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Jan Lumholdt


320 articles available in total starting from 15/03/2018. Last article published on 06/09/2025.

Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

Interview: Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

“It may play out 100 years ago, but it says a lot about our current times”

VENICE 2025: The Italian director discusses how he intended to pay tribute to one of his country’s most legendary and highly celebrated actresses from the turn of the last century  

06/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

Interview: Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

“Just as people know the name Anne Frank, they should know the name Hind Rajab”

VENICE 2025: After her lengthy standing ovation, the Tunisian director talks to us about her one-room-shot reconstruction of the events surrounding the titular girl’s death  

06/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Jim Jarmusch • Director of Father Mother Sister Brother

Interview: Jim Jarmusch • Director of Father Mother Sister Brother

“I’m very intuitive in what I do, not analytical”

VENICE 2025: The US director shares some thoughts on his stories, his work and his love for cinema, veering off at times into some minute detail  

05/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

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

Anders Thomas Jensen  • Director of The Last Viking

Interview: Anders Thomas Jensen • Director of The Last Viking

“I’m the only Danish director making films with Mads Mikkelsen who won’t get Oscar-nominated”

VENICE 2025: The filmmaker explains how, for his new feature, he tried to return to some basics in his storytelling  

02/09 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth  • Directors of Broken English

Interview: Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth • Directors of Broken English

“We sat down with Marianne and told her that when we work on something, we don’t know what it’s going to be”

VENICE 2025: The directorial duo discuss their film about British cultural icon Marianne Faithfull and how they wanted to avoid turning it into an obituary  

02/09 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

László Nemes • Director of Orphan

Interview: László Nemes • Director of Orphan

“This backstory has haunted my family’s lives ever since it actually happened”

VENICE 2025: The Hungarian director found the main story and protagonist for his new film in his own family, but simultaneously drew on his own experiences in the 1980s  

31/08 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: The Last Viking

Review: The Last Viking

VENICE 2025: Anders Thomas Jensen signs a grand piece of darkly bizarre, jovially humanistic Danish auteur cinema  

31/08 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Review: Broken English

Review: Broken English

VENICE 2025: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have masterminded an embellished portrait of, and by, the late Marianne Faithfull  

30/08 | Venice 2025 | Out of competition

Tereza Nvotová • Director of Father

Interview: Tereza Nvotová • Director of Father

“What got me intrigued, even obsessed, was that moment when everything turns and you’re dropped into a parallel universe”

VENICE 2025: The Slovak director takes on a macabre subject, following a decent man and father into a spiral of horror, after a memory lapse changes his and others’ lives  

29/08 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

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