A wonderfully operatic look at one of the world’s oldest sporting events, a horse race which is held twice a year in a medieval square at the heart of the Tuscan town of Siena.

The banned Iranian director films while driving a cab. Where is the line between drama and reality?

This docudrama shines light on a forgotten corner of World War I. It also asks questions about the process of "making" History.

The film adaptation of Emma Donoghue's 2010 novel is only partly successful.

A thoughtful and revealing portrait of a woman of influence.

Emotionally fraught, but powerful Australian drama.

Brooklyn hits many different notes in the scale of emotions and it hits them perfectly, confidently. An excellent choice for the festival’s opening gala screening.

An immersive biography of the great British artist.

Two documentaries about the rarified and demanding world of magazine publishing provide useful tips for Geist.

An understated film which shows yet another side of Iranian cinema.

Albert Maysles last film is an ode to lives in transit and to crossing America by train.

Vengeful spirits, garbage dumps, people-shaped stains and a dilapidated swimming pool—this queer coming-of-age love story has it all.

Leannej and My Name is Scot profile three Bulgarian artists and find a terrifying statue of King Samuel in this final edition of Off Site: Artists' Balkan Expedition.

Leannej and My Name is Scot encounter poorly-proportioned statues, pirate ships and chanting Turks in Macedonia.

VQFF's Opening Gala film celebrates the most simultaneously disgusting and visceral bits of the human experience: bodily functions, sodomy and death.

All the action from the first day at the festival in the woods.

With two days of extreme heat and sizzling tunes, the Pacific Northwest festival comes to a close. Turns out anything can be folk music.

Leannej and My Name is Scot find quail eggs, barking puppies and homemade wine at a Bulgarian market in this week's installment of "Off Site: Artists' Balkan Expedition."

More heat and many bands from rock to bluegrass to hip hop.

Leannej and My Name is Scot travel to Borisova Gradina Park, Mount Vitosha and an antiquated amusement park in this first installment of their Balkan artists' expedition.

Leannej and My Name is Scot meet Petko Dourmana, Bulgarian artist and social activist, and visit a beach town on the coast of the Black Sea.

On a wooded farm near Portland there is a very different kind of folk festival.

Geist 97 will feature the first print issue of The Syrup Trap, Canada's favourite humour magazine!

Jane Munro, Geist contributor, has won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize!

Iris Apfel is a nonagenarian fashion icon living in New York City, whose life is celebrated in the last film from the legendary Alfred Maysles.

An experiment in form and content, loosely based on the hit to pass car race.

Rolli, Geist contributor, has been longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award!