Another filmfest finished. I run out of puff toward the end and didn’t manage to write up film reviews for the final two days. I was also conscious of needing sleep as I anticipated a busy time at NLS8 the following weekend; in hindsight that was a very wise move as NLS8 was exhausting. I have a conference mode where I somehow assume the guise of someone vaguely extroverted and throw myself into things and chat to as many people as I can. However in doing so, sucks the energy out of me and I have felt rather fatigued in the days since.
Back to filmfest and I think I managed 28 films this time, slightly up on 27 from last year. It was almost 29 but I chose not to go to a 9.30am screening on the final morning and chose a decent sleep-in and a casual brekky. That film would have been a doco on NASA’s Voyager programme, The Farthest, which I gather was really amazing.
Some things don’t change, the app is still dodgy, the search is still dodgy and the website is still dodgy eg the app has several search options except title search. My partner and I have different android phones, and when she hit the back button to return from ticket to movie list, whereas for me the back button returned me to the home screen. The desktop version of the website only displays the search option if your browser is a particular width, too narrow and and it won’t work.
Tech issues aside, filmfest remained generally excellent and I think this was the first year I managed to avoid a dud film altogether, though Ms16 was less successful alas. This is a list, in alphabetical order, of all the films that stood out for me:
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