Review: Who Is Still Alive

Review: Who Is Still Alive

VENICE 2025: Nicolas Wadimoff brings nine Palestinian refugees together to listen to stories about their previous lives in Gaza, lending a face to the despair of a people who are losing everything  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Giulio Bertelli • Director of AGON

Interview: Giulio Bertelli • Director of AGON

“I’m very interested in the elements hidden within each sport”

VENICE 2025: The Italian director unpicks his close-up study of three female athletes competing at an Olympic event  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: I Want Her Dead

Review: I Want Her Dead

VENICE 2025: Gianluca Matarrese continues to demonstrate his mastery of the conversation-centric documentary, turning his camera on his own family  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Waking Hours

Review: Waking Hours

VENICE 2025: Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini’s modest documentary stays in the darkness, but it makes its point very clearly  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

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Industry Reports

Produce – Co-Produce... - Italy unveils a €1 million annual fund to boost co-productions with Latin America - 01/09/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 01/09/2025
Italy unveils a €1 million annual fund to boost co-productions with Latin America
VENICE 2025: The initiative, freshly unveiled on the Lido, will also extend to Spain and Portugal

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Produce – Co-Produce... - Fondazione Prada launches €1.5 million film fund at Venice - 04/09/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 04/09/2025
Fondazione Prada launches €1.5 million film fund at Venice
VENICE 2025: The fund is aimed at supporting 10-12 features each year, including documentaries and animated works

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming - Producers and distributors push for earlier collaboration and smart audience strategies - 03/09/2025

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 03/09/2025
Producers and distributors push for earlier collaboration and smart audience strategies
VENICE 2025: Participants in the event organised by Europa Distribution described the session as “a rare opportunity for frank, in-person exchange”

Produce – Co-Produce... - Venice hosts a panel exploring Baltic-Italian co-production opportunities - 01/09/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 01/09/2025
Venice hosts a panel exploring Baltic-Italian co-production opportunities
VENICE 2025: The event was aimed at familiarising Italian producers with the financial and creative advantages of partnering with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - Eurimages sheds light on its awards, sponsorships and inclusion strategies at the Venice Production Bridge - 30/08/2025

Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – 30/08/2025
Eurimages sheds light on its awards, sponsorships and inclusion strategies at the Venice Production Bridge
VENICE 2025: The fund’s reps underscored that its value lies not only in the money it awards, but also in the visibility and credibility it grants to projects and institutions

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming - Netflix unveils guidelines for the use of generative AI in content production - 28/08/2025

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 28/08/2025
Netflix unveils guidelines for the use of generative AI in content production
The streaming platform’s stipulations are structured around four key areas: data use, creative output, talent and performance, and ethics and representation

Animation - Sarajevo offers a glimpse into the technicalities of Flow - 26/08/2025

Animation – 26/08/2025
Sarajevo offers a glimpse into the technicalities of Flow
Animators Konstantīns Višņevskis and Mārtiņš Upītis shared their experience of working on the highly successful, Oscar-winning feature by Gints Zilbalodis

Lucrecia Martel • Director of Landmarks

Interview: Lucrecia Martel • Director of Landmarks

“When you think of lands that are taken from indigenous people, you think of raw materials – but there is also the beauty itself that is stolen”

VENICE 2025: The Argentinian director discusses her first documentary film, which was 15 years in the making  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B Papadakis • Directors of Bearcave

Interview: Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B Papadakis • Directors of Bearcave

"The two protagonists represent the dualism of the people who live in those areas"

VENICE 2025: The pair of directors talk about their feature debut, which broaches topics such as friendship, bravery and the desire to escape  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Damien Hauser • Director of Memory of Princess Mumbi

Interview: Damien Hauser • Director of Memory of Princess Mumbi

"Compared to when I used it in the movie, the AI ​​has improved a lot and it's even a little scary"

VENICE 2025: The Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker whisks us off to the year 2093, on the trail of a director who has to make a documentary about a devastating war, if possible without using AI  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

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Episode 79: Living Large (Czech Republic/Slovakia/France) - 30/08/2025

30/08/2025
Episode 79: Living Large (Czech Republic/Slovakia/France)
The producers of the film by Kristina Dufková are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 78: Ghost Trail (France/Germany/Belgium) - 12/08/2025

12/08/2025
Episode 78: Ghost Trail (France/Germany/Belgium)
The producers of the film by Jonathan Millet are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 77: The Flats (France/Ireland/UK/Belgium) - 22/07/2025

22/07/2025
Episode 77: The Flats (France/Ireland/UK/Belgium)
The producers of the film by Alessandra Celesia are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 76: The Girl with the Needle (Denmark/Poland/Sweden) - 08/05/2025

