All Festivals articles – Page 121
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NewsPalestine Film Institute welcomes latest statement from IDFA
Festival statement followed a PFI statement lambasting IDFA’s earlier statement.
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Reviews‘Selling A Colonial War’: IDFA Review
An examination of Dutch attempts to reframe the Indonesian War Of Independence
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NewsUS ‘Billy Elliot’-style doc ‘Call Me Dancer’ sells to Toei for Japan for First Hand Films (exclusive)
First Hand Films is at IDFA with a busy slate including portmanteau project ’The Ten Commandments’.
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NewsGeneva festival and digital market hands out prizes, celebrates buoyant year
The best feature prize went to ’Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’.
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NewsPalestine Film Institute urges withdrawal of films from IDFA following response to opening-night protest
The PFI has issued a petition demanding IDFA acknowledge the festival’s earlier statement ”unjustly criminalises Palestinian voices and narratives”.
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Reviews‘The G’: Tallinn Review
Dale Dickey shines as a pensioner woman determined to take revenge on those who would exploit her
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Reviews‘Misericordia’: Tallinn Review
Three Italian sex workers care for a vulnerable man in Emma Dante’s allegorical third feature
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Reviews‘Danger Zone’: IDFA Review
Eye-popping documentary follows so-called ’war tourists’ to active front lines
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Reviews‘The Clinic’: IDFA Review
Midi Z’s portrait of a Myanmar health clinic widens to explore the plight of a country in turmoil
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Reviews‘The Quiet Maid’: Tallinn Review
The Colombian maid for a wealthy Spanish family begins to expand her own horizons in this accomplished debut
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Reviews‘Touched’: Thessaloniki Review
A paralysed man embarks on a clandestine relationship with his care assistant in this frank German drama
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Reviews‘Guest Star’: Thessaloniki Review
Vasilis Christofilakis writes, directs and stars in this Greek celebrity satire
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Reviews‘Cafe’: Thessaloniki Review
Jailed Iranian filmmaker Navid Mihanoust presents an self-referential tale of a director living in limbo while waiting for a prison sentence
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NewsIDFA apologises for “hurtful” slogan shown by activists at opening ceremony
”That slogan does not represent us, and we do not endorse it in any way.”
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NewsIDFA responds to open letter condemning inclusion of Russian film in programme
The letter said: “To continue providing space for representatives of the Russian cultural sector on international platforms means to normalize the unequal circumstances in which filmmakers in Russia and Ukraine live and work today.”
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Reviews‘We Have Never Been Modern’: Thessaloniki Review
Period Czech drama set at the dawn of the Second World War has a decidedly modern sensibility
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NewsMagnolia acquires US rights to Participant, River Road doc ‘Food, Inc. 2’
Dogwoof boards international sales.
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Reviews‘Patient #1’: Tallinn Review
A young nurse in Moscow at the end of the Soviet era struggles to care for a VIP patient
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Reviews‘Murderess’: Thessaloniki Review
Unrelentingly brutal period drama about an ageing midwife who battles the patriarchy in a remote Greek village
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Reviews‘A Picture To Remember’: IDFA Review
IDFA 2023 opens with an intimate film about the effects of war on one Ukranian family