The Last Film Festival: the 2020 Berlinale Daniel Fairfax April 2020 Festival Reports Issue 94 I must confess, loyal reader, that there can occasionally be something of a lag between the end of a film festival that I am covering and the moment...
AFI/AFM 2010 – Places to Fly Away From Bérénice Reynaud April 2020 Festival Reports Issue 94 I believe in ghosts, vampires and public employees That a certain morning fly away from their houses. Because I am a man in love. — Luis...
Pandemic Diary of a Lonely Cinephile: CPH:DOX 2020 Pernille Lystlund Matzen April 2020 Festival Reports Issue 94 When reality starts to look increasingly like a dystopian sci-fi film, how does a film festival concerned with the documentary genre respond? For...
Collective Heroes: Activism and Activation at the International Film Festival Rotterdam Tara Judah April 2020 Festival Reports Issue 94 As I write, supermarket shelves sit empty. People are stockpiling toilet paper, hand sanitiser and other household goods in preparation for a...
SXSW Lite: Mutating Social Hustle Into Couch Potato Charm Dirk de Bruyn April 2020 Festival Reports Issue 94 Five days before I got on a plane to SXSW, the world turned. All international travel was cancelled by my institution. A hammer blow. It took time to...
A Festival is a Space in Time: the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Leonardo Goi April 2020 Festival Reports Issue 94 As I type these words, a few months after leaving the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF), I don’t exactly know when the next fest...
Digging for Gold: To Save and Project: The 17th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation Tanner Tafelski April 2020 Festival Reports Issue 94 In a city bursting with monthly repertory programming, the Museum of Modern Art’s To Save and Project series stands out as an annual must-attend...
In Praise of Collective Viewing: True/False 2020 Jordan M. Smith April 2020 Festival Reports Issue 94 It’s impossible to think about the 2020 True/False Film Festival outside of the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which really only began to reveal...
A Resilient Ann Arbor Digs Deep Dirk de Bruyn April 2020 Festival Reports Issue 94 Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest running avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America. 1963 was its foundation year. This year...
Sundance 2020 Bérénice Reynaud April 2020 Festival Reports Issue 94 What are you looking at when you’re looking at me? As Sundance may be one of the last film festivals I will cover for a while, maybe it is a good...
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...
