By James Udden. Before attending the Festival des 3 Continents, I had only associated Nantes with a historical edict and a film festival I hoped to attend someday. Now I associate the actual film festival with an actual city, and a delightful one at that. Since very little is written […]
21st Philadelphia Film Festival, October 18-28, 2012
By Michael Miller. Unspooling at eight venues across Center City and West Philly, the 21st Philadelphia Film Festival celebrated mainstream, independent, and foreign cinema from local filmmakers and world masters. The festival offered something for every film lover from its various programs, which included World Narratives, New French Films and […]
Viennale: Vienna International Film Festival Report 25 Oct – 7 Nov, 2012
By Yun-hua Chen. This year Viennale celebrates its 50th anniversary. After the opening gala, Ben Affleck’s Argo (2012), Viennale offers two weeks’ feast of feature films, short film programs, In Focus programme, and retrospectives. Especially striking in its selection of documentaries are those documenting musicians of different gender, generations, geopolitical […]
Of This Time: Artfilm, Slovakia
By Robert Buckeye. Film festivals can be cruise-liner worlds with several thousand people removing themselves from the world for a period of time to see films, make connections and do business Nick Riddick writes, but not all cruise ships are alike nor do they go to the same places. Some […]
56th BFI London Film Festival | 10-21 October, 2012
By Deborah Allison. After nine years under the directorship of Sandra Hebron, the London Film Festival has seen some substantial changes in the company of its new director Clare Stewart. Without wishing to do disservice to Hebron’s tenure, I’m pleased to say that most have been positive. This year’s stripped-back […]
Canterbury Anifest | 5 October – 6 October, 2012
By Chris Pallant. Now in its sixth year, Canterbury Anifest continues to grow from strength to strength, this year hosting representatives from studios such as Aardman, Double Negative, DreamWorks, and Pixar. What started out as an ambitious but small-scale council initiative in 2007 has grown steadily over the past five […]
The New York Film Festival, 28 September – 14 October, 2012
By Gary M. Kramer. Celebrating 50 Years, the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center showcased celebrities–from Nicole Kidman for The Paperboy (Daniels, 2012) to Denzel Washington, star of the closing night film Flight (Zemeckis, 2012). An international cast of filmmakers was also on hand–from Chile’s No (Larrain, 2012) to […]
Safar’s Friday Forum
September 24, 2012
Malu Halasa reports from “Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema,” the most ambitious programme of popular Arab film ever seen in the UK, organized by The Arab British Centre, in partnership with The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and Dubai International Film Festival, 21-27 September 2012. “We are not […]
12th New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, July 19th – 29th 2012
By Rob Dennis. The New Horizons Film Festival, taking place for the 12th year in the city of Wroclaw, Poland, displayed a distinctly Latin character this year. With a strand devoted to new Mexican cinema and a retrospective of the films of Carlos Reygadas (showcasing the Polish premiere of his […]
Wanderers and Nomads in Edinburgh
By Yun-hua Chen. This year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (20 June-1 July, 2012), led by the new artistic director Chris Fujiwara, differed from last year in a remarkable way. It broke from the previous year’s strong link with University of Edinburgh and strategically placed itself closer to other art forms […]