Orla Smith picks eight great film from the 2020 London Short Film Festival (LSFF), one of the funnest film festivals in the UK.
Film Festivals
A closer look at the TIFF 2019 Platform Competition
Proxima and My Zoe set the bar for what we should expect from female characters in film in TIFF’s Platform Competition, its flagship program for emerging filmmakers.
TIFF’s Platform Competition is having an identity crisis
Is TIFF’s Platform Competition helping to spotlight great under-the-radar world cinema or merely taking the spotlight away from worthier titles?
LFF’s Official Competition highlights emerging trends among young auteurs
Ben Flanagan muses on LFF 2019’s competition selection and to what extent it represents the current state of cinema, particularly British and genre cinema.
Cinéfranco celebrates francophone cinema in Toronto
Cinefranco featured must-see francophone films from Quebec and Europe, including Jeune Juliette, Un amour impossible, and In Safe Hands (Pupille).
Toronto’s ImagineNATIVE festival celebrates Indigenous films
The 20th ImagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto featured great Indigenous films from around the world. Highlights included: Vai, Top End Wedding, and Blood Quantum.