08/05/2025
Episode 76: The Girl with the Needle (Denmark/Poland/Sweden)
The producers of the film by Magnus von Horn are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 75: Vermiglio (Italy/France/Belgium) - 25/03/2025

25/03/2025
Episode 75: Vermiglio (Italy/France/Belgium)
The producers of the film by Maura Delpero are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 74: Crossing (Sweden/ Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia) - 20/03/2025

20/03/2025
Episode 74: Crossing (Sweden/ Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia)
The producers of the film by Levan Akin are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 73: Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium) - 10/12/2024

10/12/2024
Episode 73: Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium)
The producers of the film by Gints Zilbalodis are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 72: Wishing on a Star (Italy/Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Croatia) - 28/11/2024

28/11/2024
Episode 72: Wishing on a Star (Italy/Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Croatia)
The producers of the film by Peter Kerekes are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

Interview: Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

"I try to tell the story of Lebanon today and its ups and downs through the story of a couple with two different worldviews"

VENICE 2025: The Lebanese director talks to us about his debut fiction feature, a love story set against the backdrop of a deeply scarred country, Lebanon  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: The Voice of Hind Rajab

Review: The Voice of Hind Rajab

VENICE 2025: Kaouther Ben Hania’s powerful docudrama integrates the real emergency call from the six-year-old girl killed by the IDF with dramatised scenes  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

The BFI London Film Festival lifts the lid on the titles for its 69th edition

The BFI London Film Festival lifts the lid on the titles for its 69th edition

The British gathering will comprise 247 works from 79 countries, opening with Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and closing with Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero  

04/09 | London 2025

Review: AGON

Review: AGON

VENICE 2025: Giulio Bertelli’s atmospheric debut is structured around three parallel portraits of sportswomen embodying different shades of fragility and strength  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

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Venice 2025 – Photogalleries - 27/08/2025

27/08/2025
Venice 2025 – Photogalleries
The global film community is back on the Lido for the 82nd Venice Film Festival, unspooling from 27 August-6 September. Discover the festival highlights and the international stars walking the red carpet in our exclusive photo galleries

Cannes 2025 – Photogalleries - 13/05/2025

13/05/2025
Cannes 2025 – Photogalleries
The international film industry is gathering again on the Croisette for a packed edition of the Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film, unspooling from 13-24 May. Discover the festival highlights in our exclusive photo galleries

Berlinale 2025 – Photogalleries - 13/02/2025

13/02/2025
Berlinale 2025 – Photogalleries
The Berlin International Film Festival returns for its 75th edition, the first under the direction of Tricia Tuttle, from 13-23 February. Check out the festival highlights in our exclusive photogalleries

San Sebastian 2024 – Photogalleries - 23/09/2024

23/09/2024
San Sebastian 2024 – Photogalleries
The San Sebastián International Film Festival cements its position on the global festival circuit with its 72st edition, which is unspooling from 20-28 September. Check out our exclusive photo galleries

Venice 2024 – Photogalleries - 27/08/2024

27/08/2024
Venice 2024 – Photogalleries
After the media storm triggered by last year's SAG-AFTRA strike, the global film community is back on the Lido for the 81st Venice Film Festival, unspooling from 28 August-7 September. Discover the festival highlights and the international stars walking the red carpet in our exclusive photo galleries

Cannes 2024 – Photogalleries - 14/05/2024

14/05/2024
Cannes 2024 – Photogalleries
The international film industry is gathering again on the Croisette for a packed edition of the Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film, unspooling from 14-25 May. Discover the festival highlights in our exclusive photo galleries

Berlinale 2024 – Photogalleries - 15/02/2024

15/02/2024
Berlinale 2024 – Photogalleries
The Berlin International Film Festival returns for its 74th edition, the last under the direction of Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, from 15-25 February. Check out the festival highlights in our exclusive photogalleries

San Sebastián 2023 – Photogalleries - 25/09/2023

25/09/2023
San Sebastián 2023 – Photogalleries
The San Sebastián International Film Festival cements its position on the global festival circuit with its 71st edition, which is unspooling from 22-30 September. Check out our exclusive photo galleries

Fondazione Prada launches €1.5 million film fund at Venice

Fondazione Prada launches €1.5 million film fund at Venice

VENICE 2025: The fund is aimed at supporting 10-12 features each year, including documentaries and animated works  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Venice Production Bridge

Review: Duse

Review: Duse

VENICE 2025: Pietro Marcello delivers an unconventional biopic on the iconic Italian theatre actress Eleonora Duse who’s sensitively played by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: Tired of Killing

