Now in its second year, the brilliant Tiger Festival showcases the best in Far Eastern Cinema.
Preview by Siouxzi Mernagh

Makoto Shinkai makes thoughtful, austere animation films that tap into contemporary concerns about humanity’s relationship with technology. At his best, his films show a director who has a genuinely affecting visual aesthetic that recalls the live action films of Andrei Tarkovsky.
Interview by Alex Fitch

Udine, a small town in north-eastern Italy, has become the unlikely European Mecca for Far Eastern Films. Though in its tenth year, this April festival remains a well-kept secret.
Feature by Joey Leung

Flipside is one of London’s most imaginative film nights, delighting in oddball, off-centre and way-out cinema.
Feature by Virginie Sélavy

A look at Cannes behind the scenes.
Feature by Joey Leung

The short film selection at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival offers unconventional angles on familiar themes.
Preview by Lisa Williams

Congregation’s nerve-jangling, heart-stopping old-time blues has been wowing audiences across London for over a year. They’ve compiled a list of their ten favourite films for us below, and their choices betray a love for the intense and the personal, and a penchant for tortured heroes and heroines.

In 1965 and 1967, Czechoslovakia won its first Hollywood Oscars – for A Shop on the High Street and Closely Observed Trains. In the same period, Miloš Forman’s A Blonde in Love (1965) and The Firemen’s Ball (1967) were also short-listed, and at Cannes in 1968 three Czech films were in competition. It was a golden era for Czech and Slovak cinema and, for a time, names such as Miloš Forman, Jiří Menzel, and Věra Chytilová were up there among the leading art-house directors.
Feature by Peter Hames

We talk to Xavier Mendik, organiser of the Cine-Excess festival, which mixes academic conference on all aspects of cult cinema and screenings of films at the ICA (London), May 1-3.
Interview by Virginie Sélavy

While the BFI’s Pop Goes the Revolution season was a slightly fluffy affair offering little insight into French cinema and May 68, this month sees the Southbank cinema host part of the Fashion in Film Festival, which conversely offers an impressively rich and well thought out programme.
Preview by Virginie Sélavy