July 17th-22nd, Syros, Greece. Six days of immersive film events embedded in diverse locations around the island Syros, from abandoned fields to beaches, a drive-in cinema to old shipyards. SIFF screens across genre, time-period, and media. This year’s festival program reflects the question: IS IT REAL?

2018 Artists in Focus: Jürgen Reble and Thomas Köner, Miguel Gomes, Johan Grimonprez. Performances by: Gaëlle Rouard, Mike Cooper, Nadah El Shazly, Σtella, Vicky Bisbiki. For more information, please visit www.syrosfilmfestival.org

In equestrian culture, Groundwork is comprised of exercises that mature a horse’s response to its rider’s cues and the environment. This program of landscape films from the 1960s through 1980s similarly demonstrates structural and formal methods used by artists to finely tune their perception of natural phenomena. In The Sky on Location, French cinematographer Babette Mangolte focuses her camera on seasonal light and its variegation of the American West’s colour palette.

A special program from some of the most exciting, disturbing and inspiring queer experimental short films screened at the 13th XPOSED International Queer Film Festival in May. The festival, which started in 2006 has been a passion project from Queer and Experimental film lovers since it’s inception. Now, it has put together a recap of the most discussed, desired and daring titles from this years program, including the four Lolly Award winners.

Unruly Archives is a program composed of emerging filmmakers whose works interrogate colonialism, cultural erasure, and historical and political truths that have been erased from the "traditional" filmic archive. Each of the works have some relation to the archive, both in the physical and political acts of documentation, be it in use of analog format or incorporation of source material-family photos, home videos, found footage.