Another FIMAV Review

Source: Downbeat.

Apart from two years off during the pandemic and a gap year after its 25th anniversary, FIMAV has held fast to its high and adventurous ideals and gone the distance. This year’s festival program, which ran May 18–21, was a cut above the usual artistic standard, but it went down with a certain wistful end-of-an-era atmosphere: This was officially the last hurrah for the doggedly committed founding director Michelle Levasseur, who recently announced his retirement.