Setting out in 2014, Gegenkino in Leipzig marked its 10th anniversary this year (missing out in 2020, the year of the pandemic). The film festival has turned into a calendar… Read More
Gegenkino 2024
Spotlight
Smoke, Steam and Civil Resistance at the 54th Tampere Film Festival
Tampere and saunas are inseparable — at least in the minds of those in the short film community who have attended or been regaled with stories about Tampere Film Festival… Read More
A festival as a genuflexion – the 20th anniversary edition of Animateka
A filmmakers Q&A – not right after the film but on the following day, and on top of that in a different venue, isn’t that a terrible idea? Won’t the auditorium be empty? The answer is a definite no: Because many people come to the Q&As that festival director Igor Prassel organises every single day of the 20th anniversary edition of Animateka (27.11.-3.12.) together with Chris Robinson – whose main job is the direction of the Ottawa International Animation Festival, yet he also serves as an advisor to the Slovenian animation institution. Read More
Anibar: Festival of Possibilities
Travel Notes from Kosovo
“What’s your name, where do you come from? Thanks for being here.” During the storyboard exhibition at the Kosovan Anibar Animation Festival, the volunteers eagerly seek out human contact… Read More
Svaneti International Film Festival
One of Georgia’s best-known toasts goes something like this: When God was apportioning out the land he had just created, he summoned everyone to a meeting. Georgians, of course,… Read More
Armenian Shorts on the Way to the National Cinema Reinvention
The short film form, a synonym for certain artistic freedom in the presumptively dependent on high budgets film industry, could play a crucial part in the process of reinvention of a national cinema. The ingenuity and aesthetic diversity of the newest Armenian short films caught my eye still in 2021 when I first attended Yerevan’s Golden Apricot International Film Festival. Read More