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Arras 2024


56 articles available in total starting from 29/01/2024. Last article published on 19/11/2024.

Stijn Bouma • Director of The Hunt for Meral O.

Interview: Stijn Bouma • Director of The Hunt for Meral O.

“I realised that as a society, we hadn’t understood what had happened at all: the devastation of lives”

The Dutch filmmaker explains why he wanted to transpose into fiction the dramatic, Kafkaesque story that opposed his country to many families forced into corners  

19/11/2024 | Arras 2024

A Brighter Word Than Bright claims victory at Arras Days

A Brighter Word Than Bright claims victory at Arras Days

The project by Turkey’s Belkis Bayrak scooped the Arras Film Festival’s main development grant, while Bulgarian Nadejda Koseva’s Fleur de sel also triumphed  

18/11/2024 | Arras 2024 | Arras Days/Awards

Honeymoon triumphs at Arras

Honeymoon triumphs at Arras

Ukrainian Zhanna Ozirna bags the Golden Atlas, while Romania’s Bogdan Mureșanu scoops the Silver Atlas for Best Director thanks to The New Year That Never Came  

18/11/2024 | Arras 2024 | Awards

Bogdan Mureşanu • Director of The New Year That Never Came

Interview: Bogdan Mureşanu • Director of The New Year That Never Came

“I wanted to make a ‘feel good’ movie”

The filmmaker decrypts his virtuoso and joyful tragicomedy made of six intertwined stories over 24 hours, at the turn of the 1989 Romanian revolution  

18/11/2024 | Arras 2024

REPORT: Arras Days 2024

REPORT: Arras Days 2024

Iveta Grófová, Belkis Bayrak, Vuk Rsumovic, Veronika Lišková and Eva Neymann are notably in the running for aid grants, while five projects form the basis of the Czech Republic Focus  

15/11/2024 | Arras 2024 | Arras Days

Marcin Koszałka • Director of White Courage

Interview: Marcin Koszałka • Director of White Courage

“What’s always interested me is people put in extraordinary circumstances”

The Polish filmmaker traces the genesis of a very ambitious film that blends together the great History and the small one, collaboration and resistance, adventure, family and love  

15/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Review: The Hunt for Meral O.

Review: The Hunt for Meral O.

Stijn Bouma delivers a poignant and highly engaged first fiction film about the scandalous oppression of a woman of Turkish origin by the Dutch authorities  

15/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Review: White Courage

Review: White Courage

Polish director Marcin Koszałka delivers an impressive work about a dark and little-known moment in history when blood ties were sorely tested  

14/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Review: Year of the Widow

Review: Year of the Widow

Filmmaker Veronika Lišková steps into fiction filmmaking, tracing the quiet yet resilient journey of a woman reshaping her life in the wake of unexpected loss  

14/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Review: Raw Material

Review: Raw Material

Good intentions based upon justice sometimes have unpredictable consequences, as Hungarian director Martin Boross’ first feature film cleverly reveals  

13/11/2024 | Arras 2024

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