Our regular contributor, Betty Stojnić, attended the online portion of International Film Festival Rotterdam and gives us her take.

Betty Stojnić interviews Love Your Local co-curators about conceiving a new, online series for Cinetopia:DOC

So Mayer traces a brilliant outline of the social and historical context in which Varda shot Daguerréotypes.

Milo Farragher-Hanks reviews our second film in our documentary series, Love Your Local, showcasing how this film tackles questions around the benefits and definitions of the idea of a community

Curators Amaya Bañuelos Marco and Federica Pugliese introduce our new online programme of documentaries and curated online discussion exploring the significance of community.

Elisa interviews Franco Calandrini, head of the Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival, and they discuss adapting the festival format in the post-lockdown scenario.

Betty interviews musician Aurora Engine, with whom we collaborated on Electric Muses in March.

Befitting our current predicament, guest contributor Federica Pugliese examines films which have explored confinement and isolation.

A throwback to last month, in which Elisa took part as a volunteer for the Glasgow Film Festival.

In the midst of some troubling times, Elisa shows us the light in her account from Iberodocs’ closing night.

Betty’s back from Berlinale – here are her dispatches from the field.

Elisa gives us her in-depth take on this year’s Oscars ceremony.

In our new feature article, Betty Stojnić explores the positive effects of film networking through our first session of 2020.

Our newest contributor Elisa Teneggi takes a look at the Chinese Visual Festival’s recent visit to Edinburgh.

Part two of our favourite films of 2019, including Joker, Marriage Story, and The Irishman.

Part one of our favourite films of 2019, based on the UK calendar of releases.

Takeaways from our recent post-production masterclass, with full audio recording.

Takeaways from the EIFF Youth – opening events, Pride March, and things to come…

In the last few years, a new group of filmmakers has emerged across the UK, including Scotland. From an output consisting of both short and feature-length productions, their films are dark, strange, sparse in dialogue and imbued with an aura of ambiguity and...

by Serena Scateni Think of Italian cinema and the first names popping to mind are the well-known, glorified ones of the likes of Antonioni, Fellini, Monicelli, Bertolucci, and so on. As the same goes for any other country-specific cinema, charting the undiscovered...