Issue 53
Corporal Punishment is Better than Nothing: The 3rd Sydney Underground Film Festival
On the edges of Sydney’s inner city, as the terrace housing thins, depots and warehouses begin to mingle with a vast suburban prairie. Here, in
Selections from an Already Select Few: A Report from the 47th New York Film Festival
As always, but this year perhaps more than usual, the unveiling of a new New York Film Festival slate was greeted with accusations that the
When is a film festival not a festival?: The 6th China Independent Film Festival
When is a film festival not a film festival? In China the answer is, when it’s an exhibition. The Chinese title of the China Independent
Circles of Confusion: The 53rd London Film Festival
More so than any other year that I can attest to, the 53rd London Film Festival was characterised by a series of conflicts, contrasts, frustrations
Open Your Ears: The Sound of Music, Talking, and Foley at the 3rd Annual Jornada Brasileira de Cinema Silencioso
Before American and European motion pictures took over Brazilian movie screens in 1911, domestic cinema was enjoying a bela época. Dominated by actualités and newsreels
Look Out: The 13th Canberra International Film Festival
In the vast world of international film festivals, the Canberra International Film Festival is still in its infancy. It began in 1996, running for three
Now and Then, Now and Again: The 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the 15th Athens International Film Festival
Late 1960, Northern Greece: the Thessaloniki Film Festival is launched, and my father, aged 27, emigrates to Australia. Late 2009: the Thessaloniki festival celebrates its
Turning X in an XXY World: The 10th Mezipatra Queer Film Festival
A Quick Backgrounder, For Those Who Came in Late With its advent smack-bang on the first year of a new millennium, Mezipatra, the Czech Republic’s
Flying Dreams of a Fledgling Festival: The 3rd Middle East International Film Festival
Who’d a thunk it? All of a sudden the Persian Gulf is host to a slew of film festivals brimming with internationalist, top-tier ambition and