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1972 articles available in total starting from 01/03/2007. Last article published on 20/11/2025.

Review: The Pupil

Review: The Pupil

Playing close attention to nuance, Karin Junger’s third feature film carefully conveys the complex emotional and social repercussions of child sexual abuse  

20/11 | Lecce 2025

Review: Pheasant Island

Review: Pheasant Island

Set on Pheasant Island, Basque director Asier Urbieta’s feature film debut poses thought-provoking questions and shines a light on an underreported socio-geographical reality  

19/11 | Films | Reviews | Spain/France

Loris Lai • Director of How Kids Roll

Interview: Loris Lai • Director of How Kids Roll

“Children are the real victims of war, because they don’t make any decisions”

The director chatted to us about his movie set in Gaza during the second uprising in 2003, which is toplined by a Palestinian and an Israeli boy who are united by their love of surfing  

17/11 | /Italy/Belgium

Loris G Nese • Director of A Near Thing

Interview: Loris G Nese • Director of A Near Thing

“I looked for alternative forms to express the impossibility of depicting the feelings and paths I’d experienced”

The Italian director discusses his documentary, in which he looks to reconstruct the memories he doesn’t have of his father, who was killed in a feud when the former was only 4 years old  

17/11 | /Italy

The cracks in love, family and identity start to show at the Lecce European Film Festival

The cracks in love, family and identity start to show at the Lecce European Film Festival

Everything is ready for the 26th edition of the festival, running from 15-22 November, with ten films in competition, documentaries, and honourees Lars Von Trier and Saverio Costanzo  

14/11 | Lecce 2025

Andrei Epure • Director of Don’t Let Me Die

Interview: Andrei Epure • Director of Don’t Let Me Die

“I wanted to make a visual testimony to somehow archive a life that passed by in anonymity and indifference”

The Romanian director talks about his first feature, which, by blending reality, dreams, comedy and horror, reflects on the traces that people leave behind when they die  

12/11 | /Romania/Bulgaria/France

Afterwar crowned Best Film at the Euro Balkan Film Festival in Rome

Afterwar crowned Best Film at the Euro Balkan Film Festival in Rome

Birgitte Stærmose’s movie scooped the biggest prize of the festival while Teona Strugar Mitevska won Best Director for Mother and the Cineuropa Prize went to Dwelling Among the Gods  

07/11 | Euro Balkan Film Festival 2025 | Awards

Review: Good Boy

Review: Good Boy

Jan Komasa’s new movie is a dark, high-impact thriller on the themes of re-education and the family unit as a protective but also imprisoning force, starring Stephen Graham and Anson Boon  

28/10 | Rome 2025

Left-Handed Girl wins Best Film at the Rome Film Fest

Left-Handed Girl wins Best Film at the Rome Film Fest

Taiwanese filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou wins the most important award of the 20th edition, the Jury Grand Prix goes to Nino, and Best Actor Awards to Jasmine Trinca and Anson Boon  

27/10 | Rome 2025 | Awards

Review: Residence Hammamet - My Mother’s Maktub

Review: Residence Hammamet - My Mother’s Maktub

Salvatore Allocca delivers an affectionate documentary about his mother, who has emigrated to Tunisia, and the community of Italian retirees who move abroad where the cost of living is lower  

24/10 | Rome 2025

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