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1929 articles available in total starting from 29/11/2016. Last article published on 11/02/2026.

Barbara Albert  • Director

Interview: Barbara Albert • Director

“We talk a lot about assimilation and seem to forget about diversity”

TORONTO 2017: Acclaimed Austrian director Barbara Albert explained her fifth feature, Mademoiselle Paradis, to Cineuropa San Sebastian 2017 - Competition  

14/09/2017 | Toronto 2017 | Platform

Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir  • Director

Interview: Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir • Director

“I didn't want to compromise the main character’s vision”

TORONTO 2017: Icelandic writer-director Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir talked to us to break down her feature debut, The Swan, screening in Discovery  

14/09/2017

Govinda Van Maele  • Director

Interview: Govinda Van Maele • Director

“Making a film in Luxembourg forces you to face an aesthetic conundrum”

TORONTO 2017: Cineuropa sat down with Govinda Van Maele to discuss the story behind his debut feature, Gutland, which has screened in the Discovery section  

14/09/2017

The Swan: A coming-of-age fable with hints of magical realism

The Swan: A coming-of-age fable with hints of magical realism

TORONTO 2017: Adapting the acclaimed novel of the same name, debutant Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir creates a fragile story of maturity and self-exploration set in the natural wilderness of Iceland  

13/09/2017 | Toronto 2017 | Discovery

Review: Gutland

Review: Gutland

TORONTO 2017: Debutant Luxembourgian director Govinda Van Maele raises the question of European intolerance to outsiders, set in a landscape teetering between reality and fiction  

13/09/2017 | Toronto 2017 | Discovery

The Journey: Exploring the reality behind terrorism

The Journey: Exploring the reality behind terrorism

TORONTO 2017: With his new film, Mohamed Al-Daradji hasn’t aimed to make another movie that rails against terrorism, but rather explores what drives a woman down that path  

13/09/2017 | Toronto 2017 | Contemporary World Cinema

Boudewijn Koole  • Director

Interview: Boudewijn Koole • Director

“The intimacy within family relationships is an endlessly fascinating form of love”

We chatted to Boudewijn Koole, whose third feature, Disappearance, has just had its international premiere in Contemporary World Cinema  

13/09/2017 | Toronto 2017 | Contemporary World Cinema

Disappearance: What’s left behind

Disappearance: What’s left behind

Dutch director Boudewijn Koole delivers a bleak, slow-burning drama on the effects of loss that really stirs the emotions  

13/09/2017 | Toronto 2017 | Contemporary World Cinema

Neïl Beloufa  • Director

Interview: Neïl Beloufa • Director

“Arts have the potential to transform society”

TORONTO 2017: Visual artist Neïl Beloufa picks apart Western prejudice in his second feature, Occidental, which has had its North American premiere in the Wavelengths section  

12/09/2017

Occidental: Dismantling Western prejudices

Occidental: Dismantling Western prejudices

TORONTO 2017: The sophomore fiction feature by French artist Neïl Beloufa is a stylised critique of the fears and prejudices promoted by the so-called progressive “Western world”  

12/09/2017 | Toronto 2017 | Wavelengths

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