Long reads & features
Deep dive into the festival’s programming with our archive of long-form articles and commissioned features. Discover the stories behind the most recent editions here.
2022
Read essays on queerness without a closet, making meaning in Yugoslavia, the poetics of documentary staging, and deconstructing the dictates of masculinity.
2021
These commissioned writings look to feelings of documentary futurity, contemporary queer cinema, Artavazd Pelechian’s mesmeric stream of images, and new voices of (post)colonial cinema.
2020
From the pulsating cinema of Gianfranco Rosi to the highlights of Morocco’s film scene, the below reading discusses some touchstones of our 2020 edition.
2019
Explore the 2019 edition through reflections on archive affection, domesticating reality, Patricio Guzmán’s life and work, shaping filmic space, meeting real-life villains, and commemorating WWII.
2018
Among other focuses, this edition homed in on Helena Třeštíková’s time-lapse method of filmmaking, Dziga Vertov’s long-lost first film, and the ritual of engaging with interactive and immersive work.
2017
Our 30th edition came with a myriad of publishing: on unchartered rituals, documentary cinematography, and interviews with Frederick Wiseman, Kim Longinotto, John Appel, Pirjo Honkasalo, Mila Turajlić, and Talal Derki.
