Rotterdam – Delete/Ignore: locating gremlins and glitches in the machine. Or, how I met the humans and parasites of Planet IFFR Tara Judah March 2018 Festival Reports Issue 86 When I scroll through Instagram, I am fascinated by the ability of the interface. I am at a film festival, having what I presume to be a good time,...
AFM/AFI FEST 2017: Magic Women, Haptic Men Bérénice Reynaud March 2018 Festival Reports Issue 86 – Are you going to sleep with the Chinese? – Yes, I think so. – When? – Maybe later on today. Barbara Two events made the trip worthy to...
Ânûû-rû Âboro: The Festival of Peoples’ Cinema Charles Fairbanks March 2018 Festival Reports Issue 86 New Caledonia may be far from the glitz and glamour of Cannes, Sundance, Venice and the rest, but that is exactly what makes the festival Ânûû-rû...
A Tale of Two Festivals: International Film Festival of India and Experimenta Parichay Patra March 2018 Festival Reports Issue 86 International Film Festival of India, popularly known by its acronym IFFI, rests, like many other events in South Asia, on its past glory and...
Clouds over Berlin: A Few Remarks about German Cinema at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival Marco Abel March 2018 Festival Reports Issue 86 The 68th Berlin International Film Festival took place underneath two significant clouds that did not have anything to do with the films as such....
New Eastern Promises: The 21st Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Leonardo Goi February 2018 Festival Reports Issue 86 “It’s called Black Nights for a reason,” previous attendees of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival had warned me on my way to Estonia. Named...
Korean Cinema in Winter: The 22nd Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond December 2017 Festival Reports Issue 85 Because of an extended national vacation of ten days in early October due to the unusual convergence of various holidays (most notably Chuseok, the...
In a Year of European Documentary Film Festivals Carmen Gray December 2017 Festival Reports Issue 85 Hearing critics talk about European documentary festivals you could often be fooled for thinking they start and end with Amsterdam’s IDFA and its...
New York Film Festival 2017: Robert Mitchum Retrospective + Main Slate Jackson Arn December 2017 Festival Reports Issue 85 To watch the films of Robert Mitchum – the Golden Age Hollywood star whose 54-year career was the subject of a major retrospective at the New York...
A City of Cinema Perseveres: The 15th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Joel Neville Anderson December 2017 Festival Reports Issue 85 Shortly after the conclusion of the 15th edition of the biennial Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, the UNESCO Creative Cities Network...
Wavelengths at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes December 2017 Festival Reports Issue 85 My conversations during the first two days of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival were dominated by two subjects: Twin Peaks: The Return,...
Reimagining Reality: 61st BFI London Film Festival Tara Judah December 2017 Festival Reports Issue 85 I was born in London, but I grew up in Australia. To my eyes, the people of London move with direction and urgency, as if the city somehow has the...
