Emanuele Basso
75 articles available in total starting from 02/09/2021. Last article published on 11/09/2023.
Interview: Julia von Heinz, Olivier Guerpillon, Jaco Van Dormael and Michael Winterbottom • Directors of Isolation
"We pretend to be in control, but we're not controlling anything"
VENICE 2021: The directors took part in the anthology documentary, in which they each recount the effects of the pandemic on their respective countries
Interview: Federica Di Giacomo • Director of Il palazzo
"An extremely free and creative environment, but one that's completely detached from reality"
VENICE 2021: The winner of the Orizzonti Award in 2016 returns to the Lido with her new opus, which follows a group of friends, an eclectic bunch of artists, who come together again after many years
Interview: Stefano Sardo • Director of With or Without You
"The end of a relationship is a testament to how those two people loved each other"
VENICE 2021: The screenwriter of successful films and series presents his first fiction film as a director, in which a couple lovingly break up after many years together
Interview: Ameer Fakher Eldin • Director of The Stranger
"It's a character study of a man who is a stranger in his own community"
VENICE 2021: Fifty years after the Israeli occupation of the territories of the Golan Heights, the director depicts the inner conflict of a man who desires a different life
Interview: Michale Boganim • Director of The Forgotten Ones
"There is a whole segment of the population that was abandoned during the construction of Israel"
VENICE 2021: The French-Israeli director helms a road movie exploring the past and meeting the various generations of the Mizrahim, or Jews from the Arab countries
Interview: Alessandro Capitani • Director of I nostri fantasmi
"The key to this film is that in life, you always get a second chance"
VENICE 2021: The writer-director talks to us about his film, which tells the story of a father and his young son who hide away in the attic of a house, pretending to be ghosts
Interview: Bianca Stigter • Director of Three Minutes - A Lengthening
"I got the chance to pay my respects to all the people that we see in the movie"
VENICE 2021: The Dutch historian uses an amateur clip lasting three minutes, filmed in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland, as her starting point to craft a work with a strong emotional impact
