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342 articles available in total starting from 17/10/2023. Last article published on 16/02/2026.

Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

Interview: Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

"You can almost smell nostalgia, but you cannot smell film — that's why the nature elements are the closest to how you experience nostalgia in real life"

The filmmaker talked to us about her personal relationship to her script, casting decisions, and how she chose to portray nostalgia in her debut feature  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: The Assistant

Review: The Assistant

Wilhelm and Anka Sasnal deliver an artsy take on Robert Walser's 1908 novel, using anachronistic elements to keep the viewer reflecting on the protagonist's plight  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

José Filipe Costa  • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

Interview: José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

“A lot of it was about the everyday life of fascism and the small things, not the big picture”

The Portuguese director spoke to us about relationships of power and how his new film has taken on fresh relevance today in light of unsettling political environments  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Bad Painter

Review: Bad Painter

German painter Albert Oehlen makes his first solo feature-length foray into film with a bizarre docufictional mockumentary interspersed with odd bits of body horror  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Back to the Family

Review: Back to the Family

Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas unravels the tensely wound dynamics of a rural family through the return of a young woman for her grandmother’s final days  

06/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: White Roses, Fall!

Review: White Roses, Fall!

Albertina Carri’s film about a lesbian porn director who sets off on a road trip with her actors possesses plenty of spirit, but its aimlessness and odd pacing choices drag it down  

06/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

Review: Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

José Filipe Costa presents an impressive meditation on the maintenance of the status quo through a fictionalisation of a period in pre-revolution Portuguese history  

06/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Picture Tree International hits the ground running at Berlin with Raptures and other exciting titles

Picture Tree International hits the ground running at Berlin with Raptures and other exciting titles

The Berlin-based sales agent is presenting the IFFR-premiered flick by Jon Blåhed in addition to several already commercially successful projects  

05/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | EFM

Review: Orenda

Review: Orenda

Spectres of lost faith, guilt and redemption hang over Pirjo Honkasalo’s contemplative new film, the first narrative feature from the Finnish director after more than ten years  

05/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Morlaix

Review: Morlaix

Jaime Rosales’ new film riffs on fate, romance and inevitability, musing on a love triangle laced with what-ifs  

04/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

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