FilmFest Hamburg Vivien Buchhorn January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 Two women by the sea, their faces framed by cloth that give protection from the wind. They look at each other, the sea is foaming, the beach studded...
Right-wing Conservatives Against Film Lovers: The 20th Tbilisi International Film Festival Levan Tskhovrebadze January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 In Georgia, a country empty of non-commercial movie theatres, the local cinephiles’ only destination for art-house cinema is the Tbilisi...
The Grain of the Real, The Grain of the Surreal, and the Grain of Light: Vancouver International Film Festival 2019 Bérénice Reynaud January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 The Grain of the Real Always the champion of the most cutting-edge documentaries from Asia, the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF)...
Forests of Life and Death: 2019 in Documentary Festivals Carmen Gray January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 Forests in flames dominated some of most searing media images to round out the decade, as their link to human failing, greed and potential extinction...
A Report from the Cottbus Festival of Eastern European Cinema Jendrik Walendy January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 From the wide avenues around the train station, the bus lines meander through narrow streets with renovated historic buildings. The streets open up...
Experimental Cinema in Times of Protest: IV Cámara Lúcida Libertad Gills January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 Cámara Lúcida began in 2016 as a small gathering of friends in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador’s third most important city after Quito and Guayaquil....
“A Hundred Years Ago”: 1919 in Cinema, at Il Cinema Ritrovato, 32nd edition, Bologna, Italy, June 22-30, 2019 Peter Rist January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 It has become a tradition for the annual festival of rediscovered and restored films, Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Italy to focus one of its...
Autumn in a Small Town: The 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival Daniel Fairfax January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 It has become a truism, now, to speak of the global proliferation of film festivals in the last few decades. Worldwide, they presently number in the...
Of liberation, and of states of undress and redress both: The 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Cerise Howard October 2019 Festival Reports Issue 92 Oftentimes reports of mine on the venerable Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) have looked a mite askance at its gender politics. But...
