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638 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 19/02/2026.

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun • Director of Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars

Interview: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun • Director of Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars

"When everything’s standardised, what matters are voices, music that’s different and dissonant"

BERLINALE 2026: The French-Chadian director discusses the genesis of his new film which interweaves legends and realism in the syncretic spirit typical of everyday life in that region  

19/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars

Review: Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars

BERLINALE 2026: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun explores the role and place of the wonderful and the invisible in a gloriously directed film which urges us to read between the lines  

19/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: A New Dawn

Review: A New Dawn

BERLINALE 2026: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya’s feature debut is a visually delicate anime that attempts to mix family mystery, environmental themes and adolescent turmoil  

19/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: My Wife Cries

Review: My Wife Cries

BERLINALE 2026: Angela Schanelec delivers an utterly singular film on the subjects of infidelity and love, achieved with austerity, humour and emotion  

18/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Emin Alper  • Director of Salvation

Interview: Emin Alper • Director of Salvation

“If a country enters a murderous phase, external pressures, like global public opinion and the actions of other states, can set limits”

BERLINALE 2026: The Turkish helmer gives us the low-down on his powerful parable about human fear and hatred, set in remote areas of his home country  

17/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Hanna Bergholm  • Director of Nightborn

Interview: Hanna Bergholm • Director of Nightborn

“It’s important for art to venture out of its comfort zone because that’s how we experience and discover something new”

BERLINALE 2026: The director breaks down the central themes of her peculiar horror flick, and discusses the governmental cuts for art and culture in her native Finland  

16/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Ilker Çatak  • Director of Yellow Letters

Interview: Ilker Çatak • Director of Yellow Letters

“It was a process of fine-tuning it so that half of the audience would side with the male character and the other half with the female one”

BERLINALE 2026: The German helmer unpicks his second feature, about a couple targeted by the state and struggling to balance their ideals with life’s necessities  

16/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: Salvation

Review: Salvation

BERLINALE 2026: A dormant feud between two Kurdish tribes reawakens in Emin Alper’s careful and consistent examination of how hatred, paranoia and tribalism take root  

15/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: Nightborn

Review: Nightborn

BERLINALE 2026: Being a parent is horrifying in the literal sense in Hanna Bergholm’s film, which offers more than just an exercise in genre and improves over its running time  

15/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Alain Gomis • Director of Dao

Interview: Alain Gomis • Director of Dao

"A film can be compelling without necessarily relying on that slightly caricatural kind of dramaturgy we’re often pushed into creating”

BERLINALE 2026: The Franco-Senegalese filmmaker discusses his largely non-narrative film, moving back and forth between Guinea-Bissau and France  

14/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

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