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Camillo De Marco


3684 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 27/08/2025.

Collardey explores rural world in L’apprenti

Samuel Collardey’s L’apprenti (“The Apprentice”) combines documentary and fiction to tell the story of 15-year-old protagonist Mathieu. The latter is a student in an agricultural institute and is...  

03/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Critics’ Week/France

Haile Gerima returns to the past to look to the future

African film has for some time been all but excluded from selections and above all from prize lists at most international festivals. Selected in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Haile...  

02/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Ethiopia-Germany-France

Bechis explores land of dispossessed in Birdwatchers

"We just want a chance to survive". Eliane Juca da Silva didn’t hold back the tears before journalists who had just applauded Marco Bechis’s film Birdwatchers. Eliane stars in the film and belongs...  

01/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Italy

Mograbi’s musical documentary breaks the silence

Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi’s documentary, Z32, is a sophisticated and collaborative work, produced by France’s Les Films d'Ici with backing from the CNC. After making Avenge But One of My Eyes...  

31/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Horizons | Israel-France

Nostalgia and psychological horror in Avati’s Giovanna’s Father

Love and friendship are the "background noise" (in the director’s own words) to the films of Pupi Avati, who turns 70 in three months. On the Lido, the director presents Giovanna’s Father, which...  

31/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition | Italy

Ferzan Ozpetek’s destructive love

The first Italian film to screen in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Ferzan Ozpetek’s A Perfect Day – adapted from Melania Mazzucco’s eponymous novel – is pure tragedy. An intense love...  

30/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Italy

Piracy battle starts in Venice

The battle against digital piracy starts in Italy in October, with the setting up of a technical roundtable (unveiled at Cannes), organised by the under-secretary of Council President Gianni...  

29/08/2008 | Legislation | Italy

The Nightguards’ post-war pains

Is it a "regurgitation of the war" that Mehir feels rise up in his stomach, reaching his head and heart? Or is it merely "matrimonial empathy", the same sickness that his wife has been suffering...  

29/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Critics’ Week

Cold Lunch’s chilling stories

"Nobody wants to be alone, do they?" says young Heidi on the phone to her mother. Her husband mistreats her, abandons her and their baby of a few months and, once reconciled with her, makes love...  

28/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Critics’ Week/Norway

Les héritières de Riz amer à Toronto

Le prochain Festival de Toronto (4-13 septembre) présentera en avant-première mondiale Di madre in figlia, d'Andrea Zambelli. C'est le seul documentaire sélectionné pour l'événement, qui...  

20/08/2008 | Festivals | Italie

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