Phillip Bergson

Writing about Films and Festivals.

Film Critic, UK,Invited Member of The UK Critics' Circle

FIPRESCI abd the European Film Academy.

Visiting Lecturer, Prague Film School.

Winner of the "Student Journalist of the Year" competition in the UK weekly New Statesman, as a Classics Scholar Phillip Bergson then founded the Oxford Film Festival and, on graduating, was selected by "The Sunday Times" as a 'New Critic' and in the same week began broadcasting on film for many BBC Radio programmes. A contributor to the "Times Literary Supplement", "TES",The Spectator,film critic on "The Sunday Standard", "Screen International",Variety, "Film Bulletin", "Film a Doba" inter alia, and on the FilmFestJOURNAL in Berlin and Screen Dailies at Cannes,he also worked for the "European Script Fund", has scripted shorts and features (that have been produced and released) and, fluent in eight-and-a-half languages, currently programmes and advises several international film festivals and is.Casting Consultant on several international features. At the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, in his native Yorkshire, he created the "Eurovisions" project, to promote classic and contemporary European cinema,which was inaugurated at the Cine Lumiere in London by His Excellency the President of Iceland.

Presenter and Programmer,London Turkish Film Week, December 2018

Co=programmer, 2nd London Turkish Film Week, April 2019

Artistic Director, 3rd London Turkish Film Week, planned for 1-7 June 2020.

As a FIPRESCI Jury Member

and a member of International Juries at

Thessaloniki, Europa Cinema (Rimini), Munich Documentary, Manaki Brothers,Cine Jove (Valencia),Chicago, TIFF-ODA, SOFIA...

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Film Career of Korea

Nov 01, 2019 at 09:37 PM

The 14th London Korean Film Festival opens tonight as a celebration marking the centenary of film-making in Korea in the aptly-chosen historic Regent Street Cinema, wthere the freres Lumiere first...

"Raindance means Raindance"

Sep 05, 2019 at 04:54 PM

If it's Tuesday, it must be Raindance, or at least if the 22nd August then a double helping of events to launch and promote the 2019 edition of the most independent, idiosyncratic and...

Marlene sings the Blue

Jun 08, 2019 at 01:46 PM

No, they certainly do not make them like this anymore, nor like Her. A very willkommen benefit of the two--month season of cinema marking the centenary of the Weimar Republic at the BFI Southbank...

Viva Italia! at Ciné Lumiere in London

Mar 01, 2019 at 12:19 PM

With a sold-out curtain-raising preview of LORO, Paolo Sorrentino's latest Felliniesque politico-social vaudeville the latest Cinema Made in Italy launched its sunniest showcase of new Italian...

Talking Turkey in London

Dec 13, 2018 at 08:14 PM

Opening lunch in SOFRA off Oxford Street film director Mustafa Karadeniz on right Jean-Marc Barr Turkish Coffee Phillip Bergson with director of Yunus Emre Institute London Dr Mehmet Karakus,...

Mannheim - Heidelberg: Meetings with Remarkable Films

Nov 26, 2018 at 01:05 PM

With its 67th edition the International Film Festival, now running in both Mannheim and Heidelberg, adjacent antique and bustling cities south of Frankfurt on Germany's celebrated...

Canada can, and does still- with style!

Oct 29, 2018 at 02:13 PM

For its seventh annual Quebec Lecture in London, the Francophone Delegation filled the superb surrounds of the Royal Geographical Society, which has nestled for well over a century in one of the...

3 Tage in Regent Strasse

Sep 23, 2018 at 09:35 PM

Today would have been the 80th birthday of Austrian screen legend Romy Schneider so the semi-factual fictive feature reconstructon of her famous interview for Germany's Stern magazine, 3 Tage in...

Midsummer Nights' Dreams in Spain

Sep 17, 2018 at 11:41 AM

No rain in Spain A land of movies and famed for its film festivals (encouraged by Franco in the past to entertain and perhaps district his citizens) Spain seemed recently to have come off the boil...

Pierfull Pleasure in the Best British Comedy in years

Sep 14, 2018 at 12:45 PM

Unquestionably the funniest film I saw at the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Eaten by Lions (99 minutes) had sold-out world premiere screenings, selected in the British Cinema strand....