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49 articles available in total starting from 09/12/2024. Last article published on 10/02/2025.

Lois Patiño • Director of Ariel

Interview: Lois Patiño • Director of Ariel

“My desire was to work in this double experience of reality and fiction, and explore the way they mix”

The Galician director reflects on his fourth feature, a meta-cinematic exploration of Shakespeare’s theatre threading together many of his previous preoccupations  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

Wilhelm Sasnal • Director of The Assistant

Interview: Wilhelm Sasnal • Director of The Assistant

“Robert Walser wrote about the uncertainty of tomorrow, about dependence on the employer – it’s very modern”

One of Poland’s most successful artists has put a modern spin on a 1908 novel in a new film that he co-directed with Anka Sasnal  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: The Rhine Gold

Review: The Rhine Gold

Lorenzo Pullega's debut feature is a dream-like ode to rural Italy, boasting great visuals but lacking cohesion  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Pirjo Honkasalo • Director of Orenda

Interview: Pirjo Honkasalo • Director of Orenda

"My films have stories, but they are born when making the film – they are never the purpose of making the film"

The storied director talks about her approach to managing the sacred, solitude and silence in her newest feature, a pensive character-driven tale about two women connected in unexpected ways  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Albert Oehlen • Director of Bad Painter

Interview: Albert Oehlen • Director of Bad Painter

“I can make fun of myself”

The German painter talks us through his film, in which he takes a jab at the art world – and himself  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Acts of Love

Review: Acts of Love

Jeppe Rønde returns to Rotterdam with a tense interpersonal drama about a woman in a New Age religious community confronted by the secrets held by her outsider brother  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

Review: Storm Alerts

Review: Storm Alerts

Bergur Bernburg presents a collage-like Icelandic docufiction, a formally fascinating but occasionally overly free-flying examination of defying biomedical diagnoses  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o morte! scoops IFFR’s Tiger Award

Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o morte! scoops IFFR’s Tiger Award

The Croatian helmer’s film also snagged the FIPRESCI Prize, whilst the two Special Jury Awards went to Sammy Baloji’s The Tree of Authenticity and Tim Ellrich’s In My Parents’ House  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Awards

Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

Interview: Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

"You can almost smell nostalgia, but you cannot smell film — that's why the nature elements are the closest to how you experience nostalgia in real life"

The filmmaker talked to us about her personal relationship to her script, casting decisions, and how she chose to portray nostalgia in her debut feature  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

Interview: Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

"I love observing conversations and people’s exchanges"

The director explains why he’s fascinated by groups and by the utopias which unfold within fleeting communities whose members all learn from one another  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Bright Future

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