Reflections 9
While encouraging for the industry and overwhelmingly good as far as concerns the contemporary spate of news, it also makes me wonder ...
The New African Cinema at the Ca Foscari Short Film Festival
The three curated films offer female-centric views of the world and are full of imagination and ultimately love.
Reflections 8
This week, a so-called debate took place on the world stage. It has been described as “an old man arguing with a ...
Reflections 7
How I am deciding what to watch is, potentially, the most troubling aspect, though, and gives testament to what cinemas are best ...
Reflections 6: What does it mean to contribute to film criticism?
Yesterday, eight artistic directors of hefty European film festivals attended the opening night of the 77th Venice International Film Festival. Press releases ...
Reflections 5
I can’t write if I don’t read. This is because I don’t invent, I respond; to art, to others, and even to ...
Reflections 4
I have started watching films, exploring artwork and understanding the world in the same way that I do my grocery shopping. One ...
EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for Anna Samo's animation Conversations With A Whale
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8Interviews
Interview: Monica Mazzitelli, the director of “The Wedding Cake” (2020)
With her latest short “The Wedding Cake”, Monica Mazzitelli won the international short film competition at the RVK feminist Film Festival, which kicked off in January this year.
Interview: Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir, the director of Islandia (2018)
Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir studied directing and script writing at the Icelandic Film School, and has gathered experience in the film production. With her debut short film Islandia, a very personal take on her own traumatic experience, she steered controversy in her home country by openly addressing the sensitive topic of rape…
Documentaries
Review: Park (2020)
The Swedish directing duo Lucia Pagano and Vanja Sandell Billström spent a year filming people in parks in Stockholm over the course of seasons, studying their behaviour and activities
Shorts
Review: Swimmer (2020)
An ordinary, busy day at the swimming pool is interrupted by the unexpected visit of a couple of police officers willing to investigate the owner of a green Volvo parked outside
Experimental Films
Review: Bos (2020)
Geypens plays with one-dimensional understanding of the universe and our perception of what is above and what below the ground. Connection between human beings and the nature is put to the test.
Review: Spontaneous (2020)
Lori Felker does an extremely courageous thing to make a documentary about her own trauma.
Programme overview: Animation Refinery
Sometimes, animation is a perfect vehicle for experiments.
Review: Faceless (2020)
No matter how the political mainstream in Croatia wants to control the narrative about the country’s first and war-time president Franjo Tuđman as the “father of the nation”, he remains the controversial figure that, like a skeleton, jumps out of the closet around the elections time.
Open Calls
Open Call for Circle 2020
CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator announces the call for an exclusive one-year training program.
