Posted byby LidaLostSeptember 7, 2026Locarno 2026 Intro: Auteur lineup, Ambition & Adventure The big anniversary is still one edition away but the excitement is already palpable, as is…
Posted byby LidaLostSeptember 7, 2026KVIFF 2026 Opening Feature: Future Past It’s a big birthday for the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Its upcoming edition is supposed…
Posted byby LidaLostSeptember 7, 2026Cannes 2026 Recap: Movies, Media & McCannesism The Red Carpet at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, celebrated from 12th to 23rd May, overshadowed…
Posted byby LidaLostSeptember 7, 2026Film with an Off-Taste: The 2nd International Gastronomy Film Festival Even renowned film festivals struggle with dwindling funds, fear being gutted in times of political polarization,…
Posted byby LidaLostSeptember 7, 2026Shanghai International Film Festival 2026 Opening: Between Past and Future While Eurocentric eyes already turn towards Locarno and the Venice Biennale generates its own ambivalent advertising…
Posted byby LidaLostSeptember 7, 2026Shanghai 2026 Recap “Cinema is the art of dreaming, and Shanghai is the very vessel on which the Chinese…
Posted byby LidaLostSeptember 7, 2026KVIFF 2026 Recap_ Style over Substance The double birthday of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival which just could celebrate its 80th edition…
Posted byby LidaLostSeptember 7, 2026Visions du Réel 2026 Opening Feature: Reel Realities As facts and opinions become interchangeable, history is erased and rewritten, and deepfakes call both universal…
Posted byby LidaLostSeptember 7, 2026Visions du Réel 2026 Recap: “Old Strcutures, New Beginnings” Changes seem overdue at Visions du Réel, as the festival’s 57th edition closing today proved once…
Posted byby LidaLostSeptember 6, 2026Berlinale 2026 Cosing Feature: Cinephilia & Censorship It might have seemed surprising, but shouldn’t have been, given the Berlinale’s tradition of giving out…