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Susanne Gottlieb


170 articles available in total starting from 03/07/2018. Last article published on 23/04/2025.

Andres Veiel • Director of Riefenstahl

Interview: Andres Veiel • Director of Riefenstahl

“It is not just a finished life story, but a warning for the future”

VENICE 2024: The German director discusses Leni Riefenstahl’s efforts to rewrite her own history while digging herself an even deeper grave  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Peter Kerekes  • Director of Wishing on a Star

Interview: Peter Kerekes • Director of Wishing on a Star

“This film is not about sound or image; it’s about energy”

VENICE 2024: Can spending your birthday under the right star constellation really help you reach your goals in life? The Slovak-Hungarian director tells us more  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Wishing on a Star

Review: Wishing on a Star

VENICE 2024: In his heartfelt but entertaining documentary, Peter Kerekes follows a Neapolitan astrologer and her customers on their path to finding new meaning in life  

01/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Amos Gitai • Director of Why War

Interview: Amos Gitai • Director of Why War

“I would like to embrace the idea of the filmmaker or the artist as a healer”

VENICE 2024: The Israeli director offers a kaleidoscopic film essay on war, fuelled by a historic exchange of letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: Why War

Review: Why War

VENICE 2024: In his philosophical film essay, Israeli director Amos Gitai tries to explore the root of mankind’s lust for war and destruction  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: Peacock

Review: Peacock

VENICE 2024: In his feature debut, Austrian director Bernhard Wenger satirises the societal construct of a personality, making full use of the understated acting by Albrecht Schuch  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: Riefenstahl

Review: Riefenstahl

VENICE 2024: Andres Veiel creates a complex breakdown of German director Leni Riefenstahl’s life and examines how effective people are at trying to rewrite history  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: The Song of Others – A Search for Europe

Review: The Song of Others – A Search for Europe

Vadim Jendreyko goes looking for the high ideal of Europe in this hybrid film blending personal video essay and documentary  

08/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Special Screenings

Zhengfan Yang • Director of Stranger

Interview: Zhengfan Yang • Director of Stranger

“I don't need to belong to a certain place or country”

The Chinese-born director homes in on the hotel room as a non-space and epicentre of non-belonging  

08/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Review: Banzo

Review: Banzo

In Margarida Cardoso’s feature, a mysterious illness is befalling the workers on a remote African island  

05/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

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