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2248 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 24/04/2025.

Cannes’ Official Selection welcomes 16 new titles into the fold

Cannes’ Official Selection welcomes 16 new titles into the fold

Lynne Ramsay and Saeed Roustaee join the competition; Anna Cazenave Cambet, Pedro Pinho and Kristen Stewart are in Un Certain Regard; Hlynur Pálmason, Kôji Fukada and Lav Diaz for Cannes Première  

24/04 | Cannes 2025

Cannes welcomes 19 contenders for the Palme d’Or

Cannes welcomes 19 contenders for the Palme d’Or

The festival presents a blend of safe bets and new faces in the competition, with three former winners, nine filmmakers having previously taken part and seven new entries  

10/04 | Cannes 2025

Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

“My work finds its truth when we move beyond forms of storytelling that are inherently always fictitious”

The acclaimed Copenhagen-based US filmmaker speaks about his fiction debut, a fierce indictment of our collective gravitation towards bystanderism and self-deception  

28/03 | /Denmark/Germany/Ireland/Italy/UK/Sweden

Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani • Directors of Reflection in a Dead Diamond

Interview: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani • Directors of Reflection in a Dead Diamond

"We approached the story as if it were a diamond and gave it different facets"

We met with the inspired filmmaking duo to talk about their latest film effort, a frenetic and psychedelic rereading of the Hero myth  

06/03 | Luxembourg 2025

Frédéric Hambalek • Director of What Marielle Knows

Interview: Frédéric Hambalek • Director of What Marielle Knows

"What would happen if starting from now, very suddenly, the privacy is gone?"

BERLINALE 2025: The German director delves into his new film, in which he follows a mother and a father whose child is able to hear and see everything that they say or do – even when she isn't around  

22/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Dag Johan Haugerud • Director of Dreams (Sex Love)

Interview: Dag Johan Haugerud • Director of Dreams (Sex Love)

"When you tell me about your life, I will perceive it in a completely different way than you do"

BERLINALE 2025: The Norwegian director discusses his Golden Bear winning film, the last installment of his trilogy, which demonstrates hierarchies have no place in love (or sex or dreams)  

22/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Johanna Moder  • Director of Mother's Baby

Interview: Johanna Moder • Director of Mother's Baby

"My character is going through loneliness, emptiness and the disappointment of motherhood"

BERLINALE 2025: The Austrian director details the making of her film about a mother struggling to accept her son as her own, conveying the suspense of the story and working with babies on set  

22/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams (Sex Love) bags the Berlinale Golden Bear

Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams (Sex Love) bags the Berlinale Golden Bear

BERLINALE 2025: The 75th edition also saw the triumph of Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail, Iván Fund's The Message and Radu Jude’s Kontinental '25, among other titles with European involvement  

22/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Awards

Review: Timestamp

Review: Timestamp

BERLINALE 2025: Kateryna Gornostai’s mosaic-like, simultaneously sober and emotional observational documentary depicts school life across war-torn Ukraine  

21/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Review: The Safe House

Review: The Safe House

BERLINALE 2025: Lionel Baier delivers an atypical, colourful and high-energy film which sees history crossing paths with the story of an eccentric family in their Parisian apartment in May ‘68  

20/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

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