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...
This Is the Way the World Ends: The 10th Odesa Film Festival Leonardo Goi October 2019 Festival Reports Issue 92 Midway through my second year at the Odesa International Film Festival (OIFF), a curious feeling began to emerge from my screenings. To the extent...
22nd Revelation Perth Film Festival David Morgan-Brown October 2019 Festival Reports Issue 92 The unpredictable notion of control is beneficial for conflict in storytelling, particularly in the features and documentaries of the 22nd Revelation...
Sharing My Journey: Women and the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival Alexandra Heller-Nicholas October 2019 Festival Reports Issue 92 To say that in recent years that broader amorphous beast loosely called “the film industry” has been the centre of often high-profile discourse...
The Rhizomatic Underground of Contemporary Animation Curatorship: The 9th Under the Radar Festival Dirk de Bruyn October 2019 Festival Reports Issue 92 The 9th Under the Radar animation film festival took place in the MuseumsQuartier, the Blickle Kino and the Filmhaus Kino in Vienna from 1-5 July....
The Old Hands Have It: The Batumi International Art-House Film Festival Carmen Gray October 2019 Festival Reports Issue 92 Batumi, Georgia’s third-largest city, has become known as the ”Las Vegas of the Black Sea”, due to the reliance of its economy on gambling....
Of Art Cinema, its Discontents and its Triumphs: The 72nd Locarno Film Festival Jaimey Fisher October 2019 Festival Reports Issue 92 This year’s edition of the Locarno Film Festival, the 72nd, welcomed a new artistic director, Lili Hinstin, after the departure last year of Carlo...
A Decade+ in Review: The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes October 2019 Festival Reports Issue 92 On 31 December 2018, the fundraising arm of the Toronto International Film Festival sent a year-end email solicitation, urging recipients to support...
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2019 Peter Hourigan October 2019 Festival Reports Issue 92 Ritrovati e Restaurati – Recovered and Restored – is one the programming strands for Bologna’s Cinema Ritrovato. These terms, along with...
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...
