Author: Milani Perera
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The Fribourg International Film Festival Artistic Director Reflects on Audience-Centred Programming, Political Curation, and Why Festivals Must Resist Becoming Cultural Algorithms At a time when…
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From festivals to streaming platforms, Woods reflects on why context, audience intelligence, and creative risk still matter in a saturated screen culture At a time…
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Breaking the Pattern: Bastian Meiresonne on Programming, Power, and the Politics of Film Circulation
How films travel—and why most don’t it—is not a mystery. It’s a system. Before a film reaches an audience, it has already passed through a…
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Jeremy Chua shares his perspectives on producing films, shaping SGIFF, and why festivals remain vital as spaces of discovery, emphasising his core ideas for readers…
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Tamara Tatishvili on risk, artistic freedom, and the fragility of development support What allows a film to begin before the world has decided it matters?…
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In conversation with Kinopear, the new Tallinn Black Nights artistic director discusses bold cinema, audience strategy, geopolitical complexity and the pressures reshaping festival leadership.
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Itonje Søimer Guttormsen on Butterfly and the Cinema of Lived Experience
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When Golshifteh Farahani walks into a room, she carries with her more than fame. She carries the weight of an entire cinematic tradition, the still-burning…
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On a quiet Tallinn afternoon, just hours after the world premiere of Think of England at the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Festival, I sat down with director…
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Before the winners of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival were announced, I spoke with filmmaker Eeva Mägi, whose Mo Papa would later receive a Special…
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