#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...
Towards the De-masculinisation of Korean Cinema: The 23rd Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 The latest edition of the Busan International Film Festival featured the usual lineup: a number of films getting their Asian or Korean premieres...
Between Hollywood and the Socialist/Colonial East: The 5th Hanoi International Film Festival Lucian Tion December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 Already at its fifth edition, the Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF) cannot exactly be said to have made world headlines. However, in a...
Film Culture and Corporate Enterprise at the 62nd BFI London Film Festival Tara Judah December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 The British Film Institute (BFI) is both the physical home and funding body behind the lion’s share of film activity in the UK. It is a beacon for...
American Drama: The 56th New York Film Festival Jackson Arn December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 Film festivals – like film shoots, or warzones – waver between exhilarating and dull. One minute you’re thanking the heavens that something as...
In Stockholm, Bergman is (Literally) on the Money Randy Malamud December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 A movie ticket with popcorn in Stockholm costs about 200 kroner, and if you pay cash you’ll notice that the 200 kroner bill features Ingmar...
Leadership Transitions, Critical Voices and Experimental Cinema at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 In 2018, the Toronto International Film Festival joined Sundance, Berlin, Locarno and Vienna in announcing major changes in leadership. After 36...
Vancouver 2018 – Not-so-strange Bedfellows Bérénice Reynaud December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 Beyond the Great (Digital) Divide Posited at both ends of the aesthetic spectrum (French auteur cinema versus Sundance alum), Doubles Vies...
New Stars, Old Dreams: The 75th Venice Film Festival Leonardo Goi December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 In the weeks leading up to the 75th Venice film festival, buzz around the festival had less to do with its stellar lineup (arguably the most...
The Frame as a Border: Defining Cinema’s Political Territories at the 56th Viennale Maria Giovanna Vagenas December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 In mid-October, slender, elegant pink flamingos appeared on the walls of buildings in the monumental and austere centre of the Austrian capital,...
“Reality” as Embattled Story: Donbass in Odesa and Their Own Republic at Doclisboa Carmen Gray December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 The notion all reality is just an opinion is something you hear a lot these days in documentary circles. That cinema is always an edit, and an act...
Thin Air, Long Lines: 45th Telluride Film Festival Maria San Filippo December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 This will not be a typical festival review, in that it will not offer in-depth commentary – or even a “best of” roundup – on a sizable...
