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699 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 18/09/2026.

Review: Les Misérables

Review: Les Misérables

Fred Cavayé delivers a new adaptation of Victor Hugo’s celebrated popular novel, modernising its ambitions and placing it at the crossroads of melodrama and action cinema  

18/09 | San Sebastián 2026 | Competition

Yesim Ustaoğlu • Director of What Remains

Interview: Yesim Ustaoğlu • Director of What Remains

"The main character strives for a kind of purity that allows her to be herself and to fear nothing"

The Turkish filmmaker sheds light on her new movie, centred on a woman who takes to the road to try to find herself  

16/09 | San Sebastián 2026 | Competition

Ilya Khrzhanovsky • Director of Dau

Interview: Ilya Khrzhanovsky • Director of Dau

“Physicists can see invisible things and make them, in a way, visible”

VENICE 2026: The director of the controversial project describes how this surprising new instalment came about and once again emphasises his support for Ukraine in the war against Russia  

15/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Nicolas Pariser • Director of One Minute to Midnight

Interview: Nicolas Pariser • Director of One Minute to Midnight

"I decided to explore a character carrying out an investigation that’s actually an investigation of himself"

VENICE 2026: The French filmmaker explains why he went against prevailing narrative conventions to reflect on male-female relations  

11/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Paolo Strippoli • Director of The Spiral

Interview: Paolo Strippoli • Director of The Spiral

“You can express yourself freely within the codes of horror”

VENICE 2026: The young Italian director tells us how he turned a family drama into a horror flick in order to broach the theme of control  

11/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Review: One Minute to Midnight

Review: One Minute to Midnight

VENICE 2026: Nicolas Pariser devises a charming, politically tinged ramble centred on a man in the mirror who wakes up to his past  

10/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Stéphane Brizé • Director of A Good Little Soldier

Interview: Stéphane Brizé • Director of A Good Little Soldier

"The cynicism of the system has reached such staggering levels that comedy probably results in a better reflection of reality"

VENICE 2026: The French filmmaker unpacks his new film, which examines the mechanics of oppression at work and willing servitude on a human scale  

10/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Review: A Good Little Soldier

Review: A Good Little Soldier

VENICE 2026: In a relentless gut-punch of a film, Stéphane Brizé dissects the inner workings of contemporary corporate culture, entrusting Alba Rohrwacher with a major role  

09/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Review: Dau

Review: Dau

VENICE 2026: The latest film from Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s controversy-ridden project is a sweeping, terrifying character study of Lev Landau, the Soviet nuclear physicist  

09/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

Review: Bunker

Review: Bunker

VENICE 2026: In Florian Zeller’s relationship drama, a husband and wife have to reexamine their bond when dubious career opportunities and fear for the future threaten to engulf them  

08/09 | Venice 2026 | Competition

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