Cold Wars: The 2018 Cannes Film Festival Daniel Fairfax June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 “Think with your hands.” Godard’s pronouncement – which the attentive viewer may have heard spring from his mouth two or three times before...
Breaking Down Borders in the Midwest: True/False 2018 Jordan M. Smith June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 When looking at a map it’s hard to fathom the success of the True/False Film Festival, a four day celebration – in every sense of the word, with...
Finding the Forest Through the Trees: The 64th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Tara Judah June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 Few films captured my imagination this year in Oberhausen. Fewer still rocked my world. There were four new strands added to the program and finding...
New Achievements, New Challenges: The 20th Far East Film Festival Chris Berry June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 Chalking up 20 editions is a big achievement for any film festival. After surviving the 2008 financial crisis and growing to include a significant...
The Case for Documentary: Full Frame 2018 Annie Berke June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 At the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival this year, the thematic program was “Crime + Punishment.” Curated by guest programmer and...
Reflections Upon Transitions: The 18th Las Palmas International Film Festival Andreea Patru June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 The Canary Islander has the mind in Europe, the feet on Africa and the heart in America. – anonymous popular saying Spread upon five centuries of...
Inside the Outsides: The Half-Year in Documentary Festivals Carmen Gray June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 “Is Finland a fucking awful place?” Jörn Donner asks his fellow citizens for answers in Fuck Off! – Images from Finland. He travels around his...
Dismantling Divisions: NEW:VISION(s) at CPH:DOX 2018 Matt Turner June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 Having peppered their program with fiction films since their first edition in 2003 – a time when doing such a thing was far less commonplace than...
Conjuring Ghosts: The 15th IndieLisboa Leonardo Goi June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 I am interviewing Donal Foreman at the headquarters of IndieLisboa about his entry in the Portuguese extravaganza’s international competition, The...
South Korea’s Shadow Land: The 19th Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 Over the course of five days at this year’s Jeonju film festival, I watched 21 films, the vast majority of which were Korean, with 15 of these...
Confronting Austrian history at the Diagonale: Making Up for Lost Time Randy Malamud June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 If Austrian film is less renowned than some other European cinema, still, it is a valuable and eclectic duchy of its own, and the Diagonale Festival...
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,...
