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Exploring virtual worlds together: Alternate Realities at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018
The days of isolated immersion may be numbered as several powerful VR films at this year’s festival were designed to be experienced in groups, without a headset in sight, reports Marisol Grandon.
Wednesday 4 July 2018 -
Beyond the bunker mentality: seven disobliging Israeli documentaries at Docaviv 2018
Probing social aspirations ranging from isolation to outreach to armageddon, the native films at the 20th edition of Tel Aviv’s documentary film festival suggest that debate and dissent are not – yet – off limits for the country’s culture, reports Paul O’Callaghan.
Wednesday 27 June 2018 -
3 days in Cannes – and one step on the festival’s ladder
The Cannes Film Festival can seem like cinema’s impregnable citadel on a hill – but one of its modernising initiatives for 2018 was a special final-weekend pass for budding young cinephiles, 3 Days in Cannes. Naomi Obeng joined the raid.
Friday 25 May 2018 -
The best short films at Cannes 2018
The shorts selections in the Competition, Cinefondation, Quinzaine and Semaine offered up miniature marvels that sometimes exhibited more craft in a matter of minutes than some visionaries were able to realise in a much meatier runtime, report Catherine Bray and Jake Cunningham.
Thursday 24 May 2018 -
What should have won Cannes 2018’s Palme d’Or?
This year there were at least eight great candidates for the prize, says Nick James.
Saturday 19 May 2018 -
Raze the red carpet: Cannes 2018 responds to #MeToo
To the #TimesUp moment and the world after Weinstein, Cannes offered an anti-harrasment hotline – but mostly just ceded its platform to women themselves to make the change, says Rebecca Harrison.
Friday 18 May 2018 -
Breaking the silence: Hot Docs 2018 addresses the #MeToo moment
Toronto’s international documentary film festival showcased a series of films that reckon with our moment of sexual-relations redress – offering a vision of creative nonfiction as a space to transcend victimhood, writes Simran Hans.
Thursday 17 May 2018 -
Sinners and saviours at Cannes 2018: a late-midway round-up
The festival is quieter in the wake of Weinstein, but the Competition films have come out punching – not least Spike Lee’s potent race satire BlacKkKlansman, reports Nick James.
Wednesday 16 May 2018 -
Realities in progress: four highlights of Cinéma du Réel 2018
From a Parisian high school and Berlin’s airport to a Portuguese fisherman and Uruguyuan street protesters, the best films at the 40th edition of Paris’s international documentary festival found ways to engage with their chosen realities as much as with their own artistic complexities, reports Celluloid Liberation Front.
Friday 11 May 2018 -
Looking backwards, moving forwards: 10 of the best at Sci-Fi-London 2018
This year’s festival contains a paradoxical set of films that merge progression and retrospection to mind-bending effect, from the imaginatively unhinged mind games of Nothing Really Happens to movies exploring retrofuturism, resurrection and regression, writes Anton Bitel.
Friday 27 April 2018
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