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Savina Petkova


172 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2023. Last article published on 27/05/2025.

Review: Little Trouble Girls

Review: Little Trouble Girls

BERLINALE 2025: Debuting director Urška Djukić offers up a fresh and beguiling take on the female coming-of-age story  

14/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Perspectives

Review: The Light

Review: The Light

BERLINALE 2025: Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer opens this year’s festival with a didactic mix of sci-fi and social criticism  

13/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Berlinale Special

Sacha Amaral • Director of The Pleasure Is Mine

Interview: Sacha Amaral • Director of The Pleasure Is Mine

“I’ve always had in mind an ambiguous character who doesn’t know the meaning of his path yet but wants something”

The Buenos Aires-based Brazilian director discusses the desires and motivations of his enigmatic 20-year-old protagonist  

28/11/2024 | Gijón 2024

Pelayo Muñiz Cabal • Director of Boreal

Interview: Pelayo Muñiz Cabal • Director of Boreal

“We wanted the viewer to ask themselves: ‘Who am I, and how many different people can I be?’”

With his sci-fi feature debut, the Asturian director zooms in on a family that falls apart under strange circumstances  

28/11/2024 | Gijón 2024

Anna Recalde Miranda • Director of Green Is the New Red

Interview: Anna Recalde Miranda • Director of Green Is the New Red

“The label of activism is the best one in the world”

The Italian-Paraguayan director analyses her sharp, critical look at Paraguay’s political past and present  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Lidija Zelovic • Director of Home Game

Interview: Lidija Zelovic • Director of Home Game

“When you’ve lived through a political disaster, you no longer see politics as something that happens during the evening news”

We sat down to chat to the director about her film, which constitutes a warning against sweeping politics under the rug  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: The Pleasure Is Mine

Review: The Pleasure Is Mine

Brazilian director Sacha Amaral’s debut feature is a vibrant portrait of a young man who desires nothing and everything at the same time  

27/11/2024 | Gijón 2024

Eliza Petkova • Director of Silent Observers

Interview: Eliza Petkova • Director of Silent Observers

“I was questioning the idea that we’re more intelligent than, or simply superior to, the animal world”

The Bulgarian director discusses the joys and surprises of working with animals during the making of her new hybrid documentary  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Boreal

Review: Boreal

The debut feature by Asturian director Pelayo Muñiz Cabal brings the Northern Lights to Madrid  

27/11/2024 | Gijón 2024

Hong Sang-soo's By the Stream named Best Film at the 62nd Gijón Film Festival

Hong Sang-soo's By the Stream named Best Film at the 62nd Gijón Film Festival

Movies by Boris Lojkine, Marta Mateus, Matthias Glasner, and Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu were also among the winners of this year’s Asturian film gathering  

25/11/2024 | Gijón 2024 | Awards

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