Festival Reports
Unlikely Heroes: The 31st Sundance Film Festival and the 20th Pan African Film and Arts Festival
As many had expected, Benh Zeitlin’s first feature, Beasts of the Southern Wild, won The Grand Jury Prize, as well The Excellence in Cinematography Award
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Raiders of the Lost Archive: the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
The biennial Bangkok Experimental Film Festival had its sixth incarnation from 24 January to 5 February 2012 with a focus on the archive as inspiration
“The Cinema Leads Me There”: the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam
Ugly city, beautiful cinema. It strikes me that the world’s major film festivals are opposed in nature to the cities that host them. Take Berlin.
Grand Finales: The International Forum of New Cinema at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin was particularly icy this February; even discounting the gusts of wind that howled across Potsdamer Platz in the evenings, temperatures dropped below -20 °C.
Alice in Wonder-Mall and Wonder-Beach: The AFI/Fest and American Film Market
Your fearless film critic, Alice, was getting ready to cover the new edition of the AFI Fest which, this year again, was Presented by Audi
Signals, Symptoms and Seditious Suggestions: The 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam
Understanding how people can be manipulated through emotions, for example, is as useful for those who wish to avoid this as it is for those
The Politics of Body Parts, Programming and the Redistribution of Land: The 49th Viennale
In a state in which politics are generally considered synonymous with proportional representation (and that is a nice and rather euphemistic way of describing the
Between the lines and to the point: The 68th Venice Film Festival
By the time this report is out, many changes have occurred within Italian and international festival politics. What is left to say now is only
Audience and Industry: The 24th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
“You bump into experiences, films, each other, opinions…on the internet you’re always searching for something, but during a festival you’re not looking – you’re finding.”
Nostalgia, Chaos, and Moments of Ecstasy: The 36th Toronto International Film Festival
Festival Business The opening weekend of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival also signalled the beginning of TIFF’s second year in the $200 million dollar