Review: Tired of Killing

VENICE 2025: With plenty of concessions to genre cinema, Daniele Vicari tells the story of the son of a Calabrian mafia boss in the 1970s who rebels against his destiny  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Venezia Spotlight

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Reviews

The Voice of Hind Rajab - by Kaouther Ben Hania

The Voice of Hind Rajab
by Kaouther Ben Hania
VENICE 2025: Kaouther Ben Hania’s powerful docudrama integrates the real emergency call from the six-year-old girl killed by the IDF with dramatised scenes

The Stranger - by François Ozon

The Stranger
by François Ozon
VENICE 2025: François Ozon achieves perfection with a sublime adaptation of Albert Camus' legendary novel that is captivating, refined, faithful and yet highly personal

Duse - by Pietro Marcello

Duse
by Pietro Marcello
VENICE 2025: Pietro Marcello delivers an unconventional biopic on the iconic Italian theatre actress Eleonora Duse who’s sensitively played by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

A Year of School - by Laura Samani

A Year of School
by Laura Samani
VENICE 2025: Laura Samani’s second film is a female coming-of-age story that betrays the revolutionary spirit of the character in the novel on which it is based

AGON - by Giulio Bertelli

AGON
by Giulio Bertelli
VENICE 2025: Giulio Bertelli’s atmospheric debut is structured around three parallel portraits of sportswomen embodying different shades of fragility and strength

Cotton Queen - by Suzannah Mirghani

Cotton Queen
by Suzannah Mirghani
VENICE 2025: In spite of its title, Suzannah Mirghani’s impressive debut, following a Sudanese girl assessing her future on a plantation, avoids any fluff

Tired of Killing - by Daniele Vicari

Tired of Killing
by Daniele Vicari
VENICE 2025: With plenty of concessions to genre cinema, Daniele Vicari tells the story of the son of a Calabrian mafia boss in the 1970s who rebels against his destiny

The Ivy - by Ana Cristina Barragán

The Ivy
by Ana Cristina Barragán
VENICE 2025: Ana Cristina Barragán’s intimate portrait of healing is an emotionally raw story hinging on the relationship between a 30-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy

Final Cut in Venice announces the winners of its 13th edition

Final Cut in Venice announces the winners of its 13th edition

VENICE 2025: The main victors were Sara Ishaq’s The Station and Hugo Salvaterra’s My Semba, which scooped five and four prizes, respectively  

03/09 | Venice 2025 | Venice Production Bridge/Awards

Series review: Etty

Series review: Etty

VENICE 2025: Hagai Levi delivers a poignant and captivating series about the forging of an unusual woman’s psyche and her resilience in the face of hatred  

03/09 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Review: The Ivy

Review: The Ivy

VENICE 2025: Ana Cristina Barragán’s intimate portrait of healing is an emotionally raw story hinging on the relationship between a 30-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy  

03/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

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Interviews

François Ozon • Director of The Stranger

François Ozon • Director of The Stranger
VENICE 2025: The French filmmaker discusses his adaptation of Albert Camus's famous novel, how he approached the opacity of the main character and contextualised the colonial era

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of Mother

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of Mother
VENICE 2025: We met up with the Macedonian-born, Belgian-based filmmaker to talk about her new film, an anti-biopic of Mother Teresa

Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work

Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work
VENICE 2025: Freedom doesn’t come cheap in the French director’s new feature, but it’s still worth all the trouble

Pascal Diot • Head, Venice Production Bridge

Pascal Diot • Head, Venice Production Bridge
The seasoned industry figure unpacks this year’s Lido-based offering for producers and creative professionals, unspooling from 28 August-3 September

Giulio Bertelli • Director of AGON

Giulio Bertelli • Director of AGON
VENICE 2025: The Italian director unpicks his close-up study of three female athletes competing at an Olympic event

Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B Papadakis • Directors of Bearcave

Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B Papadakis • Directors of Bearcave
VENICE 2025: The pair of directors talk about their feature debut, which broaches topics such as friendship, bravery and the desire to escape

Damien Hauser • Director of Memory of Princess Mumbi

Damien Hauser • Director of Memory of Princess Mumbi
VENICE 2025: The Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker whisks us off to the year 2093, on the trail of a director who has to make a documentary about a devastating war, if possible without using AI

Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World
VENICE 2025: The Lebanese director talks to us about his debut fiction feature, a love story set against the backdrop of a deeply scarred country, Lebanon

Maryam Touzani • Director of Calle Málaga

Interview: Maryam Touzani • Director of Calle Málaga

“There was a richness that I felt growing up, and I wanted to pay tribute to this community”

VENICE 2025: The director of The Blue Caftan speaks about bringing to the screen the unique beauty and complexity of her home city of Tangier  

