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Savina Petkova


170 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2023. Last article published on 22/05/2025.

Review: Fire of Wind

Review: Fire of Wind

The first feature by Marta Mateus, a wonderful form of cinematic reminiscence, shines bright in the race for the Golden Leopard  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Sara Fgaier • Director of Weightless

Interview: Sara Fgaier • Director of Weightless

"The possibility of radically changing your life after a loss has to do with memory"

The experienced editor and producer tells us about her debut feature as director and the connection between memories and cinema  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Ben Rivers • Director of Bogancloch

Interview: Ben Rivers • Director of Bogancloch

"Oftentimes, you look at cinema and it's all about content, or all about the form, but I want them to work together in order to create a universe"

The British filmmaker tells us about his interest in repetition, as evidenced in his latest film, and his editing process  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Mar Coll • Director of Salve Maria

Interview: Mar Coll • Director of Salve Maria

"We wanted to make a moving film, instead of being critical or distant"

The Catalan filmmaker discusses her newest film, a genre-bending look at postpartum depression and the irrational aspects of motherhood  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino • Directors of Luce

Interview: Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino • Directors of Luce

“Marianna Fontana's face is the film's landscape”

The directing duo talks to Cineuropa about the film's spectacular lead and the archetypal figure she plays  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Luce

Review: Luce

The second film by directing duo Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino stars a wondrous Marianna Fontana as a young woman sublimating the loss of her father  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Gianluca Jodice • Director of The Flood

Interview: Gianluca Jodice • Director of The Flood

“Showing everything without indulging in sentimentalism meant taking a big risk, and I was perfectly aware of that”

The Naples-born director zooms in on the final months of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI’s lives during the French Revolution  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Sarajevo rounds off this year’s CineLink Drama selection

Sarajevo rounds off this year’s CineLink Drama selection

The full list of ten drama-series projects set to be presented during Sarajevo’s CineLink Industry Days later this month has now been revealed  

06/08/2024 | Sarajevo 2024 | CineLink Industry Days

Sarajevo appoints new head of CineLink, announces further projects

Sarajevo appoints new head of CineLink, announces further projects

Head of Industry Maša Marković will be joined by Ishak Jalimam as the new director of CineLink, taking over from Amra Bakšić Čamo  

05/08/2024 | Sarajevo 2024 | CineLink Industry Days

Victoria Verseau • Director of Trans Memoria

Interview: Victoria Verseau • Director of Trans Memoria

“The more I work with time, the less I understand it”

The Swedish artist and filmmaker talks about returning to Thailand and to her memories, and to the early stages of a (never-ending) transition  

09/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

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