Former and current participants in the Young Critics Workshop at Film Fest Gent respond to the short films created for the festival's 50th.

On a cinema engaged critically with the all-consuming profit motive but fundamentally disentangled from its demands.

A series of speculations, anonymously written by the 2023 editorial board.

The essays coming out of the ninth Young Critics Workshop at Film Fest Gent all deal with absences.

On remaking as an adaptation of cinematic essences for new expressive possibilities.

Compromise as a frisson point from which pure cinema can arise: a cinematic essence, in other words.

How do you write about something that isn’t there?

An exploration of various uses of 'silence' in cinema, from the silent era to the present day.

The essays coming out of the eighth Young Critics Workshop at Film Fest Gent all deal with the tension between the real and the artificial.

A closer look at how Greek cinema addresses the question of freedom from the 1950s onwards, in ways both conventional and unconventional.

An exploration of the film musical’s almost unwieldy power of toppling over any steady boundaries between reality and fiction.

An examination of films that touch upon longings, differences, irresolvabilities that haunt us, that insist on staying in conversation.

The search for a Rosetta Stone to further the necessary reinterpretations of acting and directing.

A look at filmmakers' writing, not to find hidden meaning in their films, but explore the tension between their intentions and their work.

The essays coming out of the seventh Young Critics Workshop at Film Fest Gent all deal with films concerned with community and physicality.

A critical reworking of the appointed stylistic commonalities that unite diverse filmmakers under the banner of the 'Berlin School'.

An exploration of the relationship between national identity and cinema as a manifold thing, born out of a complex web of factors.

On the cinematographic representation of growing up in a world you were thrown into without a choice.

On the political role of cinema in its various phases of its interdependency with history at large.

On the experience, ethics, aesthetics and philosophy of duration in cinema.