03/09 | Venice 2025 | Venezia Spotlight

Review: Cotton Queen

Review: Cotton Queen

VENICE 2025: In spite of its title, Suzannah Mirghani’s impressive debut, following a Sudanese girl assessing her future on a plantation, avoids any fluff  

03/09 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

The Gåsebäck Film Festival launches industry market Hel’s Kitchen

The Gåsebäck Film Festival launches industry market Hel’s Kitchen

The market comes on the heels of Helsingborg’s initiative, in collaboration with Film i Skåne, to boost filming in the city; the festival has also announced its Audience Awards  

03/09 | Festivals | Awards | Sweden

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Elisa - by Leonardo Di Costanzo

Elisa
by Leonardo Di Costanzo
Venice 2025 - Competition
Italian release September 5

Un film fatto per Bene - by Franco Maresco

Un film fatto per Bene
by Franco Maresco
Venice 2025 - Competition
Italian release September 5

Duse - by Pietro Marcello

Duse
by Pietro Marcello
Venice 2025 - Competition

The Stranger - by François Ozon

The Stranger
by François Ozon
Venice 2025 - Competition

Memory of Princess Mumbi - by Damien Hauser

Memory of Princess Mumbi
by Damien Hauser
Venice 2025 - Giornate degli Autori

Strange River - by Jaume Claret Muxart

Strange River
by Jaume Claret Muxart
Venice 2025 - Orizzonti

AGON - by Giulio Bertelli

AGON
by Giulio Bertelli
Venice 2025 - International Film Critics’ Week

A Year of School - by Laura Samani

A Year of School
by Laura Samani
Venice 2025 - Orizzonti

Producers and distributors push for earlier collaboration and smart audience strategies

Producers and distributors push for earlier collaboration and smart audience strategies

VENICE 2025: Participants in the event organised by Europa Distribution described the session as “a rare opportunity for frank, in-person exchange”  

03/09 | Venice 2025 | Venice Production Bridge

Review: Bearcave

Review: Bearcave

VENICE 2025: Stergios Dinopoulos and Krysianna B Papadakis explore society’s expectations of two young female best friends in the Greek countryside  

03/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Ivan Ramljak’s Peacemaker triumphs at the 23rd Liburnia Film Festival

Ivan Ramljak’s Peacemaker triumphs at the 23rd Liburnia Film Festival

The winning documentary was praised by the jury as “a moral act of resistance to oblivion” that restores dignity and voice to a man many sought to silence  

03/09 | Festivals | Awards | Croatia

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Reviews

Made in EU - by Stephan Komandarev

Made in EU
by Stephan Komandarev
VENICE 2025: Stephan Komandarev delivers another bleak parable set in the Bulgarian provinces, this time rooted in the exploitation of cheap labour on the fringes of the European single market

Memory of Princess Mumbi - by Damien Hauser

Memory of Princess Mumbi
by Damien Hauser
VENICE 2025: Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser creates a film full of inventiveness, a mix between sci-fi, romance and mockumentary that reflects on the use of AI in cinema in a futuristic Africa

Bearcave - by Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B. Papadakis

Bearcave
by Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B. Papadakis
VENICE 2025: Stergios Dinopoulos and Krysianna B Papadakis explore society’s expectations of two young female best friends in the Greek countryside

Lost Land - by Akio Fujimoto

Lost Land
by Akio Fujimoto
VENICE 2025: Japanese director Akio Fujimoto’s powerful second feature follows two displaced Rohingya children as they attempt to flee Bangladesh for Malaysia

A Sad and Beautiful World - by Cyril Aris

A Sad and Beautiful World
by Cyril Aris
VENICE 2025: In his feature-length fiction debut, Cyril Aris tells a love story unfolding in parallel with the joys and deep sorrows of a continually changing Lebanon

Industry Reports

Produce – Co-Produce... – 04/09/2025

Fondazione Prada launches €1.5 million film fund at Venice

VENICE 2025: The fund is aimed at supporting 10-12 features each year, including documentaries and animated works

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 03/09/2025

Producers and distributors push for earlier collaboration and smart audience strategies

VENICE 2025: Participants in the event organised by Europa Distribution described the session as “a rare opportunity for frank, in-person exchange”

Produce – Co-Produce... – 01/09/2025

Italy unveils a €1 million annual fund to boost co-productions with Latin America

VENICE 2025: The initiative, freshly unveiled on the Lido, will also extend to Spain and Portugal

Produce – Co-Produce... – 01/09/2025

Venice hosts a panel exploring Baltic-Italian co-production opportunities

VENICE 2025: The event was aimed at familiarising Italian producers with the financial and creative advantages of partnering with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

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