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I start the day with Future Lasts Forever, a Turkish feature following Sumru, a woman who travels to Anatolian city Diyarbakir to make sound recordings of traditional elegies.
There is something wonderful about walking through a city at 8.45am on a Saturday on your way to a 9.15am screening, with all the hope that you'll discover a gem
Friday starts in a rustic mode, with two very different set films in the countryside.
Back in the 'dam and ready for some mind-bending cinema, fueled by Vietnamese street food and coffee caught between venues. This year we are promised a leaner selection of films, following last year's occasionally scattershot programme quality.
I didn't manage as much sleep as I'd hoped, due to neighbours in my guesthouse inexplicably pounding up and down the creaky floors from 5am to 7am.
It turns out that I wouldn't have been able to get into the ceilidh last night anyway, as no one was leaving since the knees up was being led by none other than Sean Connery. Sounds rubbish.
The morning starts off bright and early with Obselidia, a romance (of sorts) between a librarian, who's obsessed with the past who is compiling an Encyclopedia of Obsolete Things, and one of his interviewees, a projectionist at the local LA silent movie theatre.
Today was the Organising Accessible Screenings course, devised in partnership with Shape and funded by Skillset and Scottish Screen, with support from Edinburgh International Film Festival.
I am in Colombia at the invitation of Babilla Cine who are one of the three main independent distributors in Colombia. Their most recent release is Match Point which came out last week and so far has achieved around 70,000 admissions and made around 400 million pesos at the box office which is roughly 160,000 dollars.
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