Festival Reports
Where More Meets MORE: The 37th Toronto International Film Festival
“Where OMG Meets WTF”. This was the first tagline I spotted at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Others included “Where Fantasy Meets Reality”, “Where
A Cinema Storm on the Upper West Side: The 50th New York Film Festival
A dialogue between Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling I. NYFF & Richard Peña JS: A film festival is always more fun with a friend. So
Minding the Gap Between Fiction and Reality: CPH:DOX Celebrates 10 Years
In one of the many engaging panel discussions on the “documentary arts”, as one filmmaker called them, at the 10th edition of Copenhagen’s international documentary
Truth, Myths and Clichés: The 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival
Chinese independent cinema as a film movement has been regenerated at various socio-historical conjunctures throughout the past twenty years. Nowadays, some independent filmmakers take the
Tales of Entropy: The 31st Vancouver International Film Festival
Monster From the Deep Off the coast of Bangladesh, the tiny island of Banishanta (about 100 by 10 metres) is flat, exposed to the vagaries
Discovering the Hub of Asian Cinema: The 17th Busan International Film Festival
Over the last few years the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has done much to raise its global profile. Last year, under the new direction
The Last Time I Saw Lisbon & Estoril: The 6th Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival
Now in its sixth year, Paulo Branco’s Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival (LEFFEST) has carved out a niche on the roster of smaller European fests
A State of Urgency: The 2012 DocLisboa – International Documentary Film Festival
Urgency was the key word for the 10th anniversary of DocLisboa. The urgency of the state of the world around us; the urgency of finding
Festival Reports
Contents: Jorge Mourinha on Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival Sally Shafto on Khouribga Bill Mousoulis on Karlovy Vary Alison Frank on New Horizons
Textures of Memory, Images in Flux: The 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival
At first blush, it seems difficult to pin-down what this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) was trying to be: with an international programme borrowing