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348 articles available in total starting from 21/03/2017. Last article published on 15/10/2025.

The Cairo International Film Festival readies its 46th edition

The Cairo International Film Festival readies its 46th edition

The oldest film gathering in the MENA region will welcome European productions and co-productions, and present Hungary’s Ildikó Enyedi with the Career Achievement Award  

15/10 | Cairo 2025

Bartek Pulcyn  • Artistic director, Warsaw Film Festival

Interview: Bartek Pulcyn • Artistic director, Warsaw Film Festival

“The role of our festival is to shed light on what is valuable”

Warsaw’s new artistic director discusses the changes he has introduced to the structure of the event, unspooling from 10-19 October  

10/10 | Warsaw 2025

Review: Exile

Review: Exile

Mehdi Hmili's film is an ambient, slow-burning vengeance flick that becomes, inadvertently perhaps, a comment on a masculinity crisis  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Out of Competition

Kamal Aljafari • Director of With Hasan in Gaza

Interview: Kamal Aljafari • Director of With Hasan in Gaza

“As strange as it might sound, I still don’t remember having shot all this material”

The Palestinian director explains the peculiar circumstances which led to him turning some lost tapes of life in Gaza in the early 2000s into a film  

07/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

The Sickness of Yerevan and Wolfgang share Yerevan's GAIFF Pro Grand Prix

The Sickness of Yerevan and Wolfgang share Yerevan's GAIFF Pro Grand Prix

Four more projects, namely UXXR – Is There Sex After the USSR?, American Dream: The Return of Captain Kabonga, In The Coffee Grounds and Process were given Special Mentions  

28/07 | Golden Apricot 2025 | GAIFF Pro

Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

Interview: Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

“The question of what constitutes the self is at the root of everything I make”

The director and artist of Armenian roots breaks down the origins of her film and explains how her powerful images and concepts came into being  

23/07 | Golden Apricot 2025

Fiume o morte! emerges triumphant at the 22nd Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Fiume o morte! emerges triumphant at the 22nd Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Holy Electricity and Songs of Slow Burning Earth were also victorious at the Armenia-based film event  

23/07 | Golden Apricot 2025 | Awards

Varvara Hovhannisyan • Head of International Department, Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Interview: Varvara Hovhannisyan • Head of International Department, Golden Apricot International Film Festival

“For several years, our main goal has been to make the festival a platform for regional cinema – and we’re getting there”

Our discussion with the International Department head focused on the Armenian festival’s objectives, and how it has stimulated film production in the country and the region  

18/07 | Golden Apricot 2025

Review: Loss of Balance

Review: Loss of Balance

Korek Bojanowski’s debut feature is a shrewd study of manipulation and abuse of power in the most vulnerable of spaces – the acting school  

04/07 | Films | Reviews | Poland

BNP Paribas New Horizons gears up for its 25th edition

BNP Paribas New Horizons gears up for its 25th edition

The jubilee edition of the Wrocław-based event will offer 272 films, including 129 Polish premieres; the Cannes-awarded The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho opens proceedings  

03/07 | New Horizons 2025

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