Emanuele Basso
75 articles available in total starting from 02/09/2021. Last article published on 11/09/2023.
Interview: Keti Stamo • Director of Sons of Cain
"Dreams were the perfect antidote to whisk these children away to a different reality"
VENICE 2021: The director has crafted a dreamlike documentary that calls into question the strict nature of the Kanun, the ancient Albanian code which dictates a blood-for-blood approach
Interview: Ciro De Caro • Director of Giulia
"I love unusual, complex characters who are on the fringes, and I recognise myself in their madness"
VENICE 2021: The Italian director is presenting his new film, which centres on a young woman who, one scorching summer in Rome, searches for her place in the world in her own particular way
Interview: Alessandro Gassmann • Director of The Great Silence
"It's a story of things unsaid, and silences work much better in cinema than they do in theatre"
VENICE 2021: The Italian actor-director brings Maurizio De Giovanni's stage play of the same name to the big screen, in which a once well-off family is forced to face up to their own secrets
Interview: Monica Stan, George Chiper-Lillemark • Directors of Immaculate
"I needed a different perspective because I was very close to the story"
VENICE 2021: Set in a drug rehabilitation clinic, the debut film by the duo has received the GdA Director’s Award in the Giornate degli Autori and the Lion of the Future for a Debut Film
Interview: Dina Amer • Director of You Resemble Me
"My mission as a filmmaker was to go beyond the incorrect reporting of the news"
VENICE 2021: The Egyptian-American journalist presents a potent, dramatic film that explores the roots of the trauma suffered by a young Maghrebi woman and a decision that will shake the whole world
Interview: Aly Muritiba • Director of Private Desert
"If you open your mind, it's possible to love in another way"
VENICE 2021: The Brazilian director presents his new film about a policeman desperately travelling in search of his lover, whom he met via internet chat and who is no longer replying to his messages
