Tradition Is the Handing on of Fire

Tradition Is the Handing on of Fire

Postcard From The 36th Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankyla, Finland, June 14th-18th 2023 Saturday has become Sunday, it’s 1am in Sodankylä, northern Finland, and Tarmo Marjamaa clambers out of a ketchup-red, East German, visibly 1980s-vintage Wartburg 353...
Ever and ever, forever and Evia

Ever and ever, forever and Evia

A postcard from the first Evia Film Project, 15-19 June 2022 Among Greek islands, Evia is second in size only to Crete, more than double the size of the next largest, Lesbos, and nearly triple the size of the fourth-largest, Rhodes. But while everybody knows at least...
Horror-Night in Seville

Horror-Night in Seville

The Grotesque Popcorn Marathon continues to be a popular fixture on the penultimate night of the Seville European Film Festival “Ex-hu-mac-ion! Ex-hu-mac-ion! Ex-hu-mac-ion!” The Spanish audience in Seville’s Teatro de la Alameda picks up the...
X Marks the Spot in Xixón

X Marks the Spot in Xixón

Neil Young reports from the Gijón International Film Festival in Spain Gijón is a city of cinema, haunted by the ghosts of cinemas past. In 1963, when it first hosted the event now known as the Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón (FICX for short)—for two decades a...