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		<title>Unlikely Heroes: The 31st Sundance Film Festival and the 20th Pan African Film and Arts Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bérénice Reynaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 (for Ben Richardson’s magic-realist imagery) in the US Dramatic Competition. On stage, six year-old Quvenzhané Wallis was smiling without being coy, kept asserting her desire to speak, and, when asked ]]></description>
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		<title>Raiders of the Lost Archive: the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk de Bruyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 for new critical artist films and as invocation to locate lost or forgotten Asian experimental works. The new works program was formed from open call submissions predominantly from across Asia. ]]></description>
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		<title>“The Cinema Leads Me There”: the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Fairfax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The city is an epicentre of alternative subcultures, artistic avant-gardes and political contestation, and yet its festival is, for the most part, a tame and tepid affair, seemingly focused more ]]></description>
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		<title>Grand Finales: The International Forum of New Cinema at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mattias Frey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The extreme weather provided an appropriate counterpart to the peculiar political climate, which ran the gamut of the good, bad and ugly: daily news of the booming, record-defying German economy; ]]></description>
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		<title>Alice in Wonder-Mall and Wonder-Beach: The AFI/Fest and American Film Market</title>
		<link>http://sensesofcinema.com/2012/festival-reports/alice-in-wonder-mall-and-wonder-beach-the-afifest-and-american-film-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bérénice Reynaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 and offering free tickets to the audiences – the former explaining the latter. Taking place in the historical-touristic centre of Hollywood from November 3 to 10, the festival had invited ]]></description>
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		<title>Signals, Symptoms and Seditious Suggestions: The 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celluloid Liberation Front</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 who wish to practice it. – Sun Tzu in The Art of War The tyranny of financial abstraction is having very concrete repercussions on our cultural landscape, austerity enforcers reach ]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Body Parts, Programming and the Redistribution of Land: The 49th Viennale</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Wurm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Austrian “proporz”), it should be taken as a good habit that its main film festival shows great affection towards topics such as “democracy in process” – like the meticulous depiction ]]></description>
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		<title>Between the lines and to the point: The 68th Venice Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Wurm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 this much: it is indeed hard to think of a festival director with more insight and delicacy (from programming to representation) than Marco Mueller. Venice is a total cinematic pleasure, ]]></description>
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		<title>Audience and Industry: The 24th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam</title>
		<link>http://sensesofcinema.com/2012/festival-reports/audience-and-industry-the-24th-international-documentary-festival-amsterdam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You bump into experiences, films, each other, opinions&#8230;on the internet you’re always searching for something, but during a festival you’re not looking – you’re finding.” – Martijn te Pas, IDFA Program Coordinator Despite recent government spending cutbacks in the Dutch cultural sector that will massively reduce the amount of support available for film productions and ]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgia, Chaos, and Moments of Ecstasy: The 36th Toronto International Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://sensesofcinema.com/2011/festival-reports/nostalgia-chaos-and-moments-of-ecstasy-the-36th-toronto-international-film-festival-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Hughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 TIFF Bell Lightbox. The public side of the facility features five theatres, a ticket office, two galleries, a store and two cafés; the upper floors hold office space, private screening ]]></description>
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		<title>A Tribute to Éric Rohmer: The 26th Belfort International Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Perkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 26th Entrevues festival in the charming town of Belfort in eastern France was a bustle of activity on many levels. As usual, it paid court to new movies, long and short, and offered themed series, including overviews of the Western and the Bad Boys (not the same category!), a tribute to Howard Hawks, two ]]></description>
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		<title>Telling Real-Life Stories: the 9th DocLisboa International Documentary Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://sensesofcinema.com/2011/festival-reports/telling-real-life-stories-the-9th-doclisboa-international-documentary-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jorge Mourinha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of nine years, DocLisboa has grown in stature into one of the key European shop windows of modern non-fiction film. Lisbon&#8217;s documentary film festival has become a yearly rendezvous, an opportunity to take a clear-eyed look at the state of the art in the documentary world, with the cream of the year&#8217;s ]]></description>
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		<title>Neither Subordinate to the Other: the 10th I Mille Occhi festival</title>
		<link>http://sensesofcinema.com/2011/festival-reports/neither-subordinate-to-the-other-the-10th-i-mille-occhi-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celluloid Liberation Front</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Representation is a denial of participation” – Muammar Gaddafi in The Green Book Used to the soothing distraction film festivals offer in the form of anal-retentive social events and cultural bulimia, to encounter I Mille Occhi (Italian for “The Thousand Eyes”) is a pleasantly disorienting experience. A recipient for socio-aesthetic potentialities rather than a trend ]]></description>
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		<title>Conflicting Landscapes: The 30th Vancouver International Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bérénice Reynaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema went to the first digital film of a young Tibetan director, Sonthar Gyal’s Dbus Lam Gyi Nyi Ma (The Sun-Beaten Path), that had already received a Special Mention in the Asian Digital Competition in Hong Kong in March; the winner of the Golden Digital Prize had been ]]></description>
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		<title>I’ll Be Your Mirror: Nan Goldin’s Film Curation at CPH:DOX</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Cohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That’s not what it’s about for me. It’s really about relationships and feelings. . . . It’s not about a style or a look or a setup. It’s about emotional obsession and empathy. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Moviegoer’s Lament, or a Report on Recine, Rio de Janeiro’s International Festival of Archival Cinema</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shari Kizirian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recine, the International Festival of Archival Cinema, is the stuff a cinephile’s dreams are made of. Its slate bulges with beloved classics, premiering restorations, and a host of new films competing for prizes, including one for best research. Each day from 10am to 5pm, films were scheduled back-to-back in the vaulted-roof “cellars” of the National ]]></description>
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		<title>A Prisoner of the Palace: The 49th New York Film Festival Remains Comfortably Installed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergey Levchin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If this were the 50th edition of the New York Film Festival – and the year in which programming director Richard Peña hands over the reins of the Film Society of Lincoln Center after 25 years in command – then the shape of the changes to come might have appeared more distinctly. As it is, ]]></description>
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		<title>A Twilight Portrait: A Report on the 21st Film Festival Cottbus, Festival of East European Cinema</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cerise Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Film Festival Cottbus: 21 this year! One might then pause to consider, with the festival attaining maturity (if we were to arbitrarily decide that 21 is, as we do with humans, a marker of such): does its mission still hold up to scratch? Much as queer film festivals are given every few years to ]]></description>
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		<title>A Year of Triumph and Tragedy: Iranian Cinema and the First Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Langford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inaugural Iranian Film Festival Australia kicked off in Brisbane on 4 August 2011 in spectacular fashion with a sell-out screening of Asghar Farhadi’s acclaimed new film Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (A Separation, 2011). With true Iranian hospitality, the event culminated in a party featuring Persian music and delectable servings of Iranian wedding rice. In ]]></description>
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		<title>The Old Converges with the New: The 59th San Sebastián Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Ryan and Debi Enker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Issue 61]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like the gorgeous city that hosts it, the Festival de Donostia-San Sebastián Zinemaldia continues to display a healthy respect for the past, an open-minded appreciation of the present and a nurturing concern for the future. A major highlight of this year’s festival, the 59th, and our primary rationale for attending it, was a complete retrospective ]]></description>
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