All Festivals articles – Page 176
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FeaturesA matter of factual: Do documentary festivals need to change their focus?
As docs struggle at cinemas, change may be needed.
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NewsStockholm’s top prize goes to Ali Abbasi’s ‘Holy Spider’
Other winners include Emily, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed; Swedish Film Institute unveils new talent Wild Card prizes.
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NewsIranian drama ‘A Tale Of Shemroon’ scoops top prize at Marrakech Film Festival
Director Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi dedicates award to ‘women of Iran and younger generation.’
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Reviews‘Riverbed’: Cairo Review
A mother and daughter struggle to reconnect in Bassem Breche’s imagery-led feature debut
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Reviews‘Typist Artist Pirate King’: Tallinn Review
Carol Morley presents a fictionalised portrait of little-known avant-garde schizophrenic artist Audrey Amiss
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Reviews‘The Astronaut’: Cairo Review
Nicolas Giraud’s portrait of a French loner sending himself to space fails to get off the ground
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NewsGravitas Ventures, Mk2 strike deal over Australian Tribeca selection ‘Blaze’ (exclusive)
Julia Savage, Simon Baker, Josh Lawson, Yael Stone star.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Esther van Messel on arriving first, wise women and maintaining a champagne-stocked fridge
The CEO of Swiss doc outfit FIrst Hand Films spent time on a kibbutz before studying film with Ari Folman and Hagi Levi.
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NewsBerlinale faces reduction in screens at key venue ahead of 2023 edition
Around half of the 3,500 seats at Berlin’s biggest cinema complex, the Vue-owned CinemaxX, will be unavailable.
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Reviews‘Apolonia, Apolonia’: IDFA Review
IDFA’s International Competition winner is an intimate portrait of Danish-French artist Apolonia Sokol
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Reviews‘19B’: Cairo Review
An elderly caretaker tends to a crumbling Cairo villa in Ahmad Abdalla’s engaging third feature
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FeaturesIndustry@Tallinn reshapes schedule, gifts and dinners to adjust to Estonia’s rising costs
The industry programme is four packed days compared to eight in previous years.
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Reviews‘Alam’: Cairo Review
A Palestinian-Israeli teenager struggles to shake off the weight of history in Firas Khoury’s feature debut
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NewsDanish director Lea Glob’s ‘Apolonia, Apolonia’ wins best film in IDFA international competition
Festival continues through Sunday.
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Reviews‘How Dare You Have Such A Rubbish Wish’: IDFA Review
Mania Akbari explores the depiction of women on screen through an archive of pre-Revlutionary Iranian cinema
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NewsFears for future of ‘Ukrainian new wave’ as funding dries up and talent leaves country
IDFA is one of many festivals to have strong Ukrainian line-up - but can this continue?
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NewsMarco Mueller named artistic director of China’s Hainan film festival
Former director of Venice, Rome and Locarno film festivals joins ahead of fourth edition.
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Reviews‘Personality Crisis: One Night Only’: IDFA Review
Former New York Dolls frontman David Johansen brings his Buster Poindexter persona to the Manhattan stage
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NewsVirtual reality hubs to launch in three Dutch cinemas, supported by IDFA
The New Reality initiative is the brainchild of Cassette Stories’ Babette Wijntjes.
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Reviews‘Bread And Salt’: Cairo Review
Damian Kocur’s mature and thought-provoking debut sees a talented pianist return to the pressure cooker of his small home town