The starting point: Canadian-based filmmaker Itai Erdal receives a phone call, telling him his mother has been diagnosed with lung cancer and has nine months to live. He travels to Israel to spend as much time as he can with her in her last months. He documents that time together, shooting hours and hours of […]

Oh what a jolly jape is this! All our favourite Quixote moments are here, delivered with great gusto. Stephen Harper’s height grants a great advantage to a clown interpretation of the battle with the windmills; the lovely lady Dulcinea (who never appears in the original text) here appears flamenco-dancing on demand, every time her name […]

Raymondo is the whimsical tale of a boy and his brother, and their adventure after they escape from an underground cellar in which they have been trapped for six years. Told by writer Annie Siddons, the story is intricate and lyrical, performed in a style akin to a spoken word poet, musical and rhythmic storytelling. […]

Late at night, high up in the C Chambers street, a little bit of magic is unfolding in this beautiful small scale show imported from the Far East as part of the showcase programme Made in Macau. Originally created for bookshops, this corner room is dolled with piles and shelves of books and illuminated only […]

It happens on occasion at this festival, which presents such a wide and variable spectrum of art, that one comes across a show that stubbornly refuses to be put into a category. There are shows that avoid definition by genre, and sometimes even make it difficult to describe them as either good or bad: they […]