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337 articles available in total starting from 17/10/2023. Last article published on 04/02/2026.

Review: Projecto Global

Review: Projecto Global

Revolution is a marathon, not a sprint, in Ivo M Ferreira’s stylish, fictionalised history of a group of militants in 1980s Portugal  

04/02 | IFFR 2026 | Big Screen Competition

Review: The Arab

Review: The Arab

Malek Bensmail makes his feature-length fiction debut with a parallel tale of Camus’ The Stranger, which tells the story from the perspective of the slain man’s brother  

03/02 | IFFR 2026 | Big Screen Competition

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg awards €5.8 million to 20 projects in progress

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg awards €5.8 million to 20 projects in progress

The funded projects include works by Alexandre Koberidze, Kamal Aljafari, Julia von Heinz, Ina Weisse and Sebastian Schipper  

29/01 | Production | Funding | Germany

Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić • Directors of To Hold a Mountain

Interview: Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić • Directors of To Hold a Mountain

“We thought this place was calling out for a film, but we knew from the very first moment that it wouldn’t be an activist film”

The two directors trace the moving story of a mother and daughter on the Montenegrin mountain of Sinjajevina, where the political and the intimate are innately intertwined  

29/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Andrius Blaževičius • Director of How to Divorce During the War

Interview: Andrius Blaževičius • Director of How to Divorce During the War

“I wanted to create space for the viewer to think about what is happening and about what they would have done in this situation”

The writer-director mulls creative collaborations and finding the appropriate distance from which to reflect on the war in Ukraine – through a sharp Lithuanian lens  

28/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Visar Morina • Director of Shame and Money

Interview: Visar Morina • Director of Shame and Money

“If everything becomes exchanged in terms of money, the first thing that dies will be what we call being human”

The Kosovo-born director breaks down his third feature, which sees an older couple from the countryside forced to keep pace in an uber-commodified urban present  

27/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Sakaris Stórá • Director of The Last Paradise on Earth

Interview: Sakaris Stórá • Director of The Last Paradise on Earth

“In Faroese, we have a word for ‘longing for the bigger world’ that I don’t think other languages have”

We sat down with the filmmaker to discuss his newest work amidst the landscape of a burgeoning Faroese film culture and industry  

27/01 | Tromsø 2026

Review: How to Divorce During the War

Review: How to Divorce During the War

In his third feature, Andrius Blaževičius probes performativity and conjugal relations with distance and dark humour as the war in Ukraine rages on  

27/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Sámi vs. Sámi

Review: Sámi vs. Sámi

Ellen-Astri Lundby tracks a vital multi-year court case in which two indigenous communities were pitted against each other, each fighting for its rights  

27/01 | Tromsø 2026

Review: Hold Onto Me

Review: Hold Onto Me

Myrsini Aristidou writes, directs and edits her debut feature, a Cyprus-set coming-of-age tale about a girl and her estranged father  

27/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

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