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Savina Petkova


187 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2023. Last article published on 11/09/2025.

Review: Forastera

Review: Forastera

The feature debut by Lucía Aleñar Iglesias offers a rare, nuanced look at grief and growing up  

11/09 | Toronto 2025 | Discovery

Review: To the Victory!

Review: To the Victory!

Valentyn Vasyanovych reimagines the future of Ukraine, full of both bleakness and bravery  

08/09 | Toronto 2025 | Platform

Ildikó Enyedi • Director of Silent Friend

Interview: Ildikó Enyedi • Director of Silent Friend

“I wanted to show how quickly our gaze changes”

VENICE 2025: The Hungarian director gives us the low-down on her new feature, which centres on a ginkgo tree in three different timelines  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Gastón Solnicki • Director of The Souffleur

Interview: Gastón Solnicki • Director of The Souffleur

“I think one has to bet high, especially while one is young”

VENICE 2025: The A Little Love Package director talks about his new ode to Vienna and working with Willem Dafoe  

05/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Mark Jenkin • Director of Rose of Nevada

Interview: Mark Jenkin • Director of Rose of Nevada

“Every film is a ghost film”

VENICE 2025: The British director discusses his new movie, in which a lost fishing vessel takes two young men into the past in a coastal village in Cornwall  

05/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

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

Review: The Testament of Ann Lee

Review: The Testament of Ann Lee

VENICE 2025: Amanda Seyfried soars in Mona Fastvold’s musical reimagining of the life of the titular Shaker religious leader  

01/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: The Souffleur

Review: The Souffleur

VENICE 2025: Gastón Solnicki takes us on a tour of Vienna’s Intercontinental Hotel with Willem Dafoe as our guide  

01/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Review: Gorgonà

Review: Gorgonà

VENICE 2025: Evi Kalogiropoulou’s first feature is a stylish knockout of a queer western set in a dystopian Greece  

31/08 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Kukla • Director of Fantasy

Interview: Kukla • Director of Fantasy

“I’ve always thought of Fantasy as someone who brings with her a gentle kind of disruption”

The Slovenian director chats to us about her feature-length follow-up to her award-winning short Sisters and about revisiting her trio of girls  

19/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